Candidate · Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4
Kevin Patrick Yeary
What this job does: One of nine judges on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest court for criminal cases. It hears every death-penalty appeal and has the final word on what state criminal law means. A term is six years.
- Current office
- Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4 (since 2015)
- Occupation
- Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals
Background
- First elected to the Court of Criminal Appeals in 2014. source: texastribune.org
- Former appellate prosecutor in Dallas, Harris and Bexar counties, defense attorney in private practice, and law clerk to a Court of Criminal Appeals judge. source: texastribune.org
- Lone dissent in the court's 2021 ruling that the attorney general cannot unilaterally prosecute election cases. source: texastribune.org
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