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29 Oct 2008, 7:21 pm
" The Dallas County ballot does include one judicial race (.pdf) in which there is no Democratic candidate. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 1:45 pm
Perry will allocate a total of $4 million in Criminal Justice Division grant money to Arlington, Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Garland, Houston, Irving, Laredo, McAllen and San Antonio. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 5:46 pm
Texas Prostitution Laws In Texas, prostitution is a misdemeanor with the possibility of up to 6 months in the county jail. [read post]
27 Oct 2008, 3:03 pm
That sentiment can be traced to publicity concerning 18 people in Dallas County who have been cleared of crimes by DNA evidence. [read post]
25 Oct 2008, 6:21 pm
Rodney Ellis has a column in the Dallas News announcing he plans to introduce legislation next spring to improve eyewitness ID procedures and require videotaping custodial interrogations.At Women in Crime Ink, Andrea Campbell discusses "That Murky Question: Time of Death"At Texas Prison Bidness, Bob Libal lets us know the Geo Group (a private prison company) has been indicted in South Texas for an inmate's death.I'd missed this Statesman story last week by Steven Kreytak… [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 7:54 pm
Reports the Dallas News:At least 2,600 Houston-area DWI arrests are now in question, after a Department of Public Safety contractor failed to inspect breath analysis equipment - and faked records to show that she hadMORE: Here's a longer story from the Houston Chronicle, which informs us that:The Texas Department of Public Safety announced Friday that it suspended the certification for a woman who contracted to keep the breath test machines accurate for the Clute, Friendswood,… [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 3:20 pm
Circuit Court of Appeals also said in a ruling that death row inmate Nelson Gongora may pursue an appeal that contends the jury improperly voted to condemn him because one of the questions they considered in their deliberations was faulty.Gongora, 29, was tried in Tarrant County in 2003, two years after Delfino Sierra, a Dallas father of four, was gunned down during an attempted robbery outside a party he was attending.Gongora does not have an execution date.And:The Texas Court of… [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 2:44 pm
John Wiley Price: Move to slash Dallas defender budget couldn't come at worse timeWhen does the adversarial process commence? [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 8:21 am
A few web sites for election locations:Denton County Elections [elections.dentoncounty.com]Dallas County Elections [www.dalcoelections.org]Collin County Elections [www.co.collin.tx.us]Tarrant County Elections [tarrantcounty.com] [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 7:02 am
TYC's new Executive Commissoner Cheri Townsend canceled their contract with a private prison company out of Florida to operate a facility in Eagle Lake west of Houston in Colorado County, the Dallas News reported, after the agency had already paid the company more than $1.26 million for managing an empty facility:After spending $1.26 million over three months on an empty juvenile prison in Eagle Lake, the Texas Youth Commission said today it is cancelling the controversial… [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 4:03 am
The Dallas Morning News did the state a great service by investigating the causes of Dallas County's 19 DNA exonerations. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 11:03 pm
The Dallas Morning News did the state a great service by investigating the causes of Dallas County's 19 DNA exonerations. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 1:06 pm
In that vein, the FOX TV station in El Paso had a story last night about how much time it takes officers to process arrestees into the jail:When a patrol officer out on the field makes an arrest, he takes the suspect downtown to the El Paso County Jail to book that person -- a process that can take any where from 20 minutes to almost two hours. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 10:22 pm
The Dallas Morning News did a very interesting investigative series on the problems with eyewitness identification and how they were major factors in the wrongful convictions of 18 of the 19 DNA exonerees in Dallas County. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 6:11 pm
I was in court in Ellis County. [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 9:11 pm
That's why the Dallas Morning News did not endorse him, and they weren't shy about saying so. [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 8:45 pm
Other Texas cities, including Dallas, have altered policies in the past year to give officers more flexibility in deciding which suspects get tickets and which go to jail. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 1:26 pm
Four of the six who were sprayed were taken by helicopter to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallasâ€â [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 12:15 pm
The 14th District Court in Dallas County dismissed the suit because plaintiffs failed to show that demand was futile. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 11:27 pm
The Dallas Morning News looked at robbery trials in Dallas County over two years and found a disquieting reliance on eyewitness testimony, even when corroborating evidence was weak. [read post]
