Blog Posts in April, 2011
Posted on Apr 29, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
The 48-year-old Dykstra was arrested for embezzling over $400,000 of property from a bankruptcy estate. In 2009, Dykstra filed for bankruptcy. As a general rule, when a person files for bankruptcy, ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker are the leading online poker sites in the United States. The Internet poker marks was approximately $5.1 billion and the global online gambling market ...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Timothy Esteban Tinner, wanted by the Potter County Sheriff's Office, was recently added to the Texas Top 10 Most Wanted listed. He was wanted for assault causing bodily injury when he beat a woman. ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Timothy Rosales Jr., 39, was convicted in 1985 of two counts of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. In January, Rosales was staying at a halfway house when he fled ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
In 1994, Anthony Graves was convicted of killing six people, four of the murdered were children. Graves spent twelve years on death row and was faced with two execution dates. He always proclaimed his ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
After a year of sitting in jail being branded a "cop killer" the Dallas County District Attorney's office has dropped charges against him. Last August, the Dallas District Attorney announced that Gary ...
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Posted on Apr 21, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Charged in federal court , an Ennis woman pleaded guilty to allowing her husband to take pornographic pictures of her young daughter. In February, the Ennis Police Department got a tip that after the ...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A Crime Stopper's tip led to the arrest of Javier Duenas, age 19, a man charged with aggravated robbery. Last week, we posted a blog entry that contained a video of a man that was attempting to pull a ...
Continue reading "Update: One Suspect Arrested In Purse Snatching That Was Caught On Video" »
Posted on Apr 19, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Last August, a man entered the Salem District Court clerk's office and pretended to be his own brother. He then handed a clerk a death certificate that showed that he had passed away. The death ...
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Posted on Apr 18, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
The owner of a Rhode Island funeral home has been charged with embezzling money from living clients. He is charged with stealing over $27,000 from clients who purchased "pre need" contracts which ...
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Posted on Apr 15, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
On March 29, 2011, a woman was in the parking lot of a coffee bar when two people get out of a Nissan Maxima. They approach the woman's SUV as she gets out two get something out of the trunk. The man ...
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Posted on Apr 14, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
An interesting study on the Texas prison system was done by a subset of the Pew Charitable Trusts--The Pew Center on the States. The Center studies State policy decisions and researches policy ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A man in Tennessee was arrested for a felony offense of .... stealing a pizza. It all started when a woman and her boyfriend were hungry for a late night pizza. They ordered it from Pizza Hut and ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
The Texas Legislature has passed a bill that would make it a crime to send text or email messages from a cellphone while driving. Already man states and local municipalities have laws that forbid a ...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Attorney Joseph Rakofsky , a newly graduated attorney who opened up his own law office, was admonished by trial judge for his performance during a murder trial. In fact, the judge stated that he was ...
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Posted on Apr 8, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
During an exorcism of her 13-month-old daughter, a Rusk County woman bludgeoned her daughter to death. The child's head was smashed in by a hammer. Upon being questioned by the police, the couple made ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Qin Zhang, owner of Healthy Massage, placed black tint over her windows to hide her business. She was recently charged with operating a massage parlor without a license. She would also offer herself ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Emily Beth McDonald, 25, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years. In exchange for her plea-bargain, the charges were reduced from first-degree injury to a child to second-degree injury to a ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A husband and wife team of school teachers in the Dallas ISD are charged with sexually assaulting several juveniles. The man, Jesse Castillo, is charged with three counts and the wife, Virginia ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
In 1984, John Thompson was convicted of murder and a car jacking. During the trial, prosecutors deliberately concealed a blood sample and police lab report that would have established his innocence. ...
Continue reading "The United States Supreme Court Overturns Exonerated Inmate's $14 Million Verdict" »
Posted on Apr 1, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A very interesting case was recently argued at the United States Supreme Court. The issue is whether the age of the juvenile suspect should be taken into account into account in deciding whether the ...
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