The city attorney is attempting to retake the cases against more than 200 immigrants who have been charged with criminal violence after an El Paso County prosecutor at law dismissed them.
These incidents involve the obscene border wall incident on March 21 in El Paso, where workers forced their way past Texas Army National Guard obstacles and rushed the roof.
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks announced on Thursday that his company would file an appeal against the judge’s ruling, alleging that it was illegal.
El Paso County Court at Law Judge Ruben Morales ruled on Wednesday that the prosecutor had no authority to decide the case because the district judge improperly sent the cases up to the state courts.
On Thursday, Hicks emphasized that monitoring was not on his business.
” I want to make this clear because it’s been suggested that somehow it was a lost for our company, for the district attorney’s office”, Hicks said. ” And that’s not a proper notion or statement. The District Attorney’s Office or any other legal body have no influence over this procedure.
Hicks added that his company believes that the city and region courts should have transferred their cases. He claimed that no appropriate documents or notices were given to his business before they were summoned to court.
The DA’s office’s effort to prosecute these criminal cases with a great judge is a waste of resources, according to El Paso County Public Defender Kelli Childress, who represents migrants in these cases, according to a statement released on Wednesday.
Hicks claimed that Childress ‘ company has been providing them with information requests that are unrelated to defending their clients and determining whether they are guilty or not.
