Ken Paxton’s securities fraud trial will remain in Houston, court rules

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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling overturns lower-court decisions that had moved the case back to Collin County, where the suspended attorney general lives.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton giving a speech in the Senate chamber during his swearing-in ceremony in January.

Texas’ highest criminal court ruled Wednesday that the securities fraud case against now-suspended Attorney General’s should remain in Houston, settling a key issue in the 8-year-old case as Paxton faces an impeachment trial in the Texas Senate this summer. However, the Texas Constitution and state law protected the judge’s authority over the case, the court ruled.

 

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