Category Archives: DA 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…
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DA Watch: Texas Death Row Inmate Toney Freed Last Night and May Not Face Re-Trial
Michael Toney walked out of jail a free man last week after being on Texas’ Death Row for a decade. Maybe you remember the case of Michael Toney…. Michael Toney Was Convicted for the Bombing Murder of 3 People – Nine Years Later, the DA Admits to Hiding Exculpatory Evidence Last October, we posted about how…
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Cop Watch: Will Anyone Ever Investigate Dallas County Constables for Precincts 1 and 5?
Boy, is the Dallas Morning News all over this story. Last Tuesday, the Morning News printed an editorial asking that County Judge Jim Foster go forward and investigate his suspicions regarding the towing polices of Dallas County. Today, the Morning News has a new editorial, asking that District Attorney Craig Watkins investigate what’s going on with the…
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DA Watch: DA Money in the News – and There’s a Lot of It
The District Attorney for Dallas — the one seen nationwide in the Dallas DNA television series this past year — is making the news again, and this time it’s not about crime. It’s about money. Seems that DA Craig Watkins asked the county for a 10% increase in his annual budget of $35.9 million. What…
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Crime News: Paris TX Protests and the Pending Death Penalty for Hate Crime Law
Perhaps you’ve seen some of the news reports from Paris, Texas, about simultaneous demonstrations planned by the New Black Panther Party and the Ku Klux Klan after murder charges were dropped by the authorities against the two white men accused of killing a black man by running him over by a truck and then dragging…
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DA Watch: Tarrant County DA Seeks Recusal Again in Death Row Case Due to Prosecutor Misconduct
Earlier this year, we posted about the Tarrant County DA recusing itself from the Michael Toney case after it was revealed that the District Attorney had failed to turn over extremely important evidence to the defense that might well have kept Toney from being convicted, much less sentenced to Death Row. In the Toney case,…
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DA Watch: Whistleblower San Marcos DA Lynn Peach Resigned Yesterday
Lynn Peach went through law school and started building a legal career in what she thought would be a life as a career prosecutor. Lynn Peach thought she was one of the good guys, pursuing justice. And she is, just not in the way that she thought. On Monday, Hays County Assistant District Attorney Lynn…
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DA Watch: Houston DA Getting Ready to Try Really, Really Old Homicide Cases
There’s lots of news today regarding the spreading of swine flu around the world, along with statewide coverage of Justice Sharon Keller’s pending impeachment by the Texas Legislature and the death of longtime Tarrant District Attorney Tim Curry, who recently lost his battle with cancer. So, it’s interesting that this UPI story isn’t getting more…
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DA Watch: “Dallas DNA” starring new reality TV star DA Craig Watkins debuts April 26
The Discovery Channel will offer you another reality-TV option later this month, just in case you don’t have enough reality-TV options to choose from already: on April 26, “Dallas DNA” makes its first appearance, telling the story of Johnnie Lindsay (see our post on 09/26/08). Investigation Discovery, a part of the Discovery Channel, is focusing…
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Cop Watch: Tenaha Police Highway Robbery Scheme Subject of Fed Class Action Suit
Tenaha is a small Texas town, but it’s on a big traffic route. It sits smack dab in the pathway between Houston and Louisiana’s gambling spots, on US 59 – a highway that’s also known to be a major route for drugs being transported up from Mexico to the South and Midwest. Lotsa cash in…
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