MMA fighter Cedric Marks’ case prompts calls for changes to Texas’ protective order laws

Bell County Sheriff’s OfficeCedric Marks, 44, was charged with two counts of capital murder last month in connection to the homicides of Jenna Scott and Michael Swearingin. Scott, who was once Marks’ girlfriend, was denied a protection order against Marks the year before she was killed.

Last week family and friends of Scott and Swearingin met with state representative Hugh Shine in Temple, TX to discuss changes to legislation around Texas’ protective order laws.

Shine said (per Temple Daily Telegram) that the recently introduced Texas House Bill 629 already proposes changes to protective order laws, but that he would seek to amend that bill to address the concerns raised by Scott and…