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2 Nov 2008, 7:46 am
More than 50 school districts in Texas are asking voters to approve tax hikes Tuesday, hoping to fare better than at least two dozen districts that have already been rejected by voters in tax rollback elections.In Dallas County, a $747 million package to build a new Parkland Memorial Hospital is among the largest bond proposals in the state. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 8:03 am
The four sites are:Austin Travis County MHMR (Travis)Center for Health Care Services, San Antonio (Bexar)North'Texas Behavioral Health Authority, Dallas (Dallas)Tarrant County MHMR, Fort Worth (Tarrant) These outpatient programs are not in secure settings and are suitable when the court believes the defendant won't be a danger. [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 7:17 am
Dallas County was hit with recent settlements and judgments totaling nearly $2 million in jail-neglect lawsuits. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 7:21 pm
She told Threat Level she took her 19-year-old handicapped daughter to vote at the Duncanville Library in Duncanville in Dallas County, Texas, on Monday the 27th. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 1:45 pm
Perry will allocate a total of $4 million in Criminal Justice Division grant money to Arlington, Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Garland, Houston, Irving, Laredo, McAllen and San Antonio. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 5:46 pm
Texas Prostitution Laws In Texas, prostitution is a misdemeanor with the possibility of up to 6 months in the county jail. [read post]
25 Oct 2008, 6:21 pm
Rodney Ellis has a column in the Dallas News announcing he plans to introduce legislation next spring to improve eyewitness ID procedures and require videotaping custodial interrogations.At Women in Crime Ink, Andrea Campbell discusses "That Murky Question: Time of Death"At Texas Prison Bidness, Bob Libal lets us know the Geo Group (a private prison company) has been indicted in South Texas for an inmate's death.I'd missed this Statesman story last week… [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 7:54 pm
Reports the Dallas News:At least 2,600 Houston-area DWI arrests are now in question, after a Department of Public Safety contractor failed to inspect breath analysis equipment - and faked records to show that she hadMORE: Here's a longer story from the Houston Chronicle, which informs us that:The Texas Department of Public Safety announced Friday that it suspended the certification for a woman who contracted to keep the breath test machines accurate for the Clute, Friendswood,… [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 3:20 pm
Circuit Court of Appeals also said in a ruling that death row inmate Nelson Gongora may pursue an appeal that contends the jury improperly voted to condemn him because one of the questions they considered in their deliberations was faulty.Gongora, 29, was tried in Tarrant County in 2003, two years after Delfino Sierra, a Dallas father of four, was gunned down during an attempted robbery outside a party he was attending.Gongora does not have an execution date.And:The Texas… [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 2:44 pm
John Wiley Price: Move to slash Dallas defender budget couldn't come at worse timeWhen does the adversarial process commence? [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 7:02 am
TYC's new Executive Commissoner Cheri Townsend canceled their contract with a private prison company out of Florida to operate a facility in Eagle Lake west of Houston in Colorado County, the Dallas News reported, after the agency had already paid the company more than $1.26 million for managing an empty facility:After spending $1.26 million over three months on an empty juvenile prison in Eagle Lake, the Texas Youth Commission said today it is cancelling the… [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 1:06 pm
Whatever it is, the nurse will evaluate him," said Apodaca.Apodaca explains the medical exam takes the longest because there's only one nurse and because they must attend to the suspects medical needs as part of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 6:11 pm
Neither, we could solve all of these problems by simply moving Texas Tech School of Law to Dallas! [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 9:11 pm
That's why the Dallas Morning News did not endorse him, and they weren't shy about saying so. [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 8:45 pm
Other Texas cities, including Dallas, have altered policies in the past year to give officers more flexibility in deciding which suspects get tickets and which go to jail. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 1:26 pm
Four of the six who were sprayed were taken by helicopter to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallasâ€â [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 12:15 pm
The 14th District Court in Dallas County dismissed the suit because plaintiffs failed to show that demand was futile. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 2:45 pm
And where else in Texas has this occurred? [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 8:17 pm
John Council reports, "New Open-File Policy Includes Appellate Info," in the October 6 Texas Lawyer.When Craig Watkins took over as Dallas County district attorney in January 2007, one of the first big administrative changes he made was instituting an open-file policy that allows criminal-defense attorneys to see a prosecutor's file before trial. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 2:52 pm
LINK Here's one crushing disappointment about the tragedy of wrongful convictions in Dallas County and across Texas: We see too few safeguards against this nauseating history repeating itself even today. [read post]
