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4 Jan 2008, 8:27 am
LATimes 1/4/08 15th Dallas County inmate since '01 is freedby DNA. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 7:17 am
Chatman, 47, added to Dallas County's nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 4:58 am
He is the 15th former convict from Dallas County to make that same walk to freedom based on DNA testing since 2001. [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
"If released on bond at a Thursday court hearing as expected, Chatman will become the 15th inmate from Dallas County since 2001 to be freed by DNA testing. [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]
3 Jan 2008, 6:53 am
Today, twenty seven years later, a Dallas court freed him based on DNA evidence that proved he was not guilty.How would you feel? [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 6:47 am
As we've mentioned before, Dallas County leads the country in wrongful convictions. [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]
1 Jan 2008, 10:27 pm
In counties like Harris, Dallas and Bexar where jail overcrowding has reached crisis levels, IMO it borders on irresponsible not to use this discretion. [read post]
1 Jan 2008, 7:54 pm
The state blamed the county for the problem and the county blamed the state. [read post]
1 Jan 2008, 12:31 am
A majority of those exonerations will come from Dallas County.TYC's inmate population will fall to 2,000 or fewer by the end of the year, down from more than 4,500 at the beginning of 2007, thanks to SB 103 and new rule changes allowing earlier release.TDCJ will face litigation over poor inmate health care that will force the next Legislature to significantly increase spending.In a bitterly fought election, incumbent Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal will lose… [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 12:00 pm
Lexington County Family Court Judge H. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 3:42 am
Scott Greenfield is having a “spirited” discussion about what criminal defense lawyers should drink on New Year’s Eve and Bennett is “all over” Dallas Harris County (it’s all the same to me) DA Chuck Rosenthal’s secretaryial affair. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 3:28 am
In Dallas, more than a dozen Democratic politicos were accused of various corruption charges by the feds in 2007, including state Rep. [read post]
29 Dec 2007, 7:17 pm
" But Watkins, a Dallas native, has set out to change the way justice is delivered in Dallas County. [read post]
28 Dec 2007, 12:57 am
Here are several jail related items I've been watching that may interest Grits readers:Federal suit filed against Dallas jail for medical neglectThis has been a long time coming: A civil rights lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Ellard alleging medical neglect at the Dallas County Jail, especially notable as the first such litigation since Parkland hospital took over medical care at the jail from UTMB Galveston's correctional managed care service, which had been blamed for… [read post]
27 Dec 2007, 2:34 pm
The Arlington county prosecutor told THREAT LEVEL that he was pressured to pursue the case by no less than the general counsel of Regal Entertainment Group -- the world's largest motion picture exhibitor. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 9:25 am
I'm also afraid that's what will happen with President Bush's proposed funding for Mexican law enforcement.Finally, in the honorable mention category, I suggested that in 2007, "Dallas Dems must now put up or shut up on criminal justice," arguing specifically that Sheriff Lupe Valdez and new DA Craig Watkins in Dallas County must each step up to solve problems they inherited from their predecessors. [read post]
