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13 Mar 2009, 10:55 am
It's been years, for example, since we burned anyone at the stake, and that punishment was generally reserved for witches and people who chose the wrong religion.With 123 exonerations since 1973 for people on death row, and a recent flurry of exonerations in Dallas, Texas, the debate has intensified. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 12:50 am
Baker Botts in Houston and Gardere Wynne Sewell in Dallas also felt the layoff pain. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 1:05 pm
"Appeals Judge Sharon Keller faces another challenge," is Dianne Jennings post on the Dallas Morning News crime blog.Challenges to Judge Sharon Keller on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals are mounting. [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 11:57 pm
Take a look for yourself at the actual plans discussed in the article from Travis County, Dallas County, and the 22 Southeastern Counties.Tomorrow (March 13) is bill filing deadline at the Texas Legislature so by the weekend perhaps we'll see some legislation filed implementing these concepts. [read post]
8 Mar 2009, 5:23 am
A Democratic attorney friend anonymously forwards me more gossip about possible Texas US Attorney candidates.I'd wondered why we'd heard no rumors about candidates in Texas' Eastern and Southern District, but apparently, in the Eastern District, at least, there's a reason: "there isn't a Congressional Delegation Committee for EDTX yet because there are no Dem Congressmen in that district. [read post]
7 Mar 2009, 6:14 am
Prabhakar to pay David Fitzgerald after a Dallas County jury found in Fitzgerald's favor in his medical malpractice lawsuit. [read post]
7 Mar 2009, 4:53 am
AGRICULTURAL EXCESS & SURPLUS INSURANCECOMPANY, N/K/A GREAT AMERICAN E & S INSURANCE COMPANY AND GREAT AMERICANINSURANCE COMPANY; from Dallas County; 5th district (05-05-00442-CV, 195 SW3d 764, 05-30-06) The Court reverses the court of appeals' judgment, renders judgment in part, and remands the case tothe trial court. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 5:45 am
There's an email making the rounds on county commissioners listservs that includes this striking tidbit from the Texas Association of Urban Counties' Donald Lee:Today, Chairman John Whitmire called me to inform me that consolidation of TYC and TJPC will not happen this session. [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 10:27 pm
According to Gromer Jeffers at the Dallas News: "former U.S. assistant attorneys Larry Jarrett, Terri Moore and Mike Snipes, and federal prosecutor Sarah Saldana," along with a relative unknown, Dallas lawyer Roger Williams (not the former GOP Texas Secretary of State) are all presently in the running.In the Western District, I've heard Travis County Attorney David Escamilla mentioned for the US Attorney slot, an appointment I would personally… [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 1:04 pm
Senator John Carona R- Dallas has introduced SB 298 and Representative Todd Smith R- Euless authored HB 169. [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 4:11 am
None of those individuals were immediately available, but in the meantime, one of his staffers forwarded me a proposal from Dallas juvie probation chief Mike Griffith [Correction: I'm now told by reliable sources this plan came from Travis County, not Dallas.] outlining in greater detail than I've heretofore seen the nuts and bolts of how new state funding might functionally supplement counties.This is easily the most detailed analysis of a possible alternative… [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 8:05 am
"Appeals court senior judge says Keller wasn't urged to resign," is the title of Steve McGonigle's report in today's Dallas Morning News.The senior judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Monday that he and his colleagues have urged Presiding Judge Sharon Keller to resign over allegations that she improperly blocked a last-minute plea to halt an execution. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 6:16 am
Here are excerpts from the article: The number of immigrant bodies – Mexican and those still unidentified – dealt with by the Mexican consulate in three South Texas counties rose 72 percent in 2008 over the previous year. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 7:57 pm
A significant difference in Texas is that much of the cost is borne by taxpayers of the counties that prosecute individual death penalty cases, as well as the related indigent defense costs. [read post]
28 Feb 2009, 9:47 am
Kaufman and Dallas County both have public defenders. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 8:25 am
The Johnson County district attorney later dropped the charges against Webb, he said, to avoid wasting county resources. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 12:24 pm
A Dallas County jury last week decided such a case, awarding $17.5 million to a former maintenance man for a North Dallas apartment complex who lost his arms and legs from a staph infection. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 10:33 am
View the article here 02/23/2009 By WENDY HUNDLEY / The Dallas Morning News The number of women serving time in Texas prisons for having sex with minors has increased more than 36 percent in the last five years. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 6:06 am
This new article from the Dallas Morning News, headlined "Child sex cases involving women are on the rise in Texas," discusses a notable trend in sex offense cases: The number of women serving time in Texas prisons for having sex with minors has increased more than 36 percent in the last five years. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 11:47 pm
The Dallas County man, who received deferred adjudication more than a decade ago for having sex with a 14-year-old when he was 18, has his address and photo on file for the world to see - not a selling point, he says, for potential employers, landlords or girlfriends. [read post]
