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Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On December 21, 2021, two former police officers in West Blocton, Alabama, were arrested and charged with sexual assault. According to WBRC, a news station serving Birmingham, the Tuscaloosa Police Department announced that the former officers, Craig Baird Arnold, 49, and Brian Keith Whatley, 50, …
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Defendant Satisfied Requirements of Confession and Avoidance, ‘Unintentional Self-Defense’ Jury Instruction Allowed Against Charge of Intentional Offense by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (“TCCA”) held that Marvin Rodriguez satisfied the requirements of confession and avoidance. The TCCA also instructed …
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Although Subsequent Indictment Recites Same Language as Original Indictment, SOL Isn’t Tolled Where Subsequent Indictment Fails to Charge Same Conduct, Act, or Transaction by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (“TCCA”) held that, although a subsequent indictment recited the same …
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Filed under: Jury Trial, Rejection
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Trial Court Abused Discretion by Refusing to Allow Withdrawal of Jury-Trial Waiver for Defendant Who Ultimately Rejected Plea Deal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas held that a trial court abused its discretion in denying a defendant’s …
Article • January 15, 2022 • from CLN February, 2022
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Police Deception That Statements Wouldn’t Be Used Against Defendant Requires Suppression by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas upheld the decision of a lower court to suppress a defendant’s surreptitiously recorded statements on the ground that it was …
Brief • December 29, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Stewart v. Tarrant County, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death-Suicide, 2021 Case 4:21-cv-00597-O Document 24 Filed 12/29/21 Page 1 of 11 PageID 163 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH DIVISION BETTY STEWART; JIMMY STEWART; ALYSSA CHRISTIAN STEWART; SAVANNAH BROOKE STEWART; COLE STEWART; and DEAN …
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: Claims for $300,000 were filed in September 2021 against the city of Chandler, Arizona, in advance of a lawsuit planned by two activists arrested during a protest against police brutality six months earlier. According to a report by the Phoenix New Times, the men, Darien …
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Fifth Circuit: Texas Police Get Qualified Immunity for Knowingly Using Taser to Ignite Gasoline-Soaked, Suicidal Man, Killing Him and Destroying Family’s House by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit refused to re-visit its decision that Texas police officers …
Article • December 13, 2021
Filed under: Forfeiture
Dallas K-9 Instrumental in Civil Forfeiture of $106,000 at Love Field Airport Despite There Being no Arrest or Crime by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott A police dog with the Dallas Police Department sniffed out $106,000 in cash in a traveler’s suitcase on December 2, 2021, at Dallas’ …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Texas Man Positively Identified by Six Eyewitnesses and Sentenced to Life Granted Actual Innocence Relief as Result of DNA Evidence by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Aaron Scheerhoorn was stabbed to death outside a Houston bar in 2010. During the investigation, multiple witnesses told detectives an unknown Black man …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A former Alabama cop convicted of murdering a mentally ill and suicidal man in his own home reported to a state prison in Montgomery on September 6, 2021, to begin serving a 25-year sentence he received for the crime, according to Huntsville TV station WAFF. …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: Police Misconduct
Police Do Not Want to Pay for Damage They Inflicted to Texas Home by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Wesley Little had an hours-long standoff with McKinney, Texas, police in Vicki Baker’s home after running off with a 15-year-old girl. Baker was not home at the time, and the 15-year-old …
Brief • September 17, 2021
Filed under: Medical
Kent v. Collin County,TX, Response to Defendant Motion to Dismiss, Failure to Provide Adequate Medical Care, 2021 Case 4:21-cv-00412-SDJ Document 35 Filed 09/17/21 Page 1 of 31 PageID #: 336 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION LAUREN KENT, Plaintiff, v. COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, et …
Article • September 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: After shooting more people than any other U.S. city or county police department in 2018, the Phoenix Police Department (PhxPD) will now be the subject of a “pattern and practice” (P&P) investigation announced on August 5, 2021, by the federal Department of Justice (DOJ), according …
Article • September 3, 2021
White Texas Cop Charged in Second On-Duty Killing of Non-White Suspect by On August 27, 2021, five months after White Austin Police Department (APD) Officer Taylor was charged with murdering an unarmed Black Hispanic suspect, he racked up another murder charge for the fatal shooting of a mentally ill South …
Article • August 23, 2021
Wrongly Convicted Texas Man Suing Corrupt Houston Cop by In a federal lawsuit filed August 13, 2021, a Houston man wrongfully convicted on drug charges is seeking unspecified damages from the disgraced cop who fabricated the evidence that sent him to prison. The now-freed man, Otis Mallet, also seeks damages …
Article • August 20, 2021
Black Texas Woman Pleads with White Cop Arresting Daughter, Gets Arrested, too; Cop May Have Had Covid-19 by As a White Texas deputy Sheriff restrained and arrested a young Black woman on July 27, 2021, her mother attempted to comfort her—for which she was tackled and arrested, too. At the …
Article • August 20, 2021
Texas Teacher Who Committed Suicide After Being Snagged in Underage Grindr Sex Sting Was Unfairly Set Up by Cops, Family Says by In a lawsuit filed August 2, 2021, the family of a Texas teacher—who committed suicide after being trolled by an undercover cop on the gay dating app Grindr—accuses …
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Texas Supreme Court: Multiple Misdemeanor Charges Resulting From Single Arrest Divisible for Expunction Purposes by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Texas held that under Article 55.01(a)(2)(A) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure multiple misdemeanor offenses charged in a single arrest are eligible for expunction on …
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: Five Southern California cops were placed on leave in June 2021 after a video surfaced showing them attacking suspects, according to reports by the Washington Post. On June 10, 2021, four Glendale police officers went on paid leave while an investigation was opened into their response to …
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