A justice of the peace may reopen an inquest if, based on information provided by a credible person or facts within the knowledge of the justice of the peace, the justice of the peace determines that reopening the inquest may reveal a different cause or different circumstances of death.
Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 49.041
REOPENING AN INQUEST
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 897, Sec. 1, eff
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