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Carol S. Vance is a former district attorney of Harris County (Houston), Texas, who served in that office from 1966 to 1979, and a former board member of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, which governs the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Vance was born in 1933. For a period Vance was a resident of the Westbury area of Houston.〔Vance, Carol S. ''Boomtown DA''. Whitecaps Media, 2010. 3. ISBN 978-0-9826353-1-5 .〕 In 1992, Governor of Texas Ann Richards named Vance as the head of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.〔"(Richards picks new chairman for criminal justice board )." ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''. October 15, 1992. 26 Texas. Retrieved on July 30, 2010.〕 Vance attended Houston public schools and graduated from the law school at the University of Texas in Austin. He served as Harris County assistant district attorney in 1958, shortly after graduating from law school, first under Dan Walton and then under Frank Briscoe. He was appointed by Governor of Texas John Connally to fill the vacated district attorney’s spot when Frank Briscoe resigned to run for Congress in 1966 (Briscoe lost to Republican George H. W. Bush). At age 32, he became the second-youngest district attorney in Harris County history (only 21-year-old Peter Gray, chosen in 1842, was younger). He ran in the next election and won the position in his own right. Vance served as district attorney from 1966 until resigning in 1979. He was unopposed in each of his elections. ==Trials== Some of the trials Vance was involved in, either as prosecutor or as district attorney, include the Elmer Wayne Henley/Houston mass murder case, the Joan Robinson Hill/John Hill murder cases, the Deep Throat v. Vance Supreme Court case, the Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Yarbrough impeachment case, the Lee Otis Johnson marijuana possession case, the Texas Southern University riot prosecutions, and the District Judge Garth Bates case. Vance was known for his work in running a large DA’s office and many of his contributions have been emulated by other prosecutors’ offices around the country. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carol Vance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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