Criminal Law Blog
Veteran Dallas Cop To Be Fired After Discovery That He Lied In His Police Reports
Another veteran Texas cop is discovered to be bad news — seems like this is getting to be a regular news story, right? This week, it was the Dallas Police Department who had the shameful task of informing the media and the public at large that a police force veteran (13 years) would face termination…
Texas Cop Busted for Sex with Robbery Suspect and Falsifying Overtime Pay
Edinburg police officer Robert Alvarez already had his fifteen minutes of fame back in 2009, when he appeared in an episode of “Gangland,” a television show on the History Channel. As a gang investigator, Alvarez was a respected law enforcement professional whose skills were highlighted on the national cable TV series in an episode entitled,…
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…
Texas DA Pleads Guilty to Felonies: Will Serve Jail Time, Pay Fine – and Return $2.16 Million He Took
The big news this month down in Alice, Texas (which lies between San Antonio and Corpus Christi, if you’re wondering) is not that former Brooks County and Jim Wells County district attorney Joe Frank Garza has made a deal with prosecutors rather than face trial on a number of felony charges. No, the big news…
More Cops Arrested for Breaking the Law: Two in Dallas, More in El Paso
In Dallas, two police officers have been arrested within the past week for doing bad things. Neither one was on duty at the time. Dallas Police Officer Ralph McAfee was arrested on Sunday evening at his home after he and his girlfriend had a fight that apparently escalated into something that resulted in Officer McAfee…
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…
Texas Police Are Tracking Your Every Move – Right Now – Through Automatic License Plate Readers Databases: Anyone Bother to Get Your Okay?
Automatic License Plate Readers, also known as License Plate Recognition Devices, have creeped into the daily routines of police departments across the State of Texas and elsewhere under the guise of cutting edge law enforcment technology used to capture criminals. What the American public and the Texas citizenry are not being told is that it’s…
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…
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…
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…
