Category Archives: Crime News

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…


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…


Fix Found? New Rules To Deal With Driver Responsibility Program’s $2 Billion Unpaid Surcharges and 2+ Yr DWI Case Backlog

The Texas Public Safety Commission adopted changes to the Driver Responsibility Program rules this week, and these will become effective next month.  We’ve written about these surcharges before.    Attempt to Resolve the Huge Backlog of DWI Cases Across the State of Texas It seems that criminal judges across the state were the incentive for these new rules,…


Paris Hilton – Special Treatment During Cocaine Bust or At the Station? Sure. You Betcha.

Usually, this blog serves as a record of bad acts by Texas law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, or other members of the local criminal justice system.  However, it’s just too tempting to ponder the latest antics of Paris Hilton, after reading that long before her recent felony arrest, Ms. Hilton tweeted a photo of the identical purse…


Texas Police Beating Citizens Once Again Caught on Video

Texas police violently beating citizens – it’s a story that is so commonplace in this state, it’s almost a tradition of sorts. However, with modern technology, violent cops are being caught more often — and when there is video, usually the media helps to spread the word. This week, law enforcement officers in Paris, Texas,…


Will Texas DWI Laws Finally Become Fair? Maybe.

Last week, Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire finally acknowledged the elephant in the room of Texas drunk driving laws — what DWI law applies to you when you’re pulled over depends upon where you’ve been stopped. As Whitmire explained to the media, “You need to be selective about where you want to…


Fort Worth Makes Record Breaking $2,000,000 Settlement Offer in Cop Taser Killing of Michael Jacobs

Around a year ago, Michael Jacobs died after his family called the police to help them get Michael under control.  Michael was a dianosed schizophrenic, and his loved ones knew they needed help on that April afternoon.  What they got instead was to witness a Fort Worth police officer Taser Michael to death when it…


DWI Surcharges – Rules Changes Being Considered by Public Safety Commission

Today, the Texas Public Safety Commission continues its hearing all about the current Texas Driver Responsibility Program, which many (as in, many criminal judges) are reporting is the reason that there is around a 2 year backlog of DWI cases across the state — because those accused of driving drunk and charged with DWI (driving while intoxicated) are wanting trials…