Texans know very little about the Court of Criminal Appeals, but it must be reformed. The Court once ruled in favor of a man charged with drowning his wife because prosecutors neglected to say what she’d drowned in. The Court’s approach forgets that an individual crime is a violent eruption that shatters lives. Enough is enough; only criminals and inefficiency would suffer in the Court’s absence.
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Veritas April 2018
This issue of Veritas, the quarterly publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, features solutions to correctly measure poverty, introduces the Texas Prosperity Promise, explores whether free college is a good idea, a farewell from our CEO Brooke Rollins, an introduction of Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and the Booker T. Washington Initiative, and recaps the 2018 Policy Orientation and Visionaries Meeting.
April 4, 2018