Texas Governor Spares The Life of Death Row Inmate Thomas Whitaker
Texas Governor Spares The Life of Death Row Inmate Thomas Whitaker It’s extremely rare for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles...Read More
Appeals Court Says Popularity of Cell Phones Isn’t Enough for Probable Cause for a Search
The assumption that most people own a cell phone would not automatically justify an open-ended warrant to search a home anytime officers...Read More
How Much Money Do You Get for Wrongful Imprisonment?
Shouldn’t the law compensate people who are put behind bars for crimes they didn’t commit? For many people, their worst nightmare is...Read More
Funding for Criminal Justice Reform Comes From an Unlikely Source
For one art collector, the path to criminal justice reform lies in a famous Lichtenstein painting Criminal justice reform has been identified...Read More
Report Makes Recommendations for Use of Police Body Cameras
Many police departments have started wearing body cameras that record their encounters with citizens. In recent years, there have been numerous high...Read More
How to Select a Federal Appeals Criminal Defense Attorney
In a federal criminal appeal case, your future is in your lawyer’s hands If you have been convicted of a federal crime,...Read More
Texas Halts Execution of Nicaraguan Illegal Immigrant Convicted of Murder
Texas has an unenviable reputation as the execution capital of the United States. Although the number of executions carried out in Texas...Read More
Supreme Court Rejects Death Row Appeal of Texas Man Who Killed Grandmother
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a first appeal of the conviction of a Texas man against his verdict and death sentence...Read More
Exonerated Manuel Velez is Released from Death Row in Texas
Manuel Velez was on death row in Texas for four of the nine years he had been incarcerated. Last week it was...Read More
Man Convicted of Irving Gas Station Shooting Loses Bid for Stay of Execution
Robert Wayne Harris looks set to be the eighth man to be executed in Texas this year after the Court of Criminal...Read More