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4 Jan 2010, 8:07 pm
” In Texas, the Houston Chronicle reports that “Harris County loses state lead in executions,” and has “fallen behind both Bexar and Tarrant counties in the number of death sentences it imposes, an analysis of eight years of records shows. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:31 am
Here's a notable excerpt:A Dallas County detention bed costs $54,955 a year to operate. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 8:28 am
But according to a new analysis from the Houston Chronicle, Harris County has dropped behind both Bexar County (San Antonio) and Tarrant County (Fort Worth) in its death sentencing since 2005. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 5:59 am
In 2004, Hughes shared his information with a Dallas County grand jury -- the one that was investigating Dallas' infamous fake drug scandal.Hughes later accused former District Attorney Bill Hill and others in his office of trying to pressure him into changing his story.The grand jury determined that Hill and two subordinates did not commit witness tampering.According to Hughes, at least two cops lied when they testified that they found drugs after random traffic… [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 5:06 am
In Harris County, youth are charged with crimes at double the rate of kids in Dallas or Fort Worth. [read post]
1 Jan 2010, 9:19 pm
He was a former assistant district attorney in Dallas County (Chief misdemeanor prosecutor and felony prosecutor), served as prosecutor for City of Frisco, Foreman of the Grand Jury in 2008, former Municipal Court Judge, City of Trenton, Texas, and is certified to handle death penalty cases. [read post]
1 Jan 2010, 6:59 am
Bassett was one of the Dallas News' "Texan of the Year" finalists.Dog scent lineups: DNA exonerations and an Innocence Project of Texas report demonstrated erroneous "scent lineups" run by Deputy Keith Pikett of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Department are unreliable, and dog experts say he fails to use best practices. [read post]
1 Jan 2010, 6:23 am
He was a former assistant district attorneya in Dallas County (Chief misdemeanor prosecutor and felony prosecutor), served as prosecutor for City of Frisco, Foreman of the Grand Jury in 2008, former Municipal Court Judge, City of Trenton, Texas, and is certified to handle death penalty cases. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 9:51 pm
Ctr. at Dallas v. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 11:07 am
An on-site investigation will be conducted by the Dallas/Fort Worth Region staff within 12 hours of receipt of the complaint by the regional office. [read post]
29 Dec 2009, 1:37 pm
That tells me the Dallas GOP will likely throw the kitchen sink at him hoping to stem the recent tide of Democratic victories in that county. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 10:53 pm
Sudden acceleration didn't become a national issue for the automaker until this fall, when it announced its largest recall shortly after a 2009 Lexus ES accelerated out of control and crashed in San Diego County, killing an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer along with his wife, daughter and brother-in-law. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 12:40 pm
Dallas County; a recent decision from the 5th Circuit (circuit as in Federal, not State) court of Appeals. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 12:24 pm
But she also cited recent Supreme Court rulings that banned executions of those convicted for murders committed before age 18 and of mentally impaired offenders with low IQs who meet certain criteria.Williamson County prosecutor John Bradley, who heads the Texas Forensic Science Commission, argues that widespread turnover in prosecution offices statewide, including in Dallas and Harris counties, likely played the greatest role in recent reductions in death sentences.The… [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 11:34 am
Fortunately, this has not yet started in Collin or Dallas County. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 9:41 am
Two of them seem routine enough: A lawyer who serves on a county juvenile board and a county commissioner with connections to CASA. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 6:37 am
The suit, filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, alleges that Rite Aid pharmacists were negligent when they issued a lethal dose of a chemotherapy drug to John Sheridan, who developed malignant melanoma that had spread to his brain in 2007. [read post]
26 Dec 2009, 11:21 am
Then the deputies failed to cooperate with Dallas PD's commercial auto theft unit or the Ellis County DA when they investigated the crime.That episode makes me think the problem isn't that nobody is focused on commercial vehicle theft, particularly in North Texas where Hamilton said the problem is greatest, but that detectives are more focused on turf and protecting their informants than solving the problem. [read post]
25 Dec 2009, 12:04 pm
Connections between Durham and Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi come to light. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 7:01 am
By the time Bryan Lee headed to work along Highway 51 in Texas on Sept. 15, 2005, the road-building industry and its government overseers were painfully aware of a deadly, though easily corrected, construction hazard: pavement-edge drop-offs. [read post]
