Texas Criminal Law Blog » admin http://texascriminalblawg.com Texas Criminal Law News & Information Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:22:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 After 40 Years, Dock Ellis Inspires Acid Test http://texascriminalblawg.com/5281/after-40-years-dock-ellis-inspires-acid-test/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5281/after-40-years-dock-ellis-inspires-acid-test/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:22:46 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5281/after-40-years-dock-ellis-inspires-acid-test/ An increase in the number of no-hitters this season in the major leagues has refocused the attention of some on Dock Ellis’s 1970 gem, which he said he threw while on LSD.

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]]> http://texascriminalblawg.com/5281/after-40-years-dock-ellis-inspires-acid-test/feed/ 0 Heroin-dealing sentence of 30 years is five times norm for guilty pleas http://texascriminalblawg.com/5278/heroin-dealing-sentence-of-30-years-is-five-times-norm-for-guilty-pleas/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5278/heroin-dealing-sentence-of-30-years-is-five-times-norm-for-guilty-pleas/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:39:13 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5278/heroin-dealing-sentence-of-30-years-is-five-times-norm-for-guilty-pleas/ Kevin Lewis once killed a man, and sold drugs near a school. But the longest prison sentence he will ever serve is for his role in an $11,000 heroin buy at a Central City corner store last year. A federal…

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]]> http://texascriminalblawg.com/5278/heroin-dealing-sentence-of-30-years-is-five-times-norm-for-guilty-pleas/feed/ 0 Police across Texas on the lookout for drunken drivers over Labor Day weekend http://texascriminalblawg.com/5279/police-across-texas-on-the-lookout-for-drunken-drivers-over-labor-day-weekend/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5279/police-across-texas-on-the-lookout-for-drunken-drivers-over-labor-day-weekend/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:59:40 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5279/police-across-texas-on-the-lookout-for-drunken-drivers-over-labor-day-weekend/ The Dallas Police Department is conducting a “no refusal” initiative beginning at 6 p.m. tonight and ending at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, September 7.

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]]> http://texascriminalblawg.com/5279/police-across-texas-on-the-lookout-for-drunken-drivers-over-labor-day-weekend/feed/ 0 Drive safely on Labor Day weekend http://texascriminalblawg.com/5277/drive-safely-on-labor-day-weekend-2/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5277/drive-safely-on-labor-day-weekend-2/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:30:23 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5277/drive-safely-on-labor-day-weekend-2/ When the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reset the National Crash Clock for 2010, it began registering traffic fatalities at an average rate of every 14 minutes in America. With no time off for holidays.

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]]> http://texascriminalblawg.com/5277/drive-safely-on-labor-day-weekend-2/feed/ 0 Dallas sex offender caught in S. Florida http://texascriminalblawg.com/5267/dallas-sex-offender-caught-in-s-florida/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5267/dallas-sex-offender-caught-in-s-florida/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:22:58 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5267/dallas-sex-offender-caught-in-s-florida/ DALLAS — A convicted sex offender who fled from a Dallas halfway house and cut off the electronic monitoring device he was required to wear has been caught in south Florida. The Texas Department of Public Safety says 33-year-old Billy Twayne Gibson was captured Friday morning at a hotel in Miami Springs. DPS says a tip led to Gibson. A car reported stolen in Navarro County has been located. DPS …

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]]> http://texascriminalblawg.com/5267/dallas-sex-offender-caught-in-s-florida/feed/ 0 Police: Red-light runner charged with DWI after crash with officer http://texascriminalblawg.com/5274/police-red-light-runner-charged-with-dwi-after-crash-with-officer/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5274/police-red-light-runner-charged-with-dwi-after-crash-with-officer/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:22:38 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5274/police-red-light-runner-charged-with-dwi-after-crash-with-officer/ HOUSTON – A woman is facing two serious charges after she ran a red light and collided with an HPD officer in southeast Houston Thursday evening. A Houston police officer was traveling south on Broadway at Rockhill around 9:15 p.m. when a woman driving a minivan ran a red light, causing the HPD unit to crash into the side of her. The minivan driver, her passenger and the female officer were all …

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]]> http://texascriminalblawg.com/5274/police-red-light-runner-charged-with-dwi-after-crash-with-officer/feed/ 0 ‘No Refusal’ weekend kicks off with 4 arrests, 5 hospitalizations within hours http://texascriminalblawg.com/5273/%e2%80%98no-refusal%e2%80%99-weekend-kicks-off-with-4-arrests-5-hospitalizations-within-hours/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5273/%e2%80%98no-refusal%e2%80%99-weekend-kicks-off-with-4-arrests-5-hospitalizations-within-hours/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:52:38 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5273/%e2%80%98no-refusal%e2%80%99-weekend-kicks-off-with-4-arrests-5-hospitalizations-within-hours/ HOUSTON – The holiday weekend has just begun, but drunk-driving arrests and accidents were already happening throughout the Houston area early Friday. Houston and Harris County officials have designated Labor Day weekend as a “No Refusal” weekend, meaning that suspected drunk-drivers who refuse the breathalyzer will have their blood drawn and tested for intoxicants. HPD said there were at least …

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]]> http://texascriminalblawg.com/5273/%e2%80%98no-refusal%e2%80%99-weekend-kicks-off-with-4-arrests-5-hospitalizations-within-hours/feed/ 0 Officer Hurt in Crash, Driver Charged http://texascriminalblawg.com/5271/officer-hurt-in-crash-driver-charged/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5271/officer-hurt-in-crash-driver-charged/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:31:22 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5271/officer-hurt-in-crash-driver-charged/ A woman has been charged with driving while intoxicated following an accident between a minivan and a police car in southeast Houston.

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]]> http://texascriminalblawg.com/5271/officer-hurt-in-crash-driver-charged/feed/ 0 La. ATF agent shot during warrant sweep in Dallas http://texascriminalblawg.com/5282/la-atf-agent-shot-during-warrant-sweep-in-dallas/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5282/la-atf-agent-shot-during-warrant-sweep-in-dallas/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:18:14 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5282/la-atf-agent-shot-during-warrant-sweep-in-dallas/ DALLAS (AP) – A federal agent has survived being shot during a warrant sweep in Dallas for suspected gang members. The agent was treated at Baylor University Medical Center after he was shot yesterday.

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]]> http://texascriminalblawg.com/5282/la-atf-agent-shot-during-warrant-sweep-in-dallas/feed/ 0 Dallas-area man wounded in shooting in which 2 children are charged, wife was killed has died http://texascriminalblawg.com/5266/dallas-area-man-wounded-in-shooting-in-which-2-children-are-charged-wife-was-killed-has-died/ http://texascriminalblawg.com/5266/dallas-area-man-wounded-in-shooting-in-which-2-children-are-charged-wife-was-killed-has-died/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:19:57 +0000 admin http://texascriminalblawg.com/5266/dallas-area-man-wounded-in-shooting-in-which-2-children-are-charged-wife-was-killed-has-died/ DALLAS – Officials say a suburban Dallas man critically wounded in a shooting earlier this month in which two children are charged has died. The man’s wife, 46-year-old Darlene Nevil, was killed in the shooting two weeks ago.

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