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Originally Posted by Sigaven
Rich person once again gets special treatment.
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I suppose this is only true here to the extent that he's willing to pay his attorneys to continue appealing (while losing every step of the way).
I dug into this a bit, since the KXAN article (unsurprisingly) doesn't link to court dockets themselves. In essence, Paul appealed this 10-day sentence to the intermediate appellate court (in Austin, the Third Court of Appeals), and lost. He then appealed to the Texas Supreme Court, granted the appeal but ultimately rejected his arguments last week.
The only reason for the current stay is that Paul is now asking for them to hold off while he appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.
There haven't yet been any decisions (in this case) where I think Paul is getting special treatment, or where anything out of the ordinary is happening. It's moreso just that most people aren't willing to blow the money to continue appealing these points -- Particularly on the issues Paul is trying to argue here.
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