Cantu, whose case was the subject of a popular true crime podcast and whose execution was halted just days before it was scheduled to take place in April, now may go back on the execution schedule.
Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, awaiting the start of a separate impeachment trial, is set to appear in a Houston courtroom Thursday to discuss his nearly decade-long delayed trial on securities fraud charges. It’s unclear if any decision will be made during the court hearing on when Paxton might finally go to trial on felony charges of defrauding investors in a tech startup. The case is back in a Houston courtroom after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld a decision last month by a judge who originally oversaw the case to move the proceedings out of Paxton’s hometown near Dallas.
The felony charges, related to private business dealings, have been pending since 2015 after a series of appeals. The development comes about a month before the suspended attorney general’s Senate impeachment trial.