Let's get back to Kim's item about Roderick Newton, scheduled to be executed by the state on Thursday, for just a minute. And let's go ahead and set aside the issue of "mental retardation." Instead, focus on the second of three claims Newton's attorneys make in the writ filed today -- the one that alleges a so-called Brady violation, which refers to the burying of exculpatory evidence. It would appear that very thing happened when Newton was being tried for the murder of Jesus Montoya in M
It may not be election time, but tonight at 7, two politicians will duke it out at Friendship-West Baptist Church: In this corner ... Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. And in this corner ... Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price -- well, maybe as the commish has been extended an invite, but we're keeping our fingers crossed real hard in hopes he'll show up ready for a fight. Reffing the bout: the church's senior pastor and Friend of the Mayor, Frederick Haynes. At stake: th
