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Posted on Apr 11, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
Two city officials were targeted by a man last year in an attempted murder plot. When they shut down a strip club in Texas, the owner devised a plan to have the two men stopped for good. The owner has ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
Two members of the Armed Forces were caught in an undercover investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. The two men are now in custody on a variety of charges for the murder -for-hire scheme ...
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Posted on Mar 5, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
In Beaumont, Texas, local police say that five people were placed under arrest for violent crimes . Allegedly, the people arrested were involved in an altercation that led to a shooting. The fight ...
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Posted on Feb 27, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
Human error is to blame for the accidental early release of a convicted murderer in North Carolina. He has since been captured and sent back to prison by Texas authorities. T.A.W., 31, was transferred ...
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Posted on Feb 20, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
In Clarksville, Texas, local police placed a man under arrest for committing a violent crime . According to their reports, 44-year-old C.H. stabbed a 14-year-old boy on Saturday. Following the ...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
This week in the state of Colorado, police told news sources that they arrested a man from Texas. Allegedly, the man was taken into law enforcement custody because he is believed to be connected to ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
A man already behind bars is set to be transferred to another jail on more serious charges. Police report that the man is wanted for a double murder that took place last November in Texas City. ...
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Posted on Jan 2, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
A man known for his shooting abilities shot and wounded two teenagers last week in Texas. He has since been arrested, but is vehemently denying the charges. The 36-year-old suspect shot and severely ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
In Apprendi v. New Jersey , the Supreme Court of the United States held that any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury and ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A Seagoville High School sophomore was attacked and brutally beaten by another student during geometry class. This was true chaos. A student comes from behind the victim and punches him. The student ...
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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 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 ...
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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 Mar 16, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A Denton man will face a capital murder charge in Dallas as a result of the death of a 76-year-old Dallas woman. Around 5:30 in the evening, Rogelio C. Belmonte approached the victim in a parking lot ...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Mel Gibson pleaded no contest to an assault charge that resulted from a heated argument with his ex-girlfriend. Gibson claims that he slapped her with an open hand, but said that he was concerned for ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
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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Posted on Mar 14, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
In 2009, Kimberly Kates was brutally murdered while in bed. Her killer used a machete, but he was not eligible for execution because it was not one of the enumerated types of murder eligible for ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Nineteen year old, Steven Demund McKnight was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for committing the offense of home invasion (burglary of a habitation) . McKnight broke into an 83-year-old man's ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
In 1993, Hank Skinner was arrested for the murder of a woman and her two adult sons. The woman was Skinner's girlfriend at the time. The prosecution used some of the evidence during trial, but did not ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A Dallas man was arrested for aggravated robbery last night. Terrance Hawkins, 24, is accused of shooting two men at an apartment complex in Dallas. After the shooting, Hawkins is then alleged to have ...
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Posted on Mar 5, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
On Tuesday, William Lee Currie pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated robbery in Weatherford, Texas. According to the Parker County District Attorney's office, in June ...
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Posted on Feb 28, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
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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Posted on Feb 14, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
Early Wednesday morning in South Dallas a man was found fatally shot to death in his home. Police investigators responded at approximately 4 a.m. and found that the victim had suffered multiple ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2010 By Zendeh Del Law
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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Posted on Jul 16, 2010 By Zendeh Del Law
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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