American lawyer and jurist, current U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Texas, appointed 2018
Minnesota seeks to have ICE agent Christian Castro extradited from Brownsville, Texas, where he is detained after a Minnesota arrest for assault and falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 shooting in Minneapolis. Texas law requires release after 90 days unless the case ripens; courts are weighing next steps as Abbott weighs whether to sign the warrant.