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16 Aug 2011, 4:00 am
In El Paso, Texas, Pastor Tom Brown and his Word of Life Church are under investigation by El Paso County district attorney Jaime Esparza for violation of state election laws. [read post]
26 Oct 2008, 11:30 am
Counties can save big bucks by eliminating jail time for people who're never charged with a crime if District and County Attorneys implement a "direct filing" system on the front end.El Paso DA Jaime Esparza gave a presentation this week at a conference of the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense about his county's upgraded information management system (DIMS), which allows police to immediately file cases with the DA instead of having prosecutors wait to… [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 7:05 am
Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District of Texas. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 3:51 pm
"I do think it's an expensive process, but I do think it's also necessary," District Attorney Jaime Esparza said. [read post]
3 Dec 2006, 2:17 pm
LINKEl Paso District Attorney Jaime Esparza said prosecutors will support any laws that make it easier to punish sex offenders, but he doesn't think that juries are unjustly sentencing offenders to parole. [read post]
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5 Jan 2015, 9:48 am
El Paso DA Jaime Esparza says he is "monitoring" the case, whatever that means.Divvying up asset forfeiture fundsSee a new report (pdf) from the Office of Court Administration on state-county interactions over asset forfeiture. [read post]
21 Feb 2016, 5:09 am
The winner faces a Republican opponent in November.It's been pretty remarkable to see the Daniel Villegas false-confession case blow up on incumbent Jaime Esparza in the Democratic primary for El Paso County DA, with Villegas' chief public backer, a local businessman named John Mimbela, actively seeking to depose the incumbent.The Travis and Williamson County DA races are interesting spectacles but Grits sees few implications for justice reform based on the outcome. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 12:56 am
"We tried the co-defendant (Nava), and through that investigation and through the trial process and after discussing it with the complainant at length, it's clear to me there was insufficient evidence to continue prosecution against Amato," District Attorney Jaime Esparza said. [read post]
20 Jul 2019, 4:14 am
El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza and Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon both claim that they don’t need to test drugs to see if they are actually drugs. [read post]
20 Feb 2017, 3:14 pm
El Paso District Attorney, Jaime Esparza, said that while the woman in question has a criminal history, he is concerned about the access of federal law enforcement agents to the courthouse. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 12:24 pm
Perry's deputy general counsel Mary Anne Wiley, Bill Allison from the UT law school, Pat Johnson from the DPS Crime Lab, James McLaughlin of the Texas Police Chiefs Association, Dallas DA Craig Watkins, El Paso DA Jaime Esparza, state Rep. [read post]
20 Feb 2017, 3:14 pm
El Paso District Attorney, Jaime Esparza, said that while the woman in question has a criminal history, he is concerned about the access of federal law enforcement agents to the courthouse. [read post]
25 May 2010, 9:51 am
Commissioner Willie Gandara was absent on county business.Now the commissioners must begin the search for another medical examiner.District Attorney Jaime Esparza also is reviewing cases involving Shrode to see if convicts are likely to challenge his testimony. [read post]
16 Jan 2010, 4:50 am
There, because the county sheriff initially refused to use the direct filing system when DA Jaime Esparza first established it, for a time there existed a sort of natural comparison study that showed how much time can be saved: In direct-filed cases, prosecutors received offense reports within seven hours of an arrest; in cases processed with traditional methods, it took 19 days to get to that point, says Esparza. [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 3:26 pm
Rick Perry Bill Allison, director of the University of Texas Criminal Defense Clinic Pat Johnson, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Lab James McLaughlin, executive director of the Texas Police Chiefs Association Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza State Rep. [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 10:20 am
Preventing drug use could also help reduce the demand for narcotics that fuels cartel violence in Juarez and across Mexico, El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza said in a phone interview. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 5:07 am
In El Paso, too, DA Jaime Esparza told a conference at the Task Force on Indigent Defense that his office allows defense counsel to get access to case files within 24 hours, noting that it facilitated more routine cases getting disposed of within three days or less, reduced jail costs, overcrowding and liability, relieved court dockets, and even freed up space in the jail that's now leased out to house federal inmates and make extra money.We live under a justice system… [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 8:44 am
The new statute took effect Sept. 1, and is an acknowledgment that criminal law – rigid and, importantly, wedded to finality – must evolve to keep pace with scientific advances.The principal dispute, Smith reported, surrounds whether biomechanical research regarding child trauma is new science or merely old science re-packaged:El Paso District Attorney Jaime Esparza does not agree that Avila's case falls under the new law. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 5:33 am
Leaving her aside (and please, let's), that leaves Jaime Esparza of El Paso as the eminence gris among elected DAs from larger counties. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 5:25 am
El Paso DA Jaime Esparza told the integrity unit that information on his county's version of a do-not-sponsor list often comes from defense counsel.In non-civil service cities (the biggest are Dallas and El Paso), incomplete reporting about police disciplinary histories would eventually backfire because the bulk of disciplinary files are open records under the Public Information Act so often defense counsel can independently find them, if they try. [read post]
