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  Days from Death, Rodney Reed Gets Stay of Execution

  Friday, November 15, 2019 at 6:01 p.m.

  Rodney Reed will not be executed next week. Late Friday afternoon, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Texas' highest criminal court, granted Reed, convicted of capital murder in 1998, a stay of execution so that the trial court in his case can evaluate new evidence. [pdf-1] As Reed's execution date...

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  Texas Democratic Party Challenges New Voting Law

  Monday, November 4, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  The Texas Democratic Party filed a lawsuit last week challenging Texas' new ban on mobile voting, which took effect just before this election cycle. Critics say the law suppresses student voters.

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  Dallas Can Grieve for Botham Jean Without Bowing to Shame

  Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  The death of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old accountant and innocent man, and the trial of his killer, former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, have challenged Dallas as no event since the 2016 murders of five police officers in one terrible night downtown. Now as then, a big part of this...

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  DPD Says Guyger Witness Killed in Drug Deal Gone Wrong

  Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 3:07 p.m.

  Joshua Brown, a witness for the prosecution against former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger, was killed during a drug deal that went bad, according to one of the participants in the would-be deal. Thaddeous Green, 22, shot Brown, 28, twice in the lower body after a fight interrupted a...

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  Key Witness in Guyger Murder Trial Shot and Killed in Dallas

  Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 5:04 p.m.

  One of the state's most memorable witnesses against former Dallas Police Department officer Amber Guyger was shot and killed late Friday night in Dallas, Lee Merritt, one of the civil attorneys representing Botham Jean's family, confirmed Saturday. Joshua Brown, 28, lived across the hall from Jean in September 2018. Almost...

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  Judge’s Hug of Guyger After Sentencing Draws Scrutiny

  Friday, October 4, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Moments after Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday, Judge Tammy Kemp hugged the former police officer and handed over her personal Bible. "This will strengthen you," Kemp could be overheard telling Guyger. "You just need a tiny mustard seed of faith." Now, Kemp is drawing fire...