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Bill D. Hicks: “Neither the public defender's office nor the district…”

Featuring: Bill D. Hicks, Republican | El Paso County District Attorney | Texas

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El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks addresses riot migrant cases in a press conference.

Published | Video Starts at 19:09

And why didn't we go to another judge? Because in the Council of Judges, they assigned those cases to that judge. So we don't have. Neither the public defender's office nor the district attorney's office have any control over how the Council of Judges makes the assignment on cases. You have anything else? Sorry, before you answer that, how rare is it to have a misdemeanor cases where it's dismissed, reindicted. Dismissed, reindicted. And now how rare is this? (19:09–19:19)

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Asserts that the assignment of cases is controlled by the Council of Judges.

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