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Plots about wealthy people planning the deaths of love rivals feature heavily in TV crime shows but are rare in real life. Many homicides involve people who know each other and many are spontaneous rather than meticulously planned. However a case in Lubbock, Texas in which a plastic surgeon is accused of paying an alleged…
Michael Morton describes his life as “starting from square one.” That’s because he was wrongly convicted for his wife’s 1986 murder and it took a quarter of a century for new advances in DNA to exonerate him. Morton’s case is highlighted in the second installment of the Texas Tribune’s series that looks at how prosecutorial…
The supporters of so called “Stand your Ground” laws say they were enacted to make America a safer place. However, an analysis of these laws in states including Texas, suggest they have led to an increase in the homicide rate but no apparent reduction in crimes such as burglaries and robberies. An analysis by the…
An intoxicated manslaughter case has been making headlines in Texas because of its tragic nature. Five family members in one car died when their father crashed the vehicle into a bulldozer as he drove home from a Father’s Day party at Medina Lake in San Antonio. The fifth victim died on June 21. Eight-year-old Abram Demers was…
The jailing of Texas banker R. Allen Stanford, has led to comparisons with Bernie Madoff and Enron in the annals of white collar crime. Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in jail. His forlorn appearance in a Houston court room was a far cry from his jet setting days on his fleet of private airplanes…
The case of Clint Broden’s client Michael Arena, who walked out of prison on June 1, 2012, almost 13 years into a 20-year prison sentence, was a high profile example in Texas of a wrongful conviction. But according to a new registry of wrongful convictions compiled by the University of Michigan Law School in a…
Charles Manson committed his crimes in the late 1960s but he remains one of America’s most infamous killers. Now police in Los Angeles, where he committed his crimes, believe recordings of conversations between his associate and a late Texas attorney, could shed light on the infamous killings or implicate Manson in other killings. Los Angeles…
Juvenile Charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault Goes Free Clint Broden has been representing a client adjudicated as a juvenile for aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment on a pro bono basis since 2006. This case has been featured on ABC’s 20/20 and has received extensive publicity in the Austin area via the Austin Chronicle and…
Drunk driving arrests don’t normally receive much media coverage. When the person who has been pulled over and arrested is well known Dallas TV anchor Jane McGarry, it’s a different story. McGarry is an NBC anchor for Dallas. She was arrested after she reportedly failed to signal a lane change.mcgarry A Department of Public Safety…
Many offenders in Texas end up at the Dallas County Jail after they have been dealt with by the criminal justice system in Texas. Jail by its very nature is a place of last resort. It should be tough. But it should not be dangerous. However, a series of deaths at the jail is undermining…