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17 Jun 2008, 5:19 pm
by Collin, Dallas and Denton county DWI attorney Troy Burleson One can do a quick search on Google concerning the Intoxilyzer 5000 and discover that there is a great volume of internet literature concerning the many scientific problems with the machine used in Texas to measure a person's breath/alcohol concentration. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 3:27 pm
" Dallas County prosecutors will have to decide whether to seek the death penalty at a new punishment trial. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 7:49 pm
" Dallas County prosecutors will have to decide whether to seek the death penalty at a new punishment trial.I wonder how much time and Texas taxpayer money has been spent by the state trying to get Ronald Chambers executed. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 3:21 pm
A model for such a commission already exists at the local level in Dallas County, where District Attorney Craig Watkins has worked with the legal and non-profit advocacy community to free people like Woodard. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 2:01 pm
In the wake of exonerations for 17 men in Dallas County, released after DNA evidence revealed they were innocent of the crimes they had been convicted of and were serving time for, Texas Lawyer tracked down some of the prosecutors involved in Witnesses to the Prosecution: Current and Former ADAs ... [read post]
14 Jun 2008, 9:02 am
An all-woman jury yesterday in Amarillo brought back a guilty verdict against Potter County Sheriff Mike Shumate for taking bribes from the Dallas-based commissary manager, Mid-America Services. [read post]
14 Jun 2008, 3:13 am
Hood's lawyers allege that Texas state court Judge Verla Sue Holland had a "personal and direct interest in the outcome of the case," and was disqualified from trying the case under the Texas Constitution because of her ongoing affair with Collin County District Attorney Tom O'Connell. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 5:34 pm
In an appeal filed Thursday with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and in the trial court in Collin County, Hood's lawyers said his conviction and death sentence should be voided. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 11:37 am
Over at the Dallas Observer's blog, Unfair Park, Robert Wilonsky links to this 2005 "feasibility analysis" (pdf) from the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense regarding creation of a PD offices in Texas that specifically compares the savings Dallas County enjoys because of it's PD office to the cost of hiring private attorneys (see Table 2, p. 10):In 2005 according to these data, the attorney cost per felony case at the public defender… [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 8:11 am
Gillespie County, a Texas case about which oral arguments were heard in March. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 3:40 am
The grant also requires Dallas County commissioners to fund the DA's office for two additional years. [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 9:53 pm
by Collin, Dallas and Denton County DWI Lawyer Troy Burleson Click below to view the infamous Intoxilyzer 5000. [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 6:44 am
Indeed, if Dallas county were to slash the public defender budget, there's little question their costs would increase to match higher recent costs experienced by counties without a PD.In 2005 a consultant hired by neighboring Tarrant County (Fort Worth) contrasted their indigent defense costs in the wake of passage of Texas' Fair Defense Act in 2001 to their neighbors and the rest of the state, and officials would do well to recall that the… [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 4:21 pm
Dallas County's new district attorney has been leading an effort that has uncovered 17 wrongly convicted defendants there alone. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 10:21 pm
Weigman is being held at the Plymouth County Jail in Massachusetts. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 8:23 pm
FWIW, Craig Watkins' Dallas DA office has been the most aggressive in pushing for quick execution dates - 4 of the executions scheduled post-Baze are from Dallas County; no other county including Harris has more than one.UPDATE: Ohio's high court actually held a hearing and decided their state's three-drug protocol didn't meet the new Baze standard. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 3:01 pm
Al Dia's Octavio Rivera Lopez writes in today's Dallas Morning News, "Murder conviction overturned: Man walks free in West Texas after 12 years. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 3:47 am
by Collin, Dallas and Denton County DWI Lawyer Troy Burleson The Eyes of Texas are upon you, indeed! [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 7:55 pm
"In fewer than two years in office, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins has become a star for who he is not â€â [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 3:25 pm
With 17 DNA exonerations, Dallas County has had more exonerations than any county in the country since 2001. [read post]
