Toluwani Osibamowo
Law and Justice ReporterToluwani Osibamowo covers law and justice for 四虎影院. She joined the newsroom in 2022 as a general assignments reporter. She previously worked as a news intern for Texas Tech Public Media and copy editor for Texas Tech University鈥檚 student newspaper, The Daily Toreador, before graduating with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in journalism. She was named one of Current's public media Rising Stars in 2024. She is originally from Plano.
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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. -
The high court ruled despite the city's unintentional oversight in greenlighting plans for a townhome that was 10 feet too tall, ordering the McKinney developer to tear it down to comply with height requirements would be unjust. -
The high court's Friday ruling sets an even higher standard in proving whether governments can be sued over 911 responses. -
A grand jury in Collin County indicted 14 pro-Palestinian protestors from UT Dallas. -
A jury found last week X 鈥� then known as Twitter 鈥� willfully infringed on part of a patent for technology in its development and operation of Vine and Periscope. -
Mila Jackson, now 2 years old, was returned to her family after the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services used erroneous legal documents to put her in state custody. But the ACLU of Texas says the DFPS administrative procedure has left the family with an administrative guilty verdict. -
State lawmakers and criminal justice experts offer some insight into what drives the lawmaking process in Texas and whether police chases 鈥� a phenomenon that killed nearly 100 people in Texas in 2022 鈥� will ever be regulated in the law. -
The lawsuits follow similar ongoing litigation against the State Fair of Texas after the fair adopted a policy banning nearly all guns from last year's event. -
Tiffany Gerred was one of six people killed in the 133-vehicle pileup on an icy Interstate 35 toll lane. Her family is still suing FedEx after the driver of one of the company's 18-wheeler trucks allegedly rolled over Gerred's car in the crash. -
Paxton, along with 11 other state attorneys general, signed on to letters accusing 20 major law firms of potentially breaking state and federal law with hiring policies meant to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion. -
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that because of flawed legal reasoning from lower courts, a juvenile judge must reconsider whether a Houston man will be tried as an adult for a capital murder allegedly committed when he was a teen. -
鈥楪uilty until proven innocent:' Marathon Texas House hearing showcases political divide on cash bailAn emotional, 10-hour-long Texas House committee meeting Tuesday highlighted the stark divide between lawmakers and the public on the state's bail system, a legislative priority this session.
