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6 Jun 2008, 3:12 pm
The unit is a fitting response to a spotlight on the system's mistakes: 33 inmate exonerations though DNA testing statewide since 1994, 17 of them in Dallas County alone since 2001. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 7:49 am
With several Texas jurisdictions hoping to empower local police to enforce immigration laws, I was interested to see this item from Laura Nicholes at the Texas Association of Counties ("Juveniles and immigration reform: What is the counties' role? [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 6:31 pm
Texas has a particularly bad history of convicting the innocent, as the court recognized: Since 1994, 33 men have been exonerated in Texas -- 17 of them from Dallas County since 2001 -- after DNA testing. [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]
4 Jun 2008, 5:31 pm
Since 2001, 33 men have been exonerated, including 17 in Dallas County using DNA testing. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 3:28 am
by Collin, Dallas and Denton County DWI Attorney Troy Burleson If you have been charged with a Collin, Dallas or Denton county DWI, chances are you were asked to do field tests by the officer who arrested you. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 7:01 am
Since late last year, inmates at the Travis County Jail have been able to receive e-mails through the service, which is provided by Dallas-based Securus Technologies. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 11:57 pm
For whatever reason, Dallas judges have actually scheduled more executions so far than judges in Harris County, though overall executions from Harris outnumber all other sources.Interestingly, according to summaries on the TDCJ website, the first five men scheduled to be executed had no prior prison record before they committed the murders that put them on death row; four of those five offenses also involved sexual assault. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 7:20 am
"I pretty much figured ... it was just a delay," said convicted murderer Karl Chamberlain, set to die a week after Sonnier for a slaying in Dallas County. [read post]
1 Jun 2008, 8:27 pm
by Collin County DWI attorney Troy Burleson This was a long but good weekend. [read post]
29 May 2008, 10:00 am
Spencer Campbell reports, "Notorious 'Texas Seven' Try to Save One of Their Own By Insulting Him ," in the alt-weekly Dallas Observer.The last time the Texas Seven were together, their crime spree claimed a life. [read post]
29 May 2008, 6:34 am
Especially with Senator John Whitmire and others at the Legislature proposing a radical downsizing of the Texas Youth Commission - a move that would shift responsibility for most serious juvenile offenders to the counties - it's timely that the foundation and Texas' two largest counties have teamed up to pioneer new alternatives. [read post]
29 May 2008, 2:14 am
As recent events in Dallas County have made so clear, innocent people really do get convicted. [read post]
28 May 2008, 11:38 pm
According to a Murphy news release, Chief Barrow has served as chief or interim chief in five Texas cities. [read post]
28 May 2008, 6:53 pm
According to a Murphy news release, Chief Barrow has served as chief or interim chief in five Texas cities. [read post]
27 May 2008, 7:25 pm
by Collin, Dallas and Denton County DWI Lawyer Troy Burleson As we have reported before, a growing number of Texas counties are instituting "no refusal" policies where officers will seek a warrant for a citizen's blood if he or she refuses a breath test. [read post]
24 May 2008, 8:09 am
Collin, Dallas and Denton County mandatory DWI blood tests: As I have reported in multiples posts, local counties are experimenting with mandatory blood tests from citizens suspected of DWI who refuse a breath test. [read post]
23 May 2008, 2:36 pm
The Dallas Morning News reports, "Collin DA: Wrong man may have been convicted in Plano girl's death. [read post]
23 May 2008, 1:45 pm
Mary Alice Robbins reports in the Texas Laywer on warnings issued by the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct to a Fort Worth county judge, Brent Keis, and an Amarillo district judge, Hal Miner. [read post]
21 May 2008, 9:51 pm
He is one of the 17 men wrongfully convicted in Dallas County, Texas, then cleared by DNA evidence. [read post]
