Commenter Filio Scotia asked if we would post this query:
[T]the Riley Ann Sawyers “Baby Grace” murder case has ended up in Galveston, where a grand jury has indicted the little girl’s mother and stepfather on capital murder charges.
Excuse me, but didn’t this crime happen in Harris County? This “alleged” murder was committed in the suburb of Spring, in north Harris County. According to my understanding of such matters, that makes it a Harris County case, under the jurisdiction of the Harris District Courts.
It doesn’t matter where the body was disposed of and found. Unless the law has been changed, it’s where the crime was committed and the complainant died that determines jurisdiction for prosecution.
Anybody care to tackle this one?
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