Four years ago, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice guest by the name of George Morgan filed for a habeas corpus proceeding, which the state asked the court to dismiss. Morgan didn’t take kindly to that, and in response to the state of Texas’s request, Morgan sent to Assistant Attorney…
Dunno why I didn’t think of this sooner — burying a certain 1996 Jeep Cherokee of my acquaintance in a field somewhere, ditching it in a nearby river whose trees are in need of chopping down or just setting the sumbitch on fire. Why not? According to this Associated Press…
First, there was Allen McGill. Then, Andrea Spencer. Then, John Lewis. To that roster of names of folks who’ve pleaded guilty in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, add a fourth: Kevin Dean, president and a principal of Kevin Dean Asphalt Technology and a concrete subcontractor who today in a…
Last night, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins pleaded his case against Dallas County-wide budget cuts in the Garland City Council chambers, where a town hall meeting with Dallas County Commissioner Mike Cantrell, held in front of some 300 audience members, devolved into a scene from The Jerry Springer Show…
In July 2008, federal authorities arrested a Carrollton man named Joseph Kelly Lara, whom the feds had accused of creating a phony name (Nick DeAngelis Mancuso) and a fake job (securities attorney and investment professional), which he then used to sell securities (including Google stock) he claimed he owned but…
I’ve left messages for Mark Taylor, the attorney representing the three men suing Michael Irvin, but I did speak a moment ago with Larry Friedman, who’s repping the former Dallas Cowboy and who’s mentioned in the complaint about which we wrote this morning. And Friedman doesn’t mince words when asked…
Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle tells Unfair Park he expects to launch the so-called no-refusal program full-time in September after key legislation passed Sunday that makes obtaining a blood search warrant easier.”That was the hold up,” says Kunkle, who explains that the old law stipulated that only certain judges could…
As far as Jordan Bealmear, Shannon Clark and Christopher Harding are concerned, Michael Irvin intercepted their idea for a football tryout show. Which is why, late last week, the threesome filed suit against Irvin in Dallas County District Court in which they claim his 4th and Long, currently airing on…
The Martin Scorsese of Lower Greenville may be out of a gig soon: This morning, Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Vince Golbeck, commander of the patrol division, tells Unfair Park that for the past month, he’s been considering taking camera crews to document the late-night and early-morning doings at city’s…
Avi Adelman was out early Sunday morning (2:35 Sunday morning, to be precise) doing what he normally does in the wee small hours of the weekend: videotaping the goings-on on Lower Greenville Avenue. Only this time, he came away with something extra: a ticket accusing him of misdemeanor assault.Adelman declines…
The Texas Senate yesterday refused to send to Governor Rick Perry a bill that included an amendment that would allow law enforcement officers to draw blood from folks suspected of driving under the influence — otherwise known as the no-refusal initiative for which the Dallas Police Department is pushing. Instead,…
Shortly after Judge Carter Thompson said to Jerry Lee Evans, “It’s the court’s hope that your next 23 years are happier than the past 23 years,” Dallas County’s latest DNA exoneree appeared, via satellite, on CNN’s Larry King Live. He was joined by Dallas County public defender Michelle Moore –…
After spending 23 years in a prison cell for a crime he did not commit, Jerry Lee Evans’s first order of business is a Big Mac from McDonald’s. So said the man who, at a little after 2 p.m. today, was welcomed back to the free world by Judge Carter…
A word of caution before you head out for the long Memorial Day weekend: It’s also No-Refusal Weekend. Which means? Well, if Dallas police pull suspect you’re drinking and driving, you’ll be stuck with a butterfly needle attached to a vacuum-packed container, and two vials’ worth of your blood will…
Former Dallas County judge and prosecutor Catherine Crier left her hometown long, long ago — exactly 20 years ago, matter of fact, when she swapped the bench for the bright lights of CNN, then ABC, then Fox News Channel, then Court TV and a series of books. Says her bio…
Courthouse News this morning highlights the story of Ginger Weatherspoon, a former assistant attorney general in Greg Abbott’s office who claims she was fired after refusing to lie under oath about 254th District Judge David Hanschen. Weatherspoon, who worked from July 2006 through February ’08 in the the Office of…
The Garland police officer involved in a shooting that left a suicidal 17-year-old boy dead on March 19 is back on duty after an administrative leave and departmental review, according to a department spokesperson. “That review has been done, and he’s been released, and he’s back on the streets,” says…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins certainly likes to make an entrance, which isn’t hard to do when you’re 6-foot-5, star of a nationally broadcast reality mini-series, a recent guest on The View and the subject of countless gushing profiles for your office’s work in helping to free the wrongfully…
In about an hour, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle will go before the city council’s Public Safety Committee to present the city’s latest crime statistics, at least as counted through the end of April. This sneak peek, for those who can’t read be bothered to read the whole four pages…
Jose and Alicia Elizondo, the parents of a Garland teen who died on March 19 from gunshot wounds suffered after a Garland police officer responded to a 911 call for a suicide attempt, have filed a civil rights and wrongful death suit in Dallas County District Court. The 15-page lawsuit…
Unfair Park had two visitors this morning: Enrique Hubbard Urrea, consul general for the Mexican Consulate on Stemmons Freeway, and Jesus Contreras Cantu, the consul of media affairs. They stopped by to address the lawsuit we mentioned yesterday in which the consulate is referred to as “a ‘lawless’ world where…
Dallas County public defender Michelle Moore — who’s on loan to Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s Conviction Integrity Unit — chimed in last night with a comment on Unfair Park. Specifically, she wanted to clear up any, well, let’s just say misunderstandings stemming from last week’s item concerning something…
