HOUSTON – A federal judge has denied the government’s request to suspend an order releasing a key witness in the deadly ICE shooting in Houston’s Magnolia Park neighborhood.
In an order signed Monday, Aug. 3, U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison ruled that José Trinidad Rojas Pliego can remain free while the federal government appeals his release to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
“The Court’s prior order for release remains in effect,” Ellison wrote…