Recent Posts in Government Misconduct Category
Posted on May 6, 2010 By Zendeh Del Law
Fort Worth Criminal Defense Law Firm Fort Worth police are asking victims of assaults near the Rainbow Lounge, a well known gay bar, to come forward. Fairness Fort Worth, an advocacy group for ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2010 By Zendeh Del Law
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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Posted on Feb 2, 2010 By Zendeh Del Law
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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Posted on Jan 25, 2010 By Zendeh Del Law
Texas Criminal Defense Law Firm This is a follow up to our previous post on Deputy Pikett. A Texas sheriff's deputy facing lawsuits for claiming his bloodhounds can sniff out bad guys by matching ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2010 By Zendeh Del Law
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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Posted on Jan 22, 2010 By Zendeh Del Law
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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Posted on Jan 19, 2010 By Zendeh Del Law
Plano, Frisco, Collin County DWI Law Firm Investigators believe an off-duty Plano officer was drunk when he ran a red light and collided with a patrol car driven by an on-duty officer last week, ...
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Posted on Dec 23, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Plano, Frisco, Dallas, Fort Worth DWI Law Firm FORT WORTH - As many as 20 Fort Worth police officers are under investigation by police internal affairs on reports that they were celebrating with an ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Plano, Frisco, Dallas, Fort Worth Criminal Defense Law Firm A judge ruled Tuesday that Kansas law doesn't allow a so-called "necessity defense" in the trial of a man charged with killing ...
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Posted on Oct 15, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Plano, Frisco, Dallas, Fort Worth Criminal Defense Law Firm Immigration Agents Arrest Hundreds in Six Month Texas Gang Probe. DALLAS – Immigration agents arrested 280 people in Texas during a ...
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Posted on Oct 15, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Plano, Frisco, Dallas DWI Lawyer Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he'll pull up at a stoplight ...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Dallas County Criminal Defense Lawyer Dallas police officer is on administrative leave for allegedly soliciting a prostitute. A Dallas police officer is under investigation over allegations that he ...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
This is an update to our previous post on the Dallas County Constable Investigation . Former FBI agent hired to investigate two Dallas County constables testifies before a grand jury. A former FBI ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Investigation of Dallas County constables proved difficult to initiate. When Dallas County Judge Jim Foster tried to persuade someone to investigate alleged wrongdoing involving constables, the ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
On June 28, 2009, the Fort Worth Police Department raided the Rainbow Lounge and began randomly handcuffing and arresting patrons and shoving anyone who dared to ask why. One patron, Chad Gibson, was ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Court blocks execution for 1990 Dallas-area murder By MICHAEL GRACZYK / Associated Press A North Texas man on death row for a slaying almost 19 years ago is mentally impaired, meaning he may not be ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Texas Monthly These 37 men spent 525 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit. Then came the hard part: freedom. The first thing you notice is the eyes-they all have the same look in them, the ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
In detective dramas, a dog's powerful sense of smell has become a predictable crime solver: the trusty canine takes a sniff of a suspect object and follows the scent, eventually coming to the ...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2009 By Zendeh Del Law
Plano DWI Attorney Do prosecutors walk the walk with DWI breath tests? Prosecutors have long complained that elected officials arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated set a poor example ...
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