Harper’s Washington Editor Ken Silverstein has many thoughts on the DNA exoneration of Cornelius Dupree Jr. yesterday, when a Dallas County judge acknowledged that the 51-year-old man served 30 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Silvestein delineates some of the myriad “weaknesses of the criminal justice…
Dallas attorney Ralph Janvey’s still combing through Allen Stanford’s financials to see who got some of that money made in the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that landed the Texas financier in prison, where, one day, he’ll face a federal trial (maybe). Janvey, who was appointed receiver, wants that money so he…
“It’s a joy to be free again,” Cornelius Dupree Jr. told a courtroom full of lawyers, courthouse staff, media members and several fellow DNA exonerees this morning during his very brief testimony. Dupree spent 30 years in jail serving time for a robbery and rape he did not commit, but…
We close out the holiday with a look at the Dallas Police Department’s look at how Dallas spent the New Year’s weekend, per a series of stats-filled missives sent out by Senior Corporal Kevin Janse. First, for those wondering whether the threat of a mandatory blood draw works, there were…
If it’s a major holiday likely to involve a drink or two or 12, it’s time for … you guessed it: the Dallas Police Department’s No-Refusal DWI Initiative! Let’s not waste time recapping the what-the-whats. Release the release!The No-Refusal Initiative will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, December 31, 2010,…
Some grim news with which to close out the year, almost …The day after Christmas, Bradley Eyo was found shot to death on Barnes Bridge Road near Lake Ray Hubbard. But Dallas homicide detective and Garland police discovered during their investigation that Eyo, whose friends have made him this tribute,…
A virtual jaunt ’round the Western Hemisphere has led FBI investigators to anonymous users who appear to have used servers from a Dallas-based server company to disable and disrupt PayPal after the money-wiring site froze a WikiLeaks donations account earlier this month. The Smoking Gun has excerpts from the FBI…
As quiet as Dealey Plaza’s been since the truth-bearing publishers were cleared out, you could forgive a few tourists for being concerned this morning to find the place crawling with cops. Surrounded by Dallas police, some in Gang Unit windbreakers, one officer was able to reassure an elderly woman that…
No doubt you’ve heard the tale of Sandy McGriff, the 52-year-old Church of the Living God pastor — and a former prostitute with more than 12 aliases, according to the Dallas Police Department — who was spotted breaking into congregant Serita Agnew’s house on Christmas Eve and is accused of…
Back in September, we pointed out what a busy summer it’d been for Denton lawyer Evan Stone, as he kicked off a crusade against BitTorrent users who’d been illegally sharing porn movies. After three months, he had filed a few hundred suits right here in the Dallas federal court, alleging…
Early this afternoon, my wife called from the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Harvest Hill and asked: What’s up with all the police cars? I told her what I knew at the time, via Dallas Police media bulletins: A man had attempted to rob a bank in the…
Late Saturday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that, along with the Humane Society of the United States, it broke up an enormous cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas. As it turns out, The Texas Tribune’s cameras accompanied DPD during the bust, which resulted in only a few arrests — since,…
The Associated Press this morning directs our attention to this year-in-review: The Death Penalty in 2010, released at midnight by the D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Says the report, Texas is still executing more inmates than any other state — 17 in 2010, the lowest in almost a decade –…
As The American Independent reminds this morning, there have been myriad bills proposed in the Texas Legislature in recent years that would allow for the creation of so-called sobriety checkpoints. And last year’s S.B. 298 — submitted by state Sen. John Corona and co-authored by, among others, his colleague from…
A week ago Sunday, the Dallas Police Department sent word that officers had lost James Huffer Jr., who was arrested earlier that morning near Cedar Springs and the Dallas North Tollway following a family violence call. Huffer, as you’ll recall, managed to steal a Dallas PD squad car while wearing…
The Dallas Police Department sends word this evening: The Humane Society of the United States shot some undercover video of what sounds like a mammoth cockfighting operation in Southeast Dallas — where, the release says, “cruel cockfights were reportedly occurring in a large run-down structure on a regular basis.” As…
[Update: Cheryl Potashnik was given two years probation and has to pay $50,000 to the U.S. District Clerk within seven days. Brian was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison and will be on probation for two years following his release. He also was ordered to pay $1.25 million to…
To begin the day, some housekeeping …A happy ending to yesterday’s story about the kidnapping of Eileen Loskot: She was found dehydrated but otherwise unharmed in New Mexico, and one of the three young men involved has been arrested. Her husband is heading to Amarillo to get her. …Lee Harvey…
The woman at right is Eileen Loskot, a 54-year-old woman last seen leaving her job — somewhere in the 2300 block of Reagan Street, between Harry Hines Boulevard and the Dallas North Tollway — a little after 1 this morning in her red 2004 Infiniti G35. At 12:07 this afternoon,…
Back in June we broke the news that Robert Groden, perhaps the most familiar (and certainly the most respected) of all the Dealey Plaza vendors peddling JFK assassination materials, had been arrested and detained by Dallas Police officers on the clean-up crackdown. Groden filed a federal suit claiming, among other…
Moments ago, the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word in two back-to-back e-mails that two former government employees — one, an agent in the Dallas FBI office; the other, a city of Garland risk management adjuster — have copped to breaking the law. Let’s begin with the FBI agent.Her name is…
We may not have Detective Dan Stark out there to protect us anymore, but this morning a handful of local agencies put their guns together to see how they’d handle responding to a major attack on the city.Dallas Fire-Rescue, Dallas Police (including SWAT teams and a bomb squad) and medical…
