Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 2A.105
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 2A.105, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 2A.105. GROUNDS FOR DISQUALIFICATION.
Official statutory text
(a) A district attorney may not represent the state in a criminal case in which the attorney has been, before the attorney's election, employed adversely to the state.
(b) A district or county attorney may not:
(1) be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in any court; or
(2) after the attorney ceases to be a district or county attorney, be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in which the attorney has been of counsel for the state.
(c) A judge of a court in which a district or county attorney represents the state shall declare the attorney disqualified for purposes of Article 2A.104 on a showing that the attorney is the subject of a criminal investigation by a law enforcement agency if that investigation is based on credible evidence of criminal misconduct for an offense that is within the attorney's authority to prosecute. A disqualification under this subsection applies only to the attorney's access to the criminal investigation pending against the attorney and to any prosecution of a criminal charge resulting from that investigation.
(b) A district or county attorney may not:
(1) be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in any court; or
(2) after the attorney ceases to be a district or county attorney, be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in which the attorney has been of counsel for the state.
(c) A judge of a court in which a district or county attorney represents the state shall declare the attorney disqualified for purposes of Article 2A.104 on a showing that the attorney is the subject of a criminal investigation by a law enforcement agency if that investigation is based on credible evidence of criminal misconduct for an offense that is within the attorney's authority to prosecute. A disqualification under this subsection applies only to the attorney's access to the criminal investigation pending against the attorney and to any prosecution of a criminal charge resulting from that investigation.
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