Alcala v. Texas Webb County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a stay may be justified in order to prevent “exposing the defense theory to the prosecution in advance of trial, or otherwise prejudicing the criminal case”
• holding that “a stay may be justified in order to prevent ... exposing the defense’s theory to the prosecution in advance of trial, or otherwise prejudicing the criminal case”
• holding that “a stay may be justified in order to prevent . . . exposing the defense’s theory to the prosecution in advance of trial, or otherwise prejudicing the criminal case”
• quoting, in part, Sec. & Exch. Comm’n v. First Fin. Grp. of Tex., Inc., 659 F.2d 660, 668 (5th Cir. 1981)
• collecting district court cases within the Fifth Circuit that have applied this test
• collecting district court cases from within the Fifth Circuit applying these factors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).