Duarte v. City of Lewisville, TX, Complaint, sex offender residence restrictions, 2012 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION AURELIO DUARTE; WYNJEAN DUARTE; BRANDI DUARTE; and SAVANA DUARTE, a Minor, By and through Wynjean Duarte, acting as her Next Friend; No. __________________ Plaintiffs V. THE CITY OF …
Death Sentence Reversed Due to “Accidental” Perjury by Texas Prison Investigator by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed a death sentence imposed on a state prisoner convicted of capital murder, because a prison investigator had falsely described the prisoner classification system in the Texas …
Texas Psychologist Who Approved Prisoners for Execution Receives Reprimand by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Texas psychologist who used questionable methods to examine over a dozen Texas death row prisoners prior to their trials, and found them intellectually competent to face the death penalty, has been fined for using …
Texas Prisoners Serve Average of 58% of Their Sentences by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a recent report by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), during fiscal year (FY) 2010, Texas state prisoners served an average of 58% of their sentences before being released. That percentage is …
Texas Prison Employees Accused of Improper Relationships with Sex Offenders by Three Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) employees have been accused of engaging in improper relationships with prisoners in sex offender evaluation or treatment programs at the Goree Unit in Huntsville. Two of the employees were counselors in the …
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Credits Sentence with Time on Appeal Bond by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that a man who erroneously remained free on an appeal bond for 21 years was entitled to full credit toward his sentence. Claus Detref Thiles was sentenced to 16 years …
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Rules Against Parole Board on Imposition of Sex Offender Restrictions on Non-Sex Offenders by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles was required to provide due process in the form of a …
Texas Prisoner on Idaho Presidential Primary Ballot in 2008 by Mark Wilson During the 2008 Democratic primary election, Idaho voters had three choices for president: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Keith Russell Judd. At the time, Judd was serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas on a …
Texas Towns Saddled with Empty, Expensive Privatized Prisons and Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In July 2011, anyone with at least $5 million to spare was invited to bid on a 373-bed, state-of-the-art, turn-key minimum-security prison on 30 acres of land in the cotton-farming town of Littlefield, Texas. …
Suit Over Police Beating of Fort Worth Prisoner Settled for $120,000 by On August 24, 2010, the City of Fort Worth, Texas agreed to settle a former prisoner’s civil rights suit for $120,000. Carey Cass Hudson, then 38, was arrested by Fort Worth police officer F.V. Anderson on June 14, …
Deaths at Texas Jail Reveal Health Care Deficiencies by When Amy Lynn Cowling, 33, was arrested for speeding and outstanding misdemeanor theft warrants, no one expected that she would receive the death penalty. But Cowling never even had the opportunity to present her case to a judge or jury; five …
Texas Prisoner’s Denial of Dentures Claim Affirmed in Part, Reversed in Part by Fifth Circuit by Nicolas Marquez, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoner held at the Polunsky Unit, has no teeth. He requested dentures but the request was denied because his Body Mass Index (BMI) was too …
Morris v. Dallas County, TX, 2nd Amended Complaint, Wrongful Death - ADA, 2011 Case 3:11-cv-00527-K Document 40 Filed 12/16/11 Page 1 of 14 PageID 204 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION ARTHUR MORRIS and BEVERLY MORRIS, Individually and as Representative of the …
Texas State Auditor Blasts UTMB, Texas Tech Prisoner Health Care Costs by Medical care for more than 150,000 prisoners in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is contracted out to two state university medical systems – the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and Texas Tech University …
Texas State Bar, Exonerated Ex-Prisoners File Suit Against Attorney Over Fees by The State Bar of Texas has filed a lawsuit against Lubbock attorney Kevin Glasheen, alleging that he grossly overcharged clients in violation of the Bar’s Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. Glasheen, who represents over a dozen exonerated former …
$1 Million Settlement in Texas Wrongful Conviction Suit by On March 31, 2011, a man who had been falsely convicted of burglary, rape and sexual abuse accepted a $1 million settlement after being exonerated by DNA evidence. Donald Wayne Good filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights suit in …
Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Over Sexual Abuse of Female Detainees at CCA Facility in Texas by A guard at a privately-run immigration detention facility in Texas has pleaded guilty to sexually molesting numerous female immigration detainees while they were being transported to the bus station or airport for release. The facility, …
Texas Jail Guards Smuggle Contraband in Tacos, Ramen Noodles by When Bexar County jail guard Alfred Casas, 32, agreed to bring some tacos to prisoner Jacob Keller in violation of jail rules, he probably didn’t think much of it. That changed when the tacos contained hacksaw blades intended for use …
Court's Sanctions for BOP's Refusal to Discuss Settlement Vacated by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's sanctions against two Assistant U.S. Attorney's for not making good faith settlement discussions. The plaintiff/prisoner collided with an unpadded pole while pursuing a fly ball during a softball game at …
Settlement Payments for Work Related Injuries Do Not Begin Until After Release from Prison by Settlement payments for work related injuries do not begin until after release from federal custody, U.S. magistrate Judge Brain Owsley held in April 30, 2008. On March 21, 1997, Jerry L. Thompson, a federal prisoner, …
