The Latest Breaking News from Ralph Petty

Moonlighting Midland Prosecutor Means Freedom for Samuel Sanchez

“He just cried. He was just overwhelmed with emotion.”

Texas Observer · Jun 26, 2025

Can This Woman Sue the Rogue Prosecutor Who Allegedly Helped Upend Her Life?

Prosecutor Ralph Petty was also employed as a law clerk—by the same judges he argued before.

Reason · May 16, 2024

5th Circuit Reluctantly Rules Against Victim of a Prosecutor Who Was Also a Law Clerk

Ralph Petty's "conflicted dual-hat arrangement" as an advocate and an adjudicator was "utterly bonkers," Judge Don Willett notes.

Reason · Dec 18, 2023

Lillie Petty, union organizer who ‘changed the face of labor in Chicago and nationally,’ dead at 76

A founding member of Local 880 of the Service Employees International Union, she helped it grow into the largest union local in the Midwest and seventh-largest SEIU local nationally.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 4, 2022