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Steve Allen wins Chuck Dennis Investigator of the Year Award
Gheni Platenburg, Victoria Advocate
Originally published March 10, 2010 at 6:48 p.m.
Hard working. Not easily rattled. Superstar. That's how employees and co-workers describe Steve Allen, the 2010 winner of the Chuck Dennis Investigator of the Year Award.
"He doesn't just represent the District Attorney's office, he represents local law enforcement," said Victoria County District Attorney Steve Tyler. "Without his good work, the victim doesn't get vindicated, and the community is deprived of justice."
‘Serial Molester' Garners Four Life Sentences
Posted on Saturday, March 06, 2010
By DAYNA WORCHEL
Tyler Morning Telegraph Staff Writer
Judge Kerry Russell of the Smith County 7th District Court, on Friday, gave an Arp man four life sentences and one 20-year confinement to prison after he submitted an open plea of guilty to four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child.
Bobby Lee Blanton, 64, was immediately remanded to the custody of deputies after the sentencing.
Dad won't go to jail for death of toddler
Man whose son died in minivan last August accepts plea agreement.
Kesen Hu will make public service message.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Miguel Liscano
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
GEORGETOWN - The father of an 18-month-old boy who died last year after he was forgotten in the family's minivan pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of endangering a child. In a deal with prosecutors, Kesen Hu will serve no jail time.
Defiant Gobert gets capital punishment
Murder trial ends with courtroom outburst as condemned killer lashes out at victim's sister with profanity-laced tirade
By Steven Kreytak
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Thursday, March 11, 2010
After a Travis County jury on Wednesday sentenced Milton Dwayne Gobert to death for the 2003 stabbing death of Mel Kernena Cotton, the victim's sister took the witness stand and called Cotton, a Velocity Credit Union teller and single mother, "an angel."
Man is handed 48-year sentence
Linda Stewart
For the Wichita Times Record News
VERNON (Special) - David Hamilton, 31, of Vernon, entered a guilty plea Monday in 46th District Court to a charge of intoxication manslaughter. He was sentenced to 48 years in prison by Judge Dan Mike Bird.
Hamilton was arrested May 30, 2009. He was originally charged with intoxication manslaughter. Authorities believed he was operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and struck and killed Jordan Eli Ramirez, 24, also of Vernon.
Houston judge backs off ruling that death penalty unconstitutional
By BRIAN ROGERS
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
March 9, 2010
A Houston judge who ruled last week that the proceedings surrounding the Texas death penalty are unconstitutional rescinded his ruling this morning to schedule a hearing for lawyers on both sides to submit arguments on the issue.
State District Judge Kevin Fine said, in effect, he was holding his ruling in abeyance until April 12, when prosecutors and defense lawyers for capital murder John Green can submit briefs. A hearing was scheduled for April 27.
