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All About Child Abuse

Elizabeth Escalona lost custody of her two-year-old this week when she glued the child’s hands to a wall and beat her as a punishment for not submitting to potty training. The child fell into a ...
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Justice Prevails for Ben Amini

Justice Prevails for Accused Businessman The world over, America is viewed as a place for opportunity where you can build a future for your family. Since coming to the United States, Bahman Hafez ...
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Justice According to the Texas Penal Code § 12.44

In the state of Texas, the penal code allows that a felony can be punished as a misdemeanor under certain circumstances. In Chapter 12 of the Texas Penal Code, it says that those who are convicted of ...
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Son to be Reunited with Parents after Being Kidnapped by Babysitter Eight Years Ago

In Houston, Texas, multiple news sources are covering a story involving a young boy that was kidnapped over eight years ago. According to the reports, the boy was taken by his babysitter and may now ...
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Chase Bank Hit Again: Man Robs Chase Bank In Grand Prairie

Last Friday, a man entered a Grand Prairie Chase Bank around 4:30 p.m. Like yesterdays blog entry, the man handed a bank teller a note that demanded money. The amount of money that was demanded was ...
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Woman Robs Bank In Plano

Just earlier this week a woman entered the lobby of Chase Bank in Plano, Texas. She then proceeded to the teller and gave her a note that demanded money. The teller complied and gave the robber some ...
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Former Ohio State and NFL Quarterback Art Schlichter Charged With 13 Counts Of Theft

Schilicter, 51, was charged in a 13-count indictment that alleges that he stole $680,000 from the 69-year-old widow of former Wendy's president and chairman Robert Barney. Schilicter was kicked of the ...
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Ennis Woman Allows Husband To Take Pornographic Pictures Of Daughter

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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Dallas Executive Sentenced To 25 Years In Securities Fraud Scheme

Jeffrey Bruteyn, former managing director of AmeriFirst Funding Corp, was sentenced to 25 years for a scheme that raised more than $50 million for more than 600 investors from Texas and Florida. Many ...
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Plano Couple Facing Federal Charges

In Plano, Texas a couple facing federal charges for hiding a Sri Lankan woman in their home and forcing her to work for them through threats, have pleaded not guilty to the charges. Nagham Hasan ...
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Federal Sex Offender List

Texas is engaged in a battle with the federal government regarding the Adam Walsh Act. This a federal law aimed at creating a national sex offender registry. The federal law will divide those ...
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East Texas Church Arsonists Sentenced to Additional Life Sentences

Recently, two men who are already facing multiple consecutive life prison terms for arson charges have plead guilty to starting additional fires. The two men, Jason Robert Bourque and Daniel George ...
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Dallas Rapper's Home Raided by DEA

In the early morning on Tuesday February 8, Dorwin Demarcus Dorrough, better known by his rapper name Dorrough, was awoken when DEA agents kicked in his door during a raid intent on finding evidence ...
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Super Bowl Attracts Pimps and Sex Trafficking

During the Super Bowl this Sunday, it is believed by the Bexar County Human Trafficking Task Force that San Antonio women may have been taken to Dallas in order to make money off of the large influx ...
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Why You Should NEVER Talk to the Police (part 2) - Roger Clemens Indicted for Obstruction, Lying About Steroid Use

This post is a follow up to Why You Should NEVER Talk to the Police. Apparently Roger Clemens didn't get the message. Roger Clemens Indicted for Obstruction, Lying About Steroid Use Roger Clemens, ...
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Why You Should NEVER Talk to the Police

Most experienced defense lawyers will tell you that the first words out of their mouth when they get the 3AM phone call from the jail are: "don't say anything!" But for some reason, criminally accused ...
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Child Pornography Bust in Houston

Police in Houston, Texas have uncovered what investigators report as the largest child pornography collection they have ever seen. Todd Ewanko, a 46 year old pilot, is being charged with possession ...
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Texas Doctor Found Guilty in Online Pharmacy Scam

A Texan doctor and a Texan pharmacy owner have both pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges. The conspiracy, a web-based pharmacy that doled out highly dangerous and highly addictive opiates, earned ...
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New DNA Evidence Exonerates Innocent Men

Over the past 10 years, 39 Texas inmates have been exonerated in light of new DNA evidence. 19 of those men were from nearby Dallas County alone. All were wrongfully convicted of crimes such as rape, ...
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Local Control of Gun Laws Diminished by Supreme Court

Gun rights advocates have won another victory. Although the 2nd Amendment states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear ...
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Report Finds States Holding Fewer Prisoners

Texas Criminal Defense Law Firm State prison populations, which have grown for nearly four decades, have begun to dip, according to a new report, largely because of recent efforts to keep parolees out ...
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State Rep. Terri Hodge Pleads Guilty in Dallas Bribery Case

Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers A Texas lawmaker has pleaded guilty to participating in a bribery scheme and will resign. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Dallas announced Wednesday that State Rep. Terri ...
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Death Penalty Pursuit: Cost v. Certainty

Texas Criminal Defense Law Firm More prosecutors are deciding not to seek the death penalty in cases where it's an option, two local district attorneys said after two cases in which pursuing the ...
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Trial Begins accusing El Paso Judge Barraza of accepting bribes.

Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Judge takes $4,800 on video: Jurors see payoffs from sister of inmate Jurors on Thursday sat transfixed as they watched two videotapes of state judge Manuel Barraza ...
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FBI broke the law to get phone data

Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Under Bush, agency allegedly used false terror threats to get 2,000 records. The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush ...
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