Criminal Law Blog
Felony Choking Case Dismissed
Dallas County 3rd degree Felony Choking Case Dismissed
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Indecent Exposure Case Dismissed
Client case dismissed after DA’s investigation into DPD’s Club Dallas Cases
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Texas Cops To Get Cameras on Their Heads: Now Will We See Even More Bad Acts than Dashcams Have Revealed?
Within the next 60 days, Austin police officers on foot and bike patrols will be participating in a national study on the effectiveness of having law enforcement wear little video cameras on their heads. That’s right: they will have little tiny web cabs on their caps or hats — or attached to their ears, like…
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Brownsville DA Gets WorldWide Media Coverage 4 Using Facebook Profiles in Jury Selection Process
Armando Villalobos, Cameron County’s District Attorney, is making news all around the country and across the globe from his office down in Brownsville, Texas — all because Mr Villalobos has decided to use Facebook as part of his jury selection. That’s right: the District Attorney has announced that prosecutors down in Brownsville are going to use Facebook pages…
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Plano Case Spotlights the Danger of Flashlights Strapped to Cop Guns: People Get Shot
The Dallas Morning News is helping spread the word this week about the dangers of a new gizmo that police departments around the country are using: the flashlight strapped onto a police pistol, its lens directly beneath the barrel of the gun. More and more police departments are using these things. Problem is, like the…
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New DWI Laws for Texas May Happen: Texas Legislature Considers Revising DWI Laws
It’s not news to anyone that Texas drunk driving laws need to change. There are huge backlogs of pending DWI cases in most Texas counties – 1000s of cases that are bottlenecked. This, of course, is a bigger problem for the prosecution than for the defense. Any good DWI defense attorney will tell you that…
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Whattha? Judge Charlie Baird Rebuked by Appeals Court in Willingham Case
You’ll remember Judge Charlie Baird – we’ve written about him before: Judge Baird was the man who took on the Tim Cole matter when others on the bench would not, and we tipped our hat to him for it (read “Judge Charlie Baird May Exonerate a Dead Man and Give Justice to Tim Cole”). Judge Baird…
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Six Veteran Fort Worth Cops Fired Yesterday for Theft – Felony Charges Should Follow
Police officers getting caught violating the law for whatever reason is always alarming, but it’s especially disconcerting when there’s a group of cops involved and they’ve been on the force long enough to really, really know better. Fort Worth Cops Fired for Faking Traffic Tickets to Boost Their Pay Yesterday, six (6) Fort Worth police…
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Dallas Resisting Arrest Case Reduce to Class “C” and Assault Dismissed
Resisting Arrest case reduced to Class “C” and Assault/Family Violence Case Dismissed
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Houston Chronicle’s Rick Casey Argues Harris County District Judge Dan Hinde Committed Felony This Fall
Rick Casey is a columnist for the Houston Chronicle, and in his column dated December 7, 2010, he boldly argues that Harris County District Court Judge Dan Hinde, who presides over the 269th Judicial District Court, has violated Section 39.06 of the Texas Penal Code and thus committed a felony — but Judge Hinde sees…
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