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13 Apr 2011, 8:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Last year the Texas Department of Public Safety received $2.4 million in federal grants to eliminate its backlog of untested rape kits, a project for which Tarrant County also received funds in 2010. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 3:17 pm by Steve Hall
But Dallas County still remains a leader among Texas counties in seeking and receiving death sentences and is on track to replace Harris County as the infamous "capital of capital punishment. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 3:54 am by Steve Lombardi
., Providence, ...See all stories on this topic » Deputies say wrong-way driver caused deadly accident in DallasWFAAby CYNTHIA VEGA DALLASDallas County Sheriff's Department investigators said alcohol may be a factor in a wrong-way driver crash that killed one person and injured three others in a second vehicle. [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 1:42 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Supreme Court requires that bail decisions should be based on the risk factor posed by a defendant to the public and the individual's financial resources, in Harris County in 2009, magistrates lowered bond amounts for financial reasons less than 10 percent of the time. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 11:20 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against Cignet Health of Prince George’s County, Md., (Cignet) signals the growing need for health plans and their sponsors, health care providers, health care clearinghouses and their business associates covered by the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to get serious about HIPAA compliance. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 9:21 am by Hunter Biederman
As with Point 1, these actions resulted in needless costs to the taxpayers of Collin County as well as personal, emotional, and financial costs to the defendants. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 7:54 am by Steve Hall
Ted Strickland not spared the lives of two convicted killers: Kevin Keith of Crawford County and Sidney Cornwell of Mahoning County. [read post]
19 Dec 2010, 3:00 pm by Jeff Gamso
They were losing cases they should have won.All three are probably right.The first two indicate something about the judgment of the people responsible for making decisions in the office. [read post]
19 Dec 2010, 8:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
(Even off the record explanations offered up to me from the County Attorney's office have been vague and unsatisfying.) [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 8:34 am by Steve Hall
For that reason, I nominate public defenders as the Dallas Morning News Texan(s) of the Year. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 11:34 am by Robert Chesney
The public should be assured that there was no threat against Metrorail or the general public in the Washington, D.C., area. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 8:30 am by Steve Hall
FDA representatives have repeatedly said they are not aware of any other approved source of the drug in the U.S. or abroad.The state has nonetheless declined to say where it got the drug, with Assistant Arizona Attorney General Kent Cattani citing a state law concealing the identity of executioners.The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to delay the execution because of the debate, and so attorneys at the Federal Public Defender's Office, which represents… [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 1:20 pm by Philip Thomas
Saturday update:  The Baker & McKenzie lawyer who was the defendant in the case has been identified as Joel Held in the firm's Dallas office. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 7:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But there are things counties can do to rein in these expenses, specifically establishing public defender offices and simply prosecuting fewer people. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 9:03 am by Steve Hall
The Forensic Science Commission meets tomorrow in Dallas, and the Todd Willingham case is on the agenda. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 8:10 pm
" The original idea for increasing penalties and restrictions, and for creating the public registry, was that harsh punishment and the public branding of offenders would enhance public safety – saving children, especially, from falling victim to sexual predators. [read post]
6 Sep 2010, 10:40 am by Jeff Blackburn
Their logic goes like this: the best way to improve indigent defense is through the creation of “do-able” small county and regional public defender (pd) offices. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 7:10 pm by Hunter Biederman
This move led to one of the defense attorney's filing a motion to restrict the trial publicity, and subpoenaing Bill Baumbach of the Collin County Observer, Ed Housewright of the Dallas Morning News, and Danny Gallagher of the McKinney Courier Gazette. [read post]