The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday considered whether to alter its precedent that last year sank a lawsuit against a Texas county over its employment of a prosecutor who also worked as a judicial law clerk.
In the lawsuit, Erma Wilson alleges Midland County violated her due process rights by employing Ralph Petty as a prosecutor at the same time that,unknownto Wilson, he worked as a law clerk for the county judge who handled Wilson’s drug-possession case.
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