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DA Watch: Students’ Hard Work Results in Exoneration of Two Men After 10 Years Into Their Life Sentences

Justice has been victorious all because of the hard work of students involved with both (1) UT-Austin’s Texas Center for Actual Innocence and (2) the Innocence Network at UT-Arlington. Long after the criminal justice system placed Claude Alvin Simmons, Jr., 54, and Christopher Shun Scott, 39, into Texas prisons for life and threw away the…

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on DA Watch |

Cop Watch: Fort Worth Cop Who Tasered Mentally Ill Man to Death Still on Patrol, Police Dept. Closes Its Investigation Without Discipline

Remember the mentally ill man whose family called for help in calming him down — and who the cops Tasered, then sent EMS away? The young man died — read all the details in our prior post. Well, according to PoliceOne.Com, the Fort Worth Police Department has closed the file on Officer Stephanie A. Phillips…

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on Cop Watch |

Cop Watch: Dallas Cop Kept Police Dept Files in His Garage … Now 2000 Cases Being Questioned

Detective Mickey East is working the auto pound desk today while his Dallas Police Department colleagues are going through his files. Seems that Detective East — a career cop, with over 35 years of service to the community — has made a habit of taking work home and keeping it there. Specifically, police files. You know,…

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on Cop Watch, Orwellian Threats to Rights |

Cop Watch: Richard Miles Freed After 14 Years In Jail, After Cops Admit Withholding Evidence

Yesterday, Richard Miles became a free man after being jailed for 14 years. His mom was there, waiting for him, at the Dallas County Courthouse. Cops Kept Their Mouths Shut Since 1995 In August 1995, Richard Miles was tried and convicted for murder and attempted murder here in Dallas. And from then until now, the…

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on Cop Watch |

Felony Possession of Marijuana Reduced to Misdemeanor

3rd Degree Felony Possession of Marijuana in Collin County Reduced to Misdemeanor

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on Criminal Law Blog |

Crime News: Michael Toney Dies Within Weeks After Being Freed from Texas Death Row, Are You Suspicious?

Back in 1999, Michael Toney was convicted and sentenced to die for the cruel bombing of a mobile home that killed three people in 1985. For years and years, Michael Toney — who had no connection with the victims that was ever found, and who had no physical evidence connecting him to the crime — wrote everyone he could…

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on Uncategorized |

Judge Watch: Tarrant County Judge Tiffany Lewis Pleads Guilty, Goes to Jail

Tiffany Lewis’s life will never be the same now that she’s pled guilty to taking client money — lots of client money — in a probate case … but we’re not too sure how ashamed she is just yet …. On September 15, 2009, former judge Tiffany Lewis pled guilty just as testimony was about…

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on Judge Watch |

Cop Watch: Local Police Depts Have to Pay for Crime Lab Testing Now

Times are tight and getting tighter, so counties across the State of Texas are finding all sorts of ways to cut costs. Here in Dallas, that means something to the criminal defense bar and prosecutors alike because who’s footing the bill for testing of DNA, firearms, blood, etc. has changed. The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office isn’t…

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on Cop Watch, Crime News, DA Watch |

Judge Watch: RIP Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

The Honorable Jerry Buchmeyer died this week in a San Marcos nursing home at the age of 76, after serving the bench for over 30 years. Considered by many to be a liberal judge, with landmark decisions involving both public housing and redistricting in this state, he achieved even more notoriety for his now famous…

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on Judge Watch |

Judge Watch: Court of Crim Appeals Says Not Unfair to Defendant Hood for Judge and DA to Have Affair During Trial

If you’re shaking your head in disbelief at this week’s ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals — well, join the crowd. When the news first hit that a trial court judge and the district attorney who prosecuted cases in her courtroom had had a long-standing sexual relationship, lots of folk were stunned. And lots…

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Michael Lowe, on Court Opinions, DA Watch, Death Row, Judge Watch, Orwellian Threats to Rights |

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