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  Dallas Taking Municipal Courts on the Road This Month

  February 13 at 4 a.m.

  Never let it be said that Dallas isn't doing its best to make things easier on you, dear residents. Later this month, thanks to the city's largess, you'll be able to experience all the fun of a municipal court proceeding, right in your own backyard. That's right, everyone in Dallas...

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  Court Reporter Shortage Looms on Horizon for Texas

  February 3 at 4 a.m.

  Are you sick of staring at cubicle walls all day? Tired of getting stiffed on the tip after serving a table of 10? Completely finished with the thought of going to a tedious day job that never seems to change, unless it’s becoming either more tedious or simply less rewarding?...

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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...