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July 1, 2014
If You're in Jail Without Charges, Dallas Cops Want More Time To Build a Case Against You
For 25 years, people arrested in Dallas County but not sure why have been protected under more or less the same rule. Dallas cops have three whole business days to figure out what to charge an arrested person with and get the paperwork in, not including the day you were actually arrested. (Booked i ... More >>
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February 17, 2014
Dallas Attorney Lisa Blue Appears to Be Bankrolling Attacks on Democratic Judge Lena Levario
Amongst the stack of campaign literature that showed up in my mailbox on Saturday, two fliers caught my eye. One featured photograph of a smiling, competent-looking Tammy Kemp, a top administrator in District Attorney Craig Watkins' office currently running for judge in the 204th Criminal District C ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2013
Watkins and Price: Democrats or Blackocrats?
Not that the office of district attorney isn't political anyway. In the old days when the Republican old guard dangled the local district attorney on puppet strings, the office functioned as a kind of collection agency for the well connected. Walk away from a deal with one of those guys, and the dis ... More >>
Blogs
August 28, 2013
Craig Watkins, Master of Literary Technique, Is Misquoting Twain and Comparing Local Courts to North Korea's
District Attorney Craig Watkins has escaped from the contempt-of-court allegations that have dogged him for six months like Charlie Brown's personal rain cloud. A specially appointed judge -- a Republican from Wichita Falls who is far removed from Dallas County political intrigue -- ruled that the h ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2013
Craig Watkins' Reputation Tattered by Judge's Damning Ruling in Hill Case
Most people have no idea what getting convicted of a crime really would do to them. Really. Not like on TV. As a reporter you catch glimpses. The real damage does not have to do with cops or courthouses. It's not even prison. It's the kid in the window. A man I know told me once about a moment of e ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2013
Craig Watkins' Attorneys Are Outraged that Special Prosecutor Said the Word "Noose"
We've given up on following the ins-and-outs of Craig Watkins' contempt case. It has long since passed the popcorn stage and descended into the incomprehensible legal muck. The back-and-forth between Watkins and his enemies has strayed so far that the actual matter at hand -- whether the DA brought ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2013
Outcome of District Attorney Craig Watkins' Contempt Case Still Up in the Air
Today was supposed to be the day when we found out whether District Attorney Craig Watkins' contempt of court citation would be upheld. State District Judge Bob Brotherton traveled here from Wichita Falls just to make the decision. What he decided instead was that the original contempt charge hadn't ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2013
Craig Watkins Painted Himself into a Corner in His Contempt Case. Now What?
So this is easy, isn't it? Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins himself will prove whether he's a crook or not by refiling or not refiling his big case against Al Hill III. What's it going to be? Either he does follow through on his threat to refile, because he thinks Hill's lawyers and th ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2013
By Holding Craig Watkins in Contempt, Judge Lena Levario Shows She's a Good Democrat. Some Dallas Democrats May Disagree.
