/tags/dallas-county-district-attorney Dallas County District Attorney en-US Copyright Wed, 14 May 2025 22:00:12 GMT /criminal-justice/2025-05-14/texas-death-row-inmate-dallas-county-hypnosis-conviction Attorney General Ken Paxton's office asked a Dallas County judge to set the execution of Charles Don Flores. His attorneys say they're not done trying to prove he was convicted using a debunked technique. Wed, 14 May 2025 22:00:12 GMT /criminal-justice/2025-05-14/texas-death-row-inmate-dallas-county-hypnosis-conviction Toluwani Osibamowo /news/2025-05-05/tarrant-county-sheriffs-office-leads-dallas-county-jail-death-probe-own-investigations-noncompliant More than two dozen deaths in the Tarrant County Jail were not independently investigated as required. Now Tarrant County is investigating a Dallas County jail death. Mon, 05 May 2025 09:58:00 GMT /news/2025-05-05/tarrant-county-sheriffs-office-leads-dallas-county-jail-death-probe-own-investigations-noncompliant Marina Trahan Martinez /news/2024-11-08/mary-kellys-killer-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-35-years-after-her-death David Rojas was found guilty after forensic genetic genealogy linked him to Mary Kelly's 1989 murder and rape in Oak Cliff. Fri, 08 Nov 2024 21:27:58 GMT /news/2024-11-08/mary-kellys-killer-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-35-years-after-her-death Marina Trahan Martinez /news/2024-11-07/capital-murder-trial-for-defendant-linked-to-dallas-victim-by-forensic-genealogy-underway David Rojas is accused of strangling and raping Oak Cliff resident Mary Hague Kelly in 1989. Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:49:01 GMT /news/2024-11-07/capital-murder-trial-for-defendant-linked-to-dallas-victim-by-forensic-genealogy-underway Marina Trahan Martinez /criminal-justice/2024-10-02/dallas-county-district-attorney-texas-exoneree-compensation-international-wrongful-conviction-day Texas has paid more than $50 million to compensate people wrongfully convicted of crimes in Dallas County. Wed, 02 Oct 2024 10:00:00 GMT /criminal-justice/2024-10-02/dallas-county-district-attorney-texas-exoneree-compensation-international-wrongful-conviction-day Toluwani Osibamowo /news/2024-08-29/delayed-justice-exoneration-for-benjamin-spencer-convicted-of-killing-a-man-in-1987 Ben Spencer was accused in part because of false testimony. He was formally exonerated in a Dallas court on Thursday. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:38:40 GMT /news/2024-08-29/delayed-justice-exoneration-for-benjamin-spencer-convicted-of-killing-a-man-in-1987 Ed Timms, Marina Trahan Martinez /news/2024-05-16/dallas-county-transportation-access-drug-court-program The $12,500 will go toward purchasing transportation vouchers for participants to make it to their court-ordered appointments. Thu, 16 May 2024 10:00:00 GMT /news/2024-05-16/dallas-county-transportation-access-drug-court-program Zara Amaechi /criminal-justice/2024-05-10/texas-murder-conviction-rap-lyrics-overturned The court ruled Dallas County prosecutors shouldn't have used videos of a Greenville man rapping about drugs, weapons and not snitching about crimes to make their case against him in a 2019 capital murder trial. Fri, 10 May 2024 14:00:00 GMT /criminal-justice/2024-05-10/texas-murder-conviction-rap-lyrics-overturned Toluwani Osibamowo /news/2024-05-03/report-dallas-police-wont-pursue-criminal-case-against-dak-prescott-over-sex-assault-claim Police in Dallas won't pursue criminal charges from a seven-year-old sexual assault claim against Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, according to a television report Thursday. Fri, 03 May 2024 12:38:38 GMT /news/2024-05-03/report-dallas-police-wont-pursue-criminal-case-against-dak-prescott-over-sex-assault-claim The Associated Press /criminal-justice/2024-04-24/don-flores-texas-death-row-inmate-eyewitness-memory Charles Don Flores is on death row for a 1998 Farmers Branch murder. A professor says his and others' research on witness memory could prove Flores' innocence. Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:00:00 GMT /criminal-justice/2024-04-24/don-flores-texas-death-row-inmate-eyewitness-memory Toluwani Osibamowo