Forensic evidence isn't scientifically sound and this is a truth that has been heralded for years by criminal defense attorneys - but maybe this cruel reality will get more attention in 2013 afte...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2013/01/forensic-evidence-from-crime-labs-is.html
From 2006 to 2010, Dallas police officer Theadora Ross was the respected head of the Dallas area Crime Stoppers program. You know Crime Stoppers : there are branches of Crime Stoppers all ov...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/12/former-crimestoppers-head-veteran.html
Among the instances of prosecutorial misconduct that we've monitored, the continuing saga of Williamson County Prosecutor Ken Anderson (later Judge Kenneth Anderson) is one of the most shocking ....
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/11/prosecutorial-misconduct-in-michael.html
Last month here in the Dallas area -- actually, in the city of Mesquite, which sets smack dab inside Dallas' city limits -- a man named Michael Vincent Allen got into a high speed car chase with ...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/10/dallas-police-officer-shoots-man-41.html
911. We depend upon those numbers, and we teach our kids to call 911 in case of emergency almost as soon as they learn to tie their shoes. However, the reality is that calling 911 may not br...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/09/dallas-911-how-reliable-is-it-and-whats.html
Back in January 2010, we published a post that still ranks very high in Google results which discussed some of the reasons why Texas criminal defense attorneys cannot trust the test results that ...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/08/texas-crime-labs-are-not-trustworthy.html
It's the Fourth of July and that means law enforcement is working today, working hard to pull over and arrest people for suspicion of driving while intoxicated or distracted driving. So be car...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/07/no-refusal-on-fourth-of-july-2012.html
Today, the Dallas Morning News is wondering about what is going on with the Dallas Police Department -- as a lot of people are these days -- but according to reporter Tanya Eiserer, Dallas POLICE...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/06/dallas-police-department-6th-officer.html
Innocent men and women set convicted in Texas jails and prisons: it's a harsh reality that serves to fuel the passions of criminal defense attorneys everywhere, since defense lawyers know better ...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/05/hank-skinner-goes-before-texas-high.html
The TEXAS HIGHWAY PATROL has been around for a long time; most Texans recognize a Trooper on the roads when they see one. Part of the State of Texas Department of Public Safety , the Texas High...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/04/texas-highway-patrol-troopers-abuses.html
The story of an innocent man who spent over 20 years on Texas Death Row is far from over, even though Kerry Max Cook has not only been released, he has become a well-respected author and activis...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/03/former-texas-death-row-inmate-kerry-max.html
Juries usually have a single, solid voice that answers "guilty" or "innocent," simple as that -- but that's not what is happening in the State of Texas today when it's public officials like the H...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/02/texas-juries-issue-warnings-to-district.html
It's a big national news story today: a fifteen year old boy with a pellet gun was shot down in his Middle School hallway by Texas police this morning. Jaime Gonzales is Dead Tonight and Lots o...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2012/01/texas-police-shoot-down-15-year-old.html
A jury had been chosen and opening statements had been given by Marquette Wolf as Special Prosecutor and the defense for Dallas County Constable Derick Evans and on Tuesday, the trial had witnes...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/12/mistrial-declared-in-criminal-trial-of.html
Aransas County Judge at Law William Adams is getting an international publicity boost today, but not in a good way, as a YouTube of a man beating a teenaged girl with a belt has gone viral - and ...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/11/texas-judge-william-adams-investigated.html
Texans, for the most part, know the Texas Department of Public Safety as the state agency that handles Amber Alerts , and as the agency that oversees drivers' licenses applications and renewals ...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/10/texas-dps-officers-indicted-for.html
The news started trickling out over the Labor Day Weekend that the Texas Rangers had been contacted by the family of a South Texas man who was comatose in a Corpus Christi hospital, another victi...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/09/texas-rangers-investigating-another.html
Here in Dallas, it's very hot and staying that way as we endure a record-breaking heat wave. Day after day of 100+ degree weather. So, it's understandable that tempers are rising and that dom...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/08/dallas-cop-busted-on-domestic-violence.html
Liberty County is in the national spotlight this summer as the place where 19 defendants (ranging in age from midteens to almost 30 years) have been charged with the gang rape of an 11 year ol...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/07/liberty-county-prosecutor-arrested-this.html
If you are pondering stealing something in Texas - and in this bad economy, crime is on the rise - you may be risking more than getting busted and serving some time. You may be risking your life...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/06/texas-cops-shoot-to-kill-two-young-men.html
The State of Texas versus your individual right to choose how you live. It's an ongoing fight. There's the No Refusal Campaign, where you're forced to give your blood in a blood test or your ...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/05/get-ready-for-statewide-click-it-or.html
For seven years, Abel C. Limas presided over the 404th Judicial District Court down in Brownsville, a court where lives were often at stake in criminal matters and which also heard a variety of c...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/04/texas-judge-arrested-and-immediately.html
This past Monday night, a Fort Worth police officer pulled over a SUV driven by Charal Thomas, 32. Thomas' three kids, ranging in age from 7 to 11, were all riding in the back seat. There w...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/03/fort-worth-cop-shoots-kills-local-man.html
Phil Fitzgerald used to be a Texas district court judge, and he used to be a free man. Things change. The Beaumont Grand Jury issued its 25-count indictment last week of former Judge Fitzge...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/texas-judge-busted-by-feds-for-taking.html
This week, a fifty-one (51) year old man walked out of a Texas courtroom a free man, after serving over 30 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Cornelius Dupree was officially exonera...
http://dallaslawyer.blogspot.com/2011/01/cornelius-dupree-freed-as-innocent-man.html