Leach garnered 47,983 votes, or 60.86%, while Washington received 30,863 votes, according to unofficial early voting totals.

In the texts, Leach reportedly asked the judge to reconsider Roberson's case, whose execution has now been postponed.

Leach, one of the driving forces behind the effort to stop Roberson’s execution, later apologized to the unnamed judge, who ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is calling for the resignation of State Representative Jeff Leach after his admission to ...

The AG also said he’d make a criminal referral against the lawmaker, who apologized for texting a Court of Criminal Appeals ...

Leach, who serves as chair of the House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence, asked a Court of Criminal Appeals ...

Text messages appear to show the Republican state rep. from Plano asking one of the judges who rejected the death row ...

State Rep. Jeff Leach admitted to texting a judge in the Robert Roberson execution case, asking to reconsider the case.

"One Judge. That's all that's needed to simply say... Robert Roberson deserves a new trial," Leach wrote to a judge on the death row inmate's appeal.

The Texas AG's Office notified the Supreme Court about Rep. Jeff Leach's attempt to influence a judge in a death penalty case ...