A wrongful termination lawsuit brought against a Texas district attorney came a day after the filing deadline, a state appeals court said Friday, ending the case without diving into allegations of illegal kickbacks and wrongful plea offers.
Whistleblower claims that prosecutor Jerry Phillips made against District Attorney Ori White, the top prosecutor in Pecos, Brewster, Jeff Davis, and Presidio counties in west Texas, needed to be filed within 90 days of the lawyer’s termination. They instead were brought 91 days after the firing, the Texas Court of Appeals, Third District said, reversing a trial court’s finding that they were ...
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