2008 TDCAA Annual Conference is POSTPONED!
2008 TDCAA Annual Conference is POSTPONED!
2009 January Trial Skills Course Cancelled BUT July Will Be Ready for Extras
As most of you probably know, TDCAA’s Annual Criminal and Civil Law Update that was scheduled for September in Galveston was postponed due to Hurricane Ike. In order to secure appropriate hotel and training room capacities, we needed to utilize one of our existing contracts and amend it to include the Annual agenda.
Man found guilty of drug charges
Published: October 10, 2008 03:37 am
By PAUL STONE
The Palestine Herald
PALESTINE — A 36-year-old Palestine man will be sentenced in December after being found guilty of two drug charges Wednesday by an Anderson County jury.
A 12-person jury deliberated for slightly more than a hour Wednesday before finding Ross McMorris III, 36, of Palestine guilty of possession of a controlled substance 4-to-200 grams with intent to deliver and possession of marijuana between 4 ounces and 5 pounds.
Defendant in Jessica's Law case takes stand
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF'
Friday, October 10, 2008
GEORGETOWN — There is no DNA evidence linking Alfredo Soto Enriquez to the sexual assault a 13-year-old girl accuses him of, experts testified Thursday.
Enriquez, 36, was arrested and charged last October after the girl told her mother that he had sexually abused her at least twice in 2007.
Chaos erupts during murder sentencing
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, October 10, 2008
Chaos broke out in a Travis County courtroom Thursday as family members of a murder victim rushed toward the judge's bench, possibly unhappy with the sentence reached under a plea bargain in the case.
2nd suspect in ’05 killing guilty
October 10, 2008 - 12:08AM
By LAURA B. MARTINEZ/The Brownsville Herald
BROWNSVILLE - A second suspect in the 2005 killing of Brownsville artist Alfredo Bustinza has been found guilty.
Nestor Garza showed no emotion Thursday morning as a Cameron County jury found him guilty in the stabbing death of Bustinza, which occurred inside the Tucan Bar at 12th and Jackson streets on Aug. 20, 2005.
In murder case without a body, man gets life sentence
Posted on Fri, Oct. 10, 2008
By MARTHA DELLER
Fort Worth Star Telegram
FORT WORTH — Cautioned to curb their emotions, more than 20 friends and relatives of Glenda Gail Furch sat silently Thursday as a Tarrant County jury returned to the 371st District courtroom to pronounce punishment for the man convicted of killing Furch, whose body has never been found.
Duo guilty in dog attack
The jury deliberated less than an hour before finding defendants Jack Smith and Crystal Watson guilty of attack by dog resulting in death.
Chilton man gets 80-year sentence for robbing 73-year-old in home
Friday, October 10, 2008
By Tommy Witherspoon
Waco Tribune-Herald staff writer
A 23-year-old Chilton man was sentenced to 80 years in prison Thursday in a home-invasion robbery of a 73-year-old Marlin man.
Judge Robert Stem of Marlin’s 82nd State District Court sentenced Joe Louis Landrum after a jury convicted him Wednesday of aggravated robbery.
