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  Texas House Votes to Limit Death Penalty for Mentally Ill Defendants

  May 10 at 4 a.m.

  Texas House Democrats banded together with some of the chamber’s most conservative members Thursday to pass legislation that would stop Texas juries from sentencing killers with severe mental illnesses to death. Dallas Rep. Toni Rose's bill would require juries who find that a defendant convicted of capital murder was suffering...

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  Dallas DA Creuzot Takes Heat from Council Members Over New Theft Policy

  April 23 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot defended his recent decision to stop prosecuting certain quality-of-life crimes over the objections of members of the Dallas City Council's Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee on Monday. The reforms, Creuzot said, are meant to make Dallas a safer, more equitable city, not to...

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  Local Cop Associations Pile Pressure on Dallas DA Over Reform Policies

  April 19 at 4 a.m.

  To hear Dallas Police Association President Mike Mata tell it, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot's new reforms — Creuzot's office will no longer prosecute certain misdemeanor theft cases or first-time marijuana offenses — stereotype poor people, rather than helping them out. "I take great offense to saying that poor...

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  Humbled Proud Boy: Attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke Claims an Internet ‘Stalker’ Is Ruining His Life

  April 17 at 4 a.m.

  Jason Lee Van Dyke sat at a table next to his defense lawyer in a Denton County courtroom, listening as an attorney for the Texas State Bar spoke about how fearful she was when she received his email message threatening her life. At 38, Van Dyke is stocky like a...

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  What You Need to Know as Grand Jury Hears Case Against Amber Guyger

  Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Monday, a Dallas County grand jury heard evidence in the case against Amber Guyger, the former Dallas Police Department officer who shot and killed Botham Jean. What the grand jury heard or who they heard it from isn't known — grand jury proceedings are secret — but attorneys for Jean's...

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  Dallas Appellate Court Turns Blue for First Time in Almost 20 Years

  Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The Republican majority that Texas’ 5th Court of Appeals held for almost 20 years came to end after last week’s elections in what is probably the real local upset of the midterms. Overnight, the court of 13 Republican judges became majority Democrat with eight winning seats, including a new Democratic...