TO: | Honorable Abel Herrero, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence |
FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB3061 by Herrero (Relating to a limited exception to the prohibition on releasing personal information about a juror collected during the jury selection process in certain cases.), As Introduced |
The bill would amend the Code of Criminal Procedure Article 35.29 to allow defense counsel to disclose certain personal juror information to successor defense counsel representing the same defendant in a writ of habeas corpus capital punishment case without an application to the court or a showing of good cause. The bill would take effect September 1, 2013.
Source Agencies: | 212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council
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LBB Staff: | UP, AM, ESi
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