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14 Jan 2008, 10:54 pm
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards decided to conduct a surprise visit to the Dallas County Jail rather than wait for their regularly scheduled inspection in March, reports the Dallas News ("Jail gets surprise inspection," Jan. 14). [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 9:49 am
Texas has set free 15 inmates wrongly convicted in Dallas alone since 2001, including a man released this month who had spent 27 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 7:23 am
Sam Allen, Dallas lawyer Peter Schulte and Roy H. [read post]
13 Jan 2008, 2:34 am
At first blush, it appears that Texas is locking up innocent folks leftand right. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 11:57 pm
On Thursday at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's briefing, I heard Bexar County DA Susan Reed describe offenders who receive probation sentences instead of jail as getting a "free ride," which always strikes me as an odd thing to say, though you hear it a lot (an audio of her remarks has been posted online). [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 1:30 am
(See the rest of this Grits post for a table detailing pretrial detention rates in larger Texas counties, most of which are well over 50%.)I don't believe this trend best serves public safety. [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 7:26 am
Yesterday afternoon I had the chance to chat briefly with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and I brought up the case of Charles Chatman, the latest innocent man freed as a result of DNA testing in old Dallas County cases. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 12:19 pm
Reported the Dallas News ("Texas Youth Commission Executive Billy Humphrey Abruptly Quits," Jan. 10): Mr. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 9:26 am
A spokeswoman for Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said the prosecutor's office will ask that the date be set aside if no one files an appeal on the inmate's behalf. [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 9:02 am
"That's the context you have to put it in," said Marquart, director of the criminology and sociology programs at the University of Texas at Dallas. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 2:04 am
Dean's story parrots the false assessment from the Dallas News that Travis County is the only jurisdiction using the new authority. [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 1:31 am
But we've seen scandals take down Sheriffs in Dallas, Bexar and Potter Counties regarding allegedly improper or bribe-influenced commissary contracts, so it'll be interesting to see which contracts related to county jails wind up being wrapped into the investigation.It wasn't that long ago that the Cameron County Sheriff was convicted of escorting drug smugglers through his county, and San Antonio city council members went to prison for… [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 12:51 am
"2007 annual report on Texas judiciary availableI've already done a couple of posts based on data from the Office of Court Administration's annual report on the Texas judiciary, but if you're interested in seeing the whole thing, which is chock full of interesting data, it's available here.No transition team yet for new Dallas jail wingDallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez has been criticized, sometimes justly, for her failure to turn around problems at the… [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 1:36 pm
Chatman is the 15th wrongfully convicted prisoner in Dallas County who has been exonerated by DNA evidence since 2001. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 10:47 am
Dallas County already held the distinction of the county with the largest number of DNA exonerations in the nation. [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 6:40 pm
Charles Chatman became a free man yesterday, the 15th wrongfully convicted prisoner in Dallas County to be exonerated by DNA testing since 2001. [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 10:01 am
Including Chatman, the state will have released at least 30 wrongfully convicted inmates since 2001, according to the Innocence Project.Mike Ware, who heads the Conviction Integrity Unit in the Dallas County District Attorney's office, said he expects that number to increase.One of the biggest reasons for the large number of exonerations in Texas is the crime lab used by Dallas County, which accounts for about half the state's DNA cases. [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 7:44 am
Yes, I know, Tiara Ellis reported in the Dallas News on New Years' Eve that the new law "is being used only in Travis County," and the AP included the line in the story y'all received over the wires.But that's not true, okay? [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 2:21 pm
See the full Dallas Morning News article below: Farmers Branch, Irving, Carrollton leaders form common bond 09:21 AM CST on Saturday, December 29, 2007By STEPHANIE SANDOVAL / The Dallas Morning News ssandoval@dallasnews.com Lunch among council members of neighboring cities seldom raises eyebrows. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 1:32 pm
Faults in the criminal justice system have been highlighted in Dallas County, where 14 wrongly convicted people have been discovered through DNA testing. [read post]
