2008 TDCAA Annual Conference is POSTPONED!

The 2008 TDCAA Annual Criminal and Civil Law Conference in Galveston has been postponed.  We are already working on revised dates and locations.

Garland drug officer's cases re-examined after credibility questioned

Thursday, March 18, 2010
By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News

An undercover informant opened the motel room door, letting four police officers rush in for the drug bust. They quickly arrested a man who had already spent 10 years in prison for dealing dope and burglary.

Governor appoints Anna Jimenez as Nueces County’s DA

Successor to lead office until November election

By Mary Ann Cavazos, Jaime Powell
Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Updated 05:06 p.m., March 18, 2010

CORPUS CHRISTI — Hours after Gov. Rick Perry announced Anna Jimenez was his choice for Nueces County district attorney she was surrounded by fellow Republicans and some Democrats, as she was sworn in.

Perry reappoints Ghigna to crime victim council


Updated: 03.18.10

Special to the Woodlands Villager News

Jury to deliberate on Jessop's sentencing

By Matthew Waller, San Angelo Standard Times

Posted March 18, 2010 at 9:46 p.m.

SAN ANGELO, Texas — The prosecution and defense have rested in the punishment phase of the trial of Merril Leroy Jessop, who has been convicted of sexual assault of a child in connection with an alleged underage marriage.

Jessop is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a polygamous sect.

Today at 9 a.m. the jurors will hear closing arguments and deliberate on Jessop’s sentence.

Hanna gets 50 years in prison

Thursday, March 18, 2010
Mark Engebretson, Lake Country Sun

Darryl Wade Hanna, 61, of Perrin, entered a guilty plea in 29th District Court in Palo Pinto Wednesday and received 50 years in prison and a $2,500 fine.

The Secret Pardon


by Brandi Grissom
The Texas Tribune

March 19, 2010

Man with HIV charged with sexually assaulting child

Last Update: 3/18

HOUSTON, Texas (NBC) -- A Houston man has been accused of sexually assaulting a child and using his body as a deadly weapon.

Prosecutors said Kevin Sellars, 49, contacted a 15-year-old boy through his MySpace page and paid for him to fly from his home in Indiana to Houston.

Houston police said that for 10 days in December, the boy stayed at Sellars' Montrose-area apartment, where he was repeatedly sexually abused.

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