Category Archives: Crime News
Texas Driver Responsibility Surcharge Nightmare: DPS Isn’t Following the New Law
Effective September 1, 2011, a new law went into effect here in Texas designed to help lots of folk convicted of a moving traffic violation, by changing the old law that required everyone who got a traffic ticket (including DWI) to pay a Driver Responsibility surcharge. For details, check out our post back in August…
Ex El Paso Medical Examiner’s Doctored Resume Gets Him Fired But Texas Medical Board Rules Dr. Paul Shrode Was Qualified For the Job
Dr. Paul Shrode was the Chief Medical Examiner for El Paso for five years, until he was fired in 2010 after a controversy arose about his background and whether or not the errors on his resume (discovered and reported by the local ABC television channel, ABC-7) meant that Dr. Shrode did not have the proper…
Texas Border Danger: New Website Invites Your Video, EMails Documenting Lack of Law Enforcement in South Texas
The Department of Agriculture has put up a website, ProtectYourTexasBorder, where anyone is invited to upload photographs, videos, or email their own personal stories about how dangerous it really is down there near the border between Texas and Mexico. And by near the border, we mean anytime you get around 90 miles (or an hour…
Police Brutality Videos Released: Texas Police Beatings and the Public Outcry in Houston
Beatings by police officers are not new; the new twist to this old story is how modern technology is giving us all a bird’s eye view of what cops can, and will, do to victims unable to defend themselves against assaults that often cause serious injuries and even death. We’ve posted information and videos about…
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…
Thanksgiving 2010: Get Ready, Texas, for Another No Refusal DWI Holiday
Law enforcement loves No Refusal weekends – counties all over the Lone Star State are now routinely blanketing holiday weekends with No Refusal efforts with notice to the public popping up in press releases issued as late as 24 hours before the holiday begins. You remember No Refusal weekends: those are the set time periods…
Denton Cop Bobby Lozano’s Murder of His Wife Covered by Discovery Channel’s David Lohr
Last year, former Texas police detective Bobby Lozano was tried and convicted in a Denton courtroom for the murder of his wife, Viki. Maybe you remember the case: a real life detective tried to get away with killing his wife — shooting her to death in their bedroom with his service revolver. Detective Lozano said…
Hank Skinner Execution Still Set 4 Today – France Is Asking for Delay. That’s Right. France.
There’s been lots of news coverage over the impending execution by the State of Texas of 47-year-old Hank Skinner, who has been sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend and her two adult sons back on New Year’s Eve 1993. Hank Skinner says he’s innocent. He’s asking for DNA testing to be done. …
Can We Trust Texas Crime Labs? NO.
Many, many, many criminal defense attorneys in the State of Texas cast a wary eye at any test results coming out of crime labs in this state, because all too often, state forensic evidence has shown itself to be faulty. Unlike the CSI shows on TV, all sorts of crazy stuff appears to happen in…
Jail Watch: Criminal Network In Texas Dept of Criminal Justice System? Texas Rangers Investigate
Right now, one of the biggest news stories we’ve had in years may be breaking – if convicted rapist Arcade Joseph Comeaux is telling the truth. Considering who’s giving his words some weight, looks like he just might be. Huntsville Inmate Arcade Joseph Comeaux Escaped Last Week Last week, Comeaux escaped as he was being transported by…
