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5 Dec 2006, 10:59 am
In Dallas County defendants were twice as likely to see a jury: That same year they saw 749 jury verdicts out of about 17,348 convictions.Statewide, less than 1% of all criminal convictions in Texas result from jury trials. [read post]
3 Dec 2006, 12:27 am
After most incumbent judges in Dallas state courts lost their jobs on election day, reports DallasBlog, some of them stopped showing up for work:The morning after the election, Dallas County lawyers showed up for trials and hearings, as did their hard-working clients. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 7:50 am
That's the title of an article in this week's Dallas Observer, the New Times-owned alt-weekly, examining the impact of this month's electoral sweep in Dallas County (here) on a high visibility death penalty case. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 8:55 am
The hearing at the Collin County Courthouse marked the latest attempt by Mr. [read post]
24 Nov 2006, 9:30 am
"It's not unheard-of, but more often than not, the defense would be supporting or seeking one," said Dallas attorney Paul Watler, former president of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 4:09 am
Dallas Morning News columnist Mercedes Olivera has an article in the November 18, 2006, issue about a recent city resolution passed by the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 1:18 am
Nearly twice as many defendants in Harris County were sent to state jails last year for possessing less than 1 gram of a drug than in Dallas, Tarrant and Bexar counties combined. [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 2:28 pm
" Among the 2003 "hellholes" were all the heavily African-American counties in Mississippi, two mostly Latino counties in Texas, the heavily Latino Miami-Dade county in Florida, and the mostly black Orleans Parish in Louisiana. [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 1:15 pm
That was the headline of a story in yesterday's Dallas Morning News about the flood of bills pre-filed in the Texas Legislature. [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 1:07 pm
"That's absurd," George West, a former Dallas County assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case, told The Dallas Morning News. [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 10:17 am
They include:County veterans service offices: Collin County (972-881-3060), Dallas County (214-819-1885), Denton County (940-349-2950) and Tarrant County (817-531-5645) Department of Veterans Affairs: 1-800-827-1000 or www.va.gov Texas Veterans Commission: 1-800-252-8387 statewide or www.tvc.state.tx.us Veterans of Foreign Wars: 1-800-839-1899 or www.vfw.orgVeterans may get military discharge documents at vetrecs.archives.gov. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 1:59 pm
"  LINK Things changed overnight in the Dallas County judicial system. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 7:59 am
" says Susan Hays, a Dallas solo and former chairwoman of the Dallas County Democratic Party. [read post]
10 Nov 2006, 12:23 am
Indeed, DNA testing has exonerated ten wrongfully convicted people in Dallas County alone in the last five years.The 80th Texas Legislature, which convenes in January, will have the chance to enact key reforms like corroboration for snitches, videotaping interrogations and requiring best-practices for police lineups. [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 10:33 am
Dallas, Texas has apparently gone blue, which is quite an interesting turn of events. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 1:40 pm
Scheck said the number of wrongful convictions in Dallas County is troubling. [read post]
6 Nov 2006, 6:16 pm
From StandDown Texas Project: The Dallas Morning News reports that Bill Conradt, a prosecutor and former district attorney, has killed himself. [read post]
6 Nov 2006, 3:00 pm
The Dallas Morning News, CBS News and MSNBC now report that an assistant district attorney for Rockwall County, Texas, Louis Conradt, Jr., shot himself fatally as police prepared to serve an arrest warrant on him for soliciting sex with a... [read post]