State Sen. John Whitmire chairs the committee and was tasked by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to look at the state’s laws around the exhaust emission control device after Deputy Darren Almendarez was killed last year.
State Sen. John Whitmire of Houston chairs the committee and was tasked by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick to look at the state’s laws around the exhaust emission control device after an off-duty Harris County sheriff’s deputy was killed last year.
The suspects, Joshua Stewart, Fredarius Clark, and Fredrick Tardy, all remain in jail and were charged with capital murder. “The technical part of the current law is you have to have documentation that someone filed a complaint that their CC was stolen, and you’ve got to tie it to the ones that the outlaws have. Now, no, no, no, the burden is on them to prove that they’re not a thief. That should go a long way towards prosecution,” he said.
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