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21 May 2014, 10:02 am by Michael Lowe
Dallas Police Department Excessive Force Cases: $6,000,000 Damages Paid in 36 Months And before anyone suggests that police officers using excessive force isn’t a serious problem in Texas and here in Dallas, consider this: just a week ago, the local news reported on 10 different 6-figure settlements or verdicts involving the Dallas Police Department in the past three years (since 2011). [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 9:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Dallas defense attorney Michael Lowe had a probative, recent blog post on a topic much-discussed in this venue titled, "Texas police can get your phone records from phone company without a warrant: Ford v. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 4:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
 Another key, too-often neglected transparency issue: Former Harris County DA Johnny Holmes and the Texas Supreme Court, abetted by the Legislature after the fact, gutted the Law Enforcement exception (Govt Code 552.108) to the Public Information Act in Holmes v. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 6:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Information in police disciplinary files often qualifies as impeachment evidence which, under Brady v. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 12:27 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Police from Houston and Dallas, the Harris County DA's office and an expert from the US Marshals Service all contended (to greater and lesser effect in the Senate and House committees respectively) that it was okay for "real time" and prospective location data to require a warrant but historic location data should not.At the House hearing, bill author Rep. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 4:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
So, for example, in Dallas or El Paso, which never opted into the civil service code, reporters get a LOT more information on police misconduct than Houston or other civil service cities, and it really shows in their coverage, particularly at the Dallas News. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 1:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
That's because police-misconduct records in civil-service cities were made confidential by law in 1989, with departments forbidden even from sharing the information with other law enforcement agencies. [read post]
19 May 2018, 10:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Martin Reiser, a psychologist and forensic hypnotist with the Los Angeles Police Department, advocate a "videotape recorder" theory of human memory. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 10:39 am
" I'm in the Anybody-But-Thomas camp on this one.The Harris DA's race features former Houston police chief Clarence Bradford vs. a former judge, Pat Lykos - I was hoping for a Bradford v. [read post]
8 Dec 2007, 6:12 pm
"Fourteen DNA exonerations from Dallas County, the ongoing review of casesimplicated by the Houston Police Department crime lab scandal, andinvestigations into potentially wrongful executions continued to raisequestions about the reliability of the state's criminal justice system. [read post]
2 Sep 2021, 3:55 pm by Michael Lowe
” As Sanchez explains, relying upon an unpublished opinion from the Dallas Court of Appeals several years ago, White v. [read post]
5 May 2019, 11:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Just Liberty analyzed data from police departments in cities with 50,000 population or more and sheriffs in counties with more than 100,000 population. [read post]
POLICE OFFICER GETS SECOND CHANCE TO (S)ELECT GRIEVANCE PROCESS UPON REMANDCity of Desoto, Tx v. [read post]