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30 Jan 2019, 8:38 am by [email protected]
The news channel also spoke to Steven Halpert, the juvenile division chief for the Harris County public defender’s office. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 1:12 pm by Cynthia Alkon
Last night during my seminar on Advanced Issues in Criminal Justice I had the two wonderful guest speakers—from the Public Defender’s office in Dallas County and the District Attorney’s Office in Tarrant County. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 8:56 am by [email protected]
He was jailed in Dallas County and is being held in lieu of $1.25 million bail. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 8:56 am by [email protected]
He was jailed in Dallas County and is being held in lieu of $1.25 million bail. [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 3:52 am by Michael Lowe
  Here in Dallas, you most likely taken down to Lew Sterrett, the big Dallas County Jail down on West Commerce. [read post]
27 Mar 2020, 10:16 am by Michael Lowe
As of March 26, 2020, Dallas County reported four more inmates tested positive for COVID-19. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 1:36 pm by Jose Medina
Cities and counties will have to expend scarce resources (your local tax dollars) to defend against such lawsuits. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 12:25 pm by Steve Hall
Day 3 - Tuesday, December 22, 2009A Public Option: Little-used county office one choice in curbing indigent defense costsStudies have consistently shown a public defender’s office can do the same work cheaper than court-appointed, private attorneys. [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 1:04 pm
Clements of the San Francisco City Attorney's office presented the County's argument. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 2:37 pm
Diane Jennings writes, "Attonrey general defends actions in investigation of affair between judge, DA," in today's Dallas Morning News.The state's top lawyer said Thursday that he had expected Texas courts to "step up and do the right thing" by investigating an affair between the judge and prosecutor in the trial of condemned killer Charles Dean Hood. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 11:17 am by Michael Lowe
According to Judge Hasette (quoting from her order), here’s what the prosecutors from the Nueces County District Attorney’s Office did: “The court concludes that the intentional suppression of evidence and lack of timely disclosure of exculpatory, mitigating and impeachment evidence described herein constitutes prosecutorial misconduct and undermines the confidence of the public in the judicial system, and the outcome of this trial specifically. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 1:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
In one case in San Antonio, a false conviction was overturned when police did not turn over video evidence of an officer assaulting a handcuffed defendant; instead, the defendant had pled guilty to assaulting the officer! [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 2:07 am
I expect slow, steady progress creating more public defender offices (#5), especially in rural areas, but it would take local leadership for more PD offices to get started in major metropolitan counties. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 9:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits' readers attention:Galveston sued over bail scheduleACLU has sued Galveston County over its bail schedule, adding that county to Harris and Dallas as bail litigation sites. [read post]
18 Feb 2013, 10:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The department denied wrongdoing and the state appealed the case.Waco judges nix public-defender ideaJudges in Waco said they would not assign cases to a proposed public-defender office, nixing the idea for a grant request to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission. [read post]
28 Jul 2017, 8:26 am by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
 Factually, an all-white jury in Black Hawk County convicted the defendant, a black man, of one count of harassment in the first degree, an aggravated misdemeanor. [read post]
19 May 2018, 10:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"There are about two dozen forensic hypnotists in Texas at this time, the majority of whom serve in the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Rangers. [read post]