Year: 2015
DNA evidence plays a major part in criminal investigations and cases and it can be collected from some unlikely sources. Recently the Dallas Morning News reported on how newly discovered hairs collected from a vacuum cleaner will be subjected to DNA testing to see whether any belong to a Fort Worth woman who went missing…
Dallas federal criminal defense firm Broden & Mickelsen, LLP outlines four major differences between Texas state and federal courts. Thousands of people are charged with criminal offenses and processed through court systems throughout the U.S. each year. For those seeking a caring criminal defense attorney for their case, one thing that is critical to obtaining the…
Executive clemency is the process in which an offender is granted a pardon by the President. Typically hundreds of cases were put in front of the President every year. However, a recent article by Slate.com claimed the pardon process is “broken” and the names of fewer and fewer candidates are appearing in the Oval Office….
In 2015 most people have easy access to videos and cameras on their cellphones. The change has meant police and deputies face unprecedented scrutiny from the public over their methods. A case in point is a report this month that authorities in Texas are examining two videos recorded by members of the public that show…
Texas has an unenviable reputation as the execution capital of the United States. Although the number of executions carried out in Texas has fallen in recent years, it remains ground zero for capital punishment. In some cases the state has pursued the ultimate sanction even when alarming questions linger over the original convictions. A case…
Cases in which doctors cause harm to patients usually come under the remit of the civil law when the victims or their families being wrongful death lawsuits. But a former Plano neurosurgeon is being dealt with under the criminal law after he is accused of deliberately harming patients. The Dallas Morning News reported on how…
Over the past year we have become used to images of protestors holding signs with slogans like “unarmed,” and “I can’t breathe,” after deaths of inmates at the hands of law enforcement officers across America. But the latest images of a protest were closer to home in Dallas. The protest was organized by the family…
There are few more disturbing crimes than mass shootings in which children are the victims. Over the weekend, the bodies of five children and three adults were found in a Houston-area home after a standoff with a suspect who was holed up in the house. Police said a man who exchanged gunfire with the police…
Dallas sexual offense attorney news update: More than two years after Texas started to require all law enforcement agencies to tally up and submit all previously untested rape kits for testing, Dallas Police still have as many as 4,000 untested rape kits. But the department is now getting to work on the backlog, leading to…
The deaths of African Americans at the hands of police officers have dominated headlines nationally over the last 18 months. Texas has not been immune to cases like this. In the Dallas area, the death of a woman in a Waller County jail cell has sparked a protest in the city and elsewhere in the…