Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s years-delayed trial on securities fraud charges will have to wait until his separate impeachment trial is concluded, lawyers and the judge in the case said Thursday during a court hearing in Houston.
Suspended and impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will face a judge in Houston today for a hearing related to his securities fraud charges. Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s years-delayed trial on securities fraud charges will have to wait until his separate impeachment trial is concluded, lawyers and the judge in the case said Thursday.
"What I would request is we come back after that case is resolved," said Dan Cogdell, one of Paxton’s attorneys. The request was supported by Brian Wice and Kent Schaffer, the special prosecutors appointed to the case.The Republican attorney general sat by himself on a bench as his lawyers and the prosecutors stood in front of Judge Beall. Paxton did not say anything during the hearing, which lasted about 10 minutes.
Wice said he shares the public’s frustration that the case has yet to go to trial. Paxton was indicted in 2015 on felony charges of defrauding investors in a tech startup. The case is back in a Houston courtroom after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld a decision last month by a judge who originally oversaw the case to move the proceedings out of Paxton’s hometown near Dallas. Paxton has spent years fighting to keep the trial in Collin County, where he maintains wide support among GOP activists and his wife, Angela Paxton, is a state senator.
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