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4 Feb 2008, 6:19 am
I've been focused elswhere besides the blog, or I would have mentioned sooner this Dallas News story about the Pecos County District Attorney's race ("Pecos DA criticized in youth jail sex scandal seeking re-election," Feb. 2), notable in particular because the incumbent running for re-election is the prosecutor who refused to pursue child molestation charges against Texas Youth Commission administrators at the West Texas State School, launching a… [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 8:12 am
  Click on the LINK to download and listen.Last week another Dallas County inmate was cleared of a crime he didn't commit after spending 23 years in jail â€â [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 1:06 pm by Michael Lowe
Lowe convinced Dallas County District Attorney’s office to reduce a 2nd Degree Felony Drug case to a deferred adjudication on a Class “A” misdemeanor. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 8:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Me too.Rockwall commissioners misplace blame on jail costsThe Rockwall County Commissioners Court recently held the Sheriff's feet to the fire for overspending on overtime to staff a too-full jail. [read post]
23 May 2024, 3:50 pm by John McFarland
Dallas County and others sued members of the Health and Human Services Commission in Travis County, alleging that HHSC has failed to timely transfer inmates from the Dallas County jail to state hospitals who have been held not competent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity, as required by law. [read post]
22 Jan 2025, 12:00 am
An elderly resident of Dallas County was found dead beside I-20. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 8:46 am
That's the title of an OpEd by Dallas County District Attorney in the Morning News today. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 5:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
") In both Dallas and Travis Counties, astonishingly, 73 percent of jail inmates incarcerated on that day were there awaiting trial as of August 1.Even so, I stand by my assessment that the number of pretrial defendants could be reasonably lowered to at least half or less of the overall jail population in Texas' larger counties. [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 7:19 am by William K. Berenson
This hits us hard in North Texas, with a whopping 3,783 intoxicated driver collisions in Dallas and Tarrant Counties last year. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 4:46 am by Michael Lowe
”  For more on ICE Holds in Texas, read my earlier discussion in “Immigration Holds in North Texas: Indefinite Stays and Dallas County Sheriff. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 12:49 pm
Under California’s drunk in public law, Stevenson would face a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in a county jail and a maximum $1,000 fine. [read post]
22 Feb 2014, 7:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Deadly Affection'The Dallas Morning News this week published an informative series on domestic violence investigations and prosecution.A local argument against jail privatizationA GOP commissioners court candidate in Liberty County wants the private prison firm Community Education Centers out of the local jail, reported Texas Prison Bidness, to end the "waste of millions of dollars." [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 6:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Video visitation at Dallas jail won't stop face to face visits Dallas County will begin video visitation at the jail, but the commissioners court wisely insisted that face to face visits must continue. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 9:05 am by Hunter Biederman
Of those, about a third already undergo blood testing at the Dallas County Jail. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 9:04 am
  Tiffany Lewis knows all about courtroom procedure and trial tactics … she was both a Dallas prosecutor and a member of the criminal defense bar  before taking the bench as  a Tarrant County Municipal Court Judge. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 1:34 pm by Bridget
Waller, contended a win-at-all-costs attitude of prosecutors is coming back to haunt Dallas County. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 3:53 am by SHG
Nichols fought the hordes of reporters to get into the Dallas County jail and sit down with Lee Harvey Oswald. [read post]
9 Jan 2016, 9:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
(The Dallas City Council just okayed a similar policy for pot arrests.)If judges and the DA embrace these programs, the plan could work. [read post]
19 May 2021, 3:05 pm by Dani Selby
Jackson, then a Dallas County assistant district attorney, withheld evidence from two innocent men on trial for murder: Mr. [read post]