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Court of Inquiry To Be Held On Morton Wrongful Conviction Judge Sid Harle signed a probable cause affidavit today that will now go to the...
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I don't know anything about the most recent murder case (or one of the two most recent cases) in Kerrville. The Hill Country Community ...
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Drug Trafficker sold out Laredo Lawyer From San Antonio Express-News A Laredo lawyer who pleaded guilty last week to a racketeering charg...
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A lawyer named Mark Clark from New Braunfels is (was?) out on bond after his conviction for sexually molesting a young girl. From the San A...
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The headline: "Man Pleads Guilty to Biting Officer After Twins Tussle With Police." This is almost a Keystone Kops story, excep...
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There may be a county in Texas worse than Kimble. In Red River County (east Texas) the DA and district judge have a view of blacks and how ...
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National Inventory of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction , or how a minor drug offense can ruin your life. Collateral consequences ...
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It is fascinating to see how people in Kerrville have reacted to the Gary and Peggy Stork murder-suicide (??) case. It seems that a substan...
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News media are reporting that s hortly before he was shot to death by a troubled former Marine at a Texas gun range, legendary Navy SEAL s...
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Gary Stork was under investigation for sexual contact with a minor alleged to have occurred over the July 4 weekend. Police began thei...
Monday, August 27, 2012
Bishop Busted for DWI; Darwin at Work; Obama the Narcissist in Chief
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Shave Hasan's Beard!
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Chesty the Marine Corps Bulldog; Crooked Lawyer and Cop Roundup; Hiding Behind the Bible
Chesty the Marine Corps Bulldog Mascot Promoted to Sgt.
The Wall Street Journal has a hilarious story about the USMC mascot, an English Bulldog named after Chesty Puller, being promoted to sergeant in spite of growling at Leon Pannetta's golden retriever. Wonder what he'd do if he met Obama?
The gang that couldn't shoot straight
Empire State shooting: 6 of 9 wounded bystanders hit by bullet fragments from cops' gunfire New York Daily News
Shooter Jeffrey Johnson didn't get a shot in as officers approached, Kelly said. Cops fired 16 shots, taking down the cold-blooded killer and wounding 9 others.
Former HPD cop accused of taking $8k from wife's boss in armed robbery
A former Houston police officer is accused of robbing his wife's place of business, after forcing her into the office building at gunpoint.
Ray Faustino Acuna, 26, who resigned Feb. 2 from the Houston Police Department, allegedly took nearly $8,000 from a law firm in the 1700 block of Lubbock Street during an armed robbery at 9:30 a.m. Monday.
Surveillance video shows that a man later identified as Acuna, wearing a blue bandana over most of his face, pointed a black, semi-automatic handgun at his wife as she was in the parking lot behind the business. Holding her right arm, the man forced her inside the building, according to court records.
Leon Valley cop is charged in assault
A Leon Valley police officer is free on bail but on administrative leave after being accused of assaulting his girlfriend's daughter at his Northwest Bexar County home.
Anthony Martinez, 33, was released from Bexar County Jail after posting $15,000 bail. He faces one charge of assaulting a family member by choking or strangulation.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Cop-accused-of-hurting-girlfriend-s-daughter-3813315.php#ixzz24ZCLEna1
Human trafficking ring leaders arrested in Austin, police say
Police say they arrested the "main pimps" from two human trafficking rings that authorities said forced women into prostitution and moved them around the nation.
Two men and a woman who were working in two interconnected rings were arrested Thursday night in Austin. Police found four victims — two from Houston and two from Florida — who were being forced into prostitution, Austin police Lt. Jerry Gonzalez said.
Police arrested Solomon Pate, 26, Demetrick Cooks, 26, and Rebecca Chap, 26, after two women escaped in Round Rock on Tuesday and went to the Round Rock Police Department, arrest records said.
Texas man freed after DNA clears him of 1988 rape
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A man who spent more than two decades behind bars was freed Friday after DNA evidence cleared him in the rape of a 14-year-old Fort Worth girl.
David Lee Wiggins was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1989, although neither of the two fingerprints found at the scene matched his. The girl, whose face was covered during most of the attack, picked Wiggins out of a photo lineup and then a live lineup, saying he looked familiar.
But DNA testing earlier this month excluded Wiggins as the person who committed the crime. Tarrant County prosecutors said DNA evidence demonstrated his innocence.
Lawyer who reaped benefits now faces charges
San Antonio Hilda Valadez was indicted on 46 felony counts, including a scheme stretching back years in which she allegedly forged the signatures of judges to obtain payments for legal services.
A year before the sheriff's office started investigating the forgeries, Valadez appeared on my radar. Last year SAExNews reporter Brian Chasnoff revealed that local courts in 2010 were ignoring the Fair Defense Act, a state law requiring judges to appoint lawyers for poor defendants using a rotating list of attorneys, known as “the wheel.”
Valadez raked in more than $403,000 on indigent defense in three years.
In the same time, the average attorney earned just $32,500. It appears some of that was stolen.And this is not the first time she's been accused of stealing.
About five years ago, she was arrested at North Star Mall for shoplifting a $325 pair of sunglasses.
Warren Jeffs, FLSD, Religion and Child Rape
I'm listening to a book on tape from Audible.com about the serial child rapist warren Jeffs, who got away with raping dozens if not hundreds of girls as young as 12. He pulled it off because of this country's extremism in "freedom of religion." Claim you are a man of god, and you can get away with anything. The Catholic Church and its culture of old men in dresses raping young boys. Jerry Sandusky doing the same, protected by the god of football. Warren Jeffs was the head of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, who were in the news a few years ago when the State of Texas raided their compound outside El Dorado, Texas. The book is by a private investigator named Sam Brower, and Jon Kraukaer, who has written best sellers about the worst climbing disaster in the history of Mt. Everest, and Pat Tillman, killed by his own comrades in Afghanistan. The title:
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
It's who you know that counts
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Texas Prison Population Declines; Probation Department Abuse
Thursday, August 16, 2012
You're not a hero just because you wear a uniform
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Funnier Side of the News
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Those Wacky Lawyers
Monday, August 13, 2012
Due Process - Keeping Them Honest
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Keystone Cops and Judges
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Stupid is as stupid does - deputy shoots self in hand playing with shotgun
Monday, August 6, 2012
It's Not What You Did That's Important - It's Who You Know
Sunday, August 5, 2012
The Devil Goes to Church
Thursday, August 2, 2012
New Book About Kerrville Killer (Alleged) Preacher Matt Baker
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