101. Each week Jordan solves complex murder cases by closely examining scientific evidence. 102. Each office is currently handling a first-degree murder case in which a sentencing decision is pending. 103. Earlier this year, Circuit Judge Edward Garrison, the chief judge in the criminal division, decided to offer murder cases to the lowest bidding attorney. 104. Earlier this week, state District Judge Don Leonard questioned potential jurors at the Comal County Courthouse about what they have seen and heard regarding the murder case. 105. Erwin Chemerinsky, a University of Southern California law professor, said it practically is unheard of for bail to be granted in a murder case. 106. Even in murder cases the typical defendant has an assigned lawyer who is paid little and is given no money to hire experts. 107. Either way, murder cases here might have become the terrain of intense political battles. 108. Faced with the same concern in the Senate, Ellis said judges in other non-capital murder cases already can overrule juries. 109. Favors capital punishment in murder cases and for international drug trafficking. 110. Everyone wants to talk to the stocky, soft-spoken, dark-haired man, who cracked the Tucker-Garrett murder case. |