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12 May 2013, 6:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits expects quite a few candidates and a competitive (if likely underfunded) race.Dallas DA primary promises hot contestTroubled Dallas county commissioner John Wiley Price said Judge John Creuzot should run against District Attorney Craig Watkins in the 2014 primary. [read post]
5 May 2008, 8:50 am
(Archive footage of Watkins speaking at rally) Pelley:  When he took office last year, Craig Watkins became the first Black district attorney in the history of Texas. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 2:36 pm
The Los Angeles Times reported DA Craig Watkins' frustration at the mounting numbers of black men's convictions that have proven to be false in Dallas County and called for a nationwide discussion about race and justice. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 3:25 pm
District Attorney Craig Watkins' office and the Innocence Project are jointly reviewing post-conviction DNA testing requests denied under previous District Attorney Bill Hill. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 2:15 pm
The event will consist of two discussion panels, one featuring three Texas exonerees and one featuring Michigan Congressman John Conyers, state Senator Rodney Ellis, District Attorney Craig Watkins and Jeff Blackburn of the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
3 Dec 2008, 8:44 am
. ;)Meanwhile, Houston Chron columnist Rick Casey has an article on the new Lykos administration and recent idea exchanges with Dallas County DA Craig Watkins, a Democrat, who is wisely copying Harris County's "direct filing" intake system (see related Grits coverage) where prosecutors are on-call 24-7 to process cases:As Harris County has done for decades, Watkins will make "intake" prosecutors available around the clock, seven days a week, to… [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 9:44 am by Nathan Koppel
None other than Kathryn Ruemmler, the former Enron prosecutor and Latham & Watkins partner. [read post]
9 Jan 2013, 6:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Both the Mexican government, a group of distinguished legal scholars from across the country (including UT's own Jordan Steiker), and Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins were among those filing briefs with the Supremes urging them to take the case. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 5:55 am by Hunter Biederman
“If you do retain the services of an attorney, he or she may contact our office to discuss the allegations with the Dallas County District Attorney, Honorable Craig Watkins or his designee. [read post]
13 Apr 2009, 8:22 am
Kevin Johnson writes, "Reality show on DNA exoneration stirs ethics issues," for USA Today.For the first time, reality TV will explore the growing use of DNA evidence to exonerate the wrongly convicted, in a series that is raising ethical questions before its first episode airs this month.Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, who has assisted in the release of 10 wrongly convicted men since taking office in 2007, says the goal of Dallas DNA, scheduled for… [read post]
24 Jun 2007, 12:39 am
What's more, he hopes changes in Dallas' approach will create a reform legacy that will spread across the state.A column in the Fort Worth Star Telegram this week by Richard Gonzales quotes extensively from Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins speaking at a Juneteenth event ("Heresy, healing, courts and crime," June 20). [read post]
5 Aug 2009, 10:07 am
Seems that DA Craig Watkins asked the county for a 10% increase in his annual budget of $35.9 million. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 3:00 pm by Michael Lowe
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins Craig Watkins has been the Top District Attorney of Dallas County since 2006, and he’s fighting hard against allegations of prosecutorial misconduct coming out of mortgage fraud charges that were filed against Al Hill III. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 10:04 am
The decision to pursue non-DNA cases broadens a review of convictions begun a year ago by Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and the Innocence Project of Texas amid a wave of DNA exonerations. [read post]