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DA’s office cleared in Shipman case

By Bill Peterson | August 23rd, 2009 | Category: Cops & Courts, Hays County, Top Main, Top Stories | 2 comments

A state district court has found the Hays County District Attorney’s office free of impropriety in the case involving Shawn Nathan Shipman after a Writ of Habeas Corpus was denied in July and Shipman subsequently entered a guilty plea on Aug. 14.


Shipman writ denied, new trial to proceed

By Sean Wardwell | July 9th, 2009 | Category: Cops & Courts, Hays County, News, Top Main, Top Stories | 13 comments

The convoluted case of Shawn Nathan Shipman took another turn last week, when District Judge James F. Clawson Jr. denied Shipman’s Writ of Habeas Corpus. As a result, Shipman’s retrial will take place later this month. Shipman was granted a retrial after an assistant Hays County District Attorney alleged improprieties in his prosecution earlier this year.