So who is this Democrat judge, Lena Levario, who not only stands up to Democratic Party golden boy Craig Watkins, our embattled district attorney, but holds him in contempt of court? Does she not understand the most basic tenet of Dallas County Democratic Party philosophy -- that Dr. King died so th ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2013
Judge Dismisses Charges against Al Hill III after Craig Watkins Refuses to Answer Questions
Update, 3:52 p.m.: The Dallas Morning News' Jennifer Emily tweets that the case against Hill has been dismissed. Judge Levario cited Watkins' refusal to testify as part of her basis for dismissal. Original post: Craig Watkins wasn't sick today, and contrary to the inexplicably wrong tweets from o ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2013
Federal Judge Finds No Proof of Misconduct by Craig Watkins, but that Won't Help Him in State Court
The District Attorney's office very excitedly announced today that a federal judge found no merit in Al Hill III's allegations of misconduct against Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins. The allegations stem from a dispute Hill had concerning legal fees he owed his former attorney Lisa Blue, a pr ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2013
Craig Watkins Thumbs Nose at a Court Order, Unveils New Theory of White People Law
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins started out with one question to answer. Now that he has defied a subpoena, he's got at least a couple more. Last week Watkins was ordered to appear in the court of state District Judge Lena Levario to answer an accusation that he brought criminal charg ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2013
Dallas County DA Craig Watkins Says He Was Too Sick to Testify in His Misconduct Case
A hearing to determine if Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins committed prosecutorial misconduct was postponed today after Watkins refused to appear in court. The allegations were brought by attorneys of Al Hill III, who was charged with mortgage fraud by the DA's office shortly before a ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Dallas County Does a Three-Fer in Exonerations
The number of convicts being freed after serving prison time for crimes they didn't commit keeps mounting in Dallas County, with Friday bringing a rare triple exoneration for three men wrongly accused of robbery. On November 17, 1994, five teenagers roamed the parking lot near the Eckerd drugstore ... More >>
News
August 11, 2011
Kevin Glasheen Fought to See Innocent Prisoners Compensated, Then Fought To Take Millions For Himself
The Lubbock lawyer teamed up with Innocent Project lawyer Jeff Blackburn to see the state compensation for exonerees raised. Now both men are under fire from their clients.
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Judge Who Had Chance to Free Stephen Brodie in '94 Gets Another Chance This Morning
Mark GrahamJudge Lena LevarioJeff Carlton at the Associated Press was the one who, in July, first offered the story of Stephen Brodie -- the deaf man who, in 1991, was detained by Richardson police for stealing quarters out of a soda machine and ended up pleading guilty to the unsolved sexual ass ... More >>
News
August 2, 2007
A Bust Goes Bust
A former Dallas Police officer says her partner had no right to search a car for drugs
Blogs
December 7, 2006
Target Practice
Brian Gray, at left, says Shelley Hallman is hanging up pictures of him affixed to a shooting-range target. Dude, who hasn't been there? Felony prosecutor Shelley Hallman, who prosecutes death penalty cases and has a knack for acting like a 7-year-old, has struck again. The wife of failed district a ... More >>
News
November 30, 2006
Trial by Fire
A rookie Democratic judge faces tough on-the-job training
News
November 16, 2006
Accidental Victors
Wait...we voted for who?
Blogs
November 8, 2006
Watkins: Not Entirely Shook Up?
Toby Shook isn't gonna be Dallas County District Attorney, but that doesn't mean Craig Watkins is ready to get rid of his former opponent. Dallas County District Attorney-elect Craig Watkins didn't exactly ease concerns that he wasn't quite up for the job during the Dallas County Democratic Party v ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2006
All Shook Up
Prosecutor Shelley Hallman, the wife of Republican candidate for District Attorney Toby Shook, will probably not be asked to write the couple's Christmas cards this year. In this week's feature story about the questionable legal tactics of prosecutor Shelley Hallman, we include a rather unprofession ... More >>
News
October 19, 2006
Double Trouble
A new gay LULAC chapter fights discrimination on two fronts
News
October 19, 2006
Can I Get a Witness?
The District Attorney's Office gets the right guy for the wrong reason.
Blogs
September 5, 2006
We Never Say "Told Ya So." Never.
From the Associated Press today: "During the spring protests that brought hundreds of thousands to the streets, Hispanic immigrants chanted a promise and a threat to politicians: 'Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote.' So far, however, there is no indication that such a potent political legacy is dev ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2006
Schutze Reads DMN Story, Then Votes "No"
Domingo Garcia said 10,000 Latinos registered to vote after April's mega-march. Uh, not so much. Sorry, my colleagues over in the youth wing at the Dallas Observer may pooh-pooh, but I think Lee Hancock's series on the Mary Ellen Bendtsen story (old lady on Swiss Avenue exploited by vultures) has be ... More >>
News
December 2, 2004
On Your Watch
Those are scary words for Dallas' top cops
News
October 28, 2004
Do Something
Fake-drug report shows we have to fix City Hall
News
August 30, 2001
The Lazarus Effect
Moribund Dallas County Democrats set their sights on judgeships

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