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12 Feb 2007, 5:49 am
Dallas released hundreds of low-level offenders last week to make room in the county jail, reported the Dallas News ("Low level felons let out of Dallas County Jail," Feb. 12), but they're far from solving their problems.Over at Dallas Sidebar, former Dallas District and 5th Court of Appeals Judge Ron Chapman places part of the blame on the Legislature for enacting huge surcharges on tickets for DWIs and people driving… [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 11:04 am
The Innocence Project says he's one of 12 Dallas County men to be exonerated by D-N-A evidence since 2001, and one of 24 in Texas since 1989.The Innocence Project is a New York-based legal center that seeks to uncover wrongful convictions. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 9:42 am
That's the scope of the exodus Dallas officials must facilitate or else the Texas Commission on Jail Standards will tell them to stop taking inmates.Is it possible? [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 11:36 am
What was so troubling is that Waller is the 12th person in five years in Dallas County to be cleared through DNA testing.That is an alarming figure by any measure, and something of which Dallas County and the entire state of Texas ought to be ashamed.More than 185 people in 32 states, according to Innocence Project data, have been exonerated through DNA testing. [read post]
7 Feb 2007, 9:05 am
Davis knew of no entity in Texas that would be responsibility for investigating complaints against labs except the agency that operated the lab, as happened in Houston.A rep from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards said that currently 11 jails are not in compliance, including Dallas and Houston. [read post]
7 Feb 2007, 12:12 am
Carmody, is moving to New York from Dallas. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 1:34 pm
The county accounts for half of Texas' 24 DNA exonerations, the group said. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 7:14 am
"Not quite 'heroes': Andrew McCarthy at the National Review explains why the two Texas Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting an unarmed drug smuggler in the back while he was fleeing deserved jail.Dallas County Jail Crisis: DallasBlog updates us on the challenges facing Sheriff Lupe Valdez in reforming the "Chamber of Horrors" that is the Dallas County Jail.AG says TDCJ can test inmates for HIV if it chooses. [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 5:56 am
Riddle, the committee's budget officer, is a Republican, and an arch-conservative at that from suburban Harris County. [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 7:06 pm
"These are appalling mistakes, and in the case of Dallas County, there have been so many," said Democratic state Sen. [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 2:15 pm
Dallas County has leased the building to the nonprofit since 1997. [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 4:01 pm
(Serving low-income individuals in Eastern Texas area. [read post]
22 Jan 2007, 3:10 pm
Meanwhile, neighboring Dallas County has recorded its 12th recent DNA exoneration, this time a man falsely accused of child rape. [read post]
22 Jan 2007, 1:05 pm
Watkins, Dallas County's first African-American district attorney, took office two weeks ago in a Democratic sweep. [read post]
20 Jan 2007, 2:18 pm
As I've recently discussed here, here, and here, there have been twelve exonerations out of Dallas County since 2001. [read post]
19 Jan 2007, 2:18 am
It is the 12th such case in Dallas County alone of a conviction being overturned by DNA evidence since 2001. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 11:48 pm
Waller is the 12th exoneration in Dallas. “Nowhere else in the nation have so many individual wrongful convictions been proven in one county in such a short span,” said Barry C. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 8:34 pm
And bank robberies are up throughout North Texas, although not as sharply as in Dallas. [read post]
6 Jan 2007, 4:21 pm
Municipal and county governments in California, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey and Texas have also sued major manufacturers seeking what would amount to billions of dollars in damages. [read post]
6 Jan 2007, 9:03 am
The Dallas Morning News carries an Associated Press article this morning, "Five set to die this month in Texas.The convicted killer of a 3-year-old boy is set to die this week, the first of five lethal injections scheduled this month as Texas bucks a national trend and bolsters its standing as the most active in carrying out capital punishment. [read post]
