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Dallas Woman Speaks Out Against Sex Crime Plea Deals
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A Dallas County woman is using an Internet radio show to advocate for a change in the way sex crimes are handled in court. Resident Cherlynn Roseberry said she was stunned when...
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Student May Face Jail For Cousin’s Crimes
GRAND PRAIRIE (CBSDFW.COM) – A young man from North Texas says has big plans for his future but he’s afraid he could go to jail for something he didn’t do. 19-year-old Dewayne Peace says he’s the...
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No Arrest, No Problem: Policy Keeps Suspected Predators Free
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – She was only six years old and looking forward to a sleepover with her young cousin. It was 1993 in Dallas. It was going to be fun. Maybe someone would take them to McDonald’s...
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4-Legged Officer Helping Child Victims In Dallas
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The little boy was absolutely terrified as he was ushered into the Dallas County investigator’s office. After all, he was just four years old. The child should have been in school...
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Dallas Co. Constables Accused Of Not Giving Eviction Warnings
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Dozens of Dallas County Constable Deputies are accused of not serving papers when they said they did and lying to judges about it. Some 25 deputies are accused of swearing that...
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Dallas DA: Law Firm To Collect $35M In Forfeited Bonds
DALLAS (AP) - A law firm will be appointed to collect about $35 million in forfeited bonds owed to Dallas County. District Attorney Craig Watkins said Wednesday that a law firm, to be selected later,...
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Hit-And-Run Victim’s Family Doesn’t Believe Suspect’s Story
RICHARDSON (CBSDFW.COM) – The family of Devin Byrd says they don’t believe a woman’s story that she suffered an epileptic seizure the day she ran over the 12-year-old boy in Richardson and left the...
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SUV Stolen From Home Of Dallas District Attorney
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Not even Dallas County’s top prosecutor is immune from crime. Thursday night someone stole an SUV belonging to Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. The thief apparently...
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Judge Declares Dallas Man Innocent After 14 Years In Prison
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – “You’re free to walk out of this courtroom today.” Those were the words said just minutes ago to Dale Lincoln Duke. The Dallas County judge set Duke free after he’d served 14...
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Prosecutors Back Overturning 31-Year-Old Rape Case
DALLAS (AP) – A top prosecutor says a man who has spent 31 years in prison for sexual assault didn’t receive a fair trial and that the conviction should be vacated. Dallas County District Attorney...
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Dallas Rape Victim Angry After Convicted Attacker Freed
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – In 1981, Rickey Dale Wyatt was sent to prison after Dallas County jurors convicted him of a brutal rape. Wyatt was released from jail Wednesday because of a prosecutorial error...
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Dallas County DA Reveals His Great-Grandfather Was Executed
Exoneree Dale Lincoln Duke with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. (credit: CBSDFW.COM) DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins was commenting on the...
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‘Renewed Hope’ For Exoneree Tarnished By Plea Deal
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Christopher Scott has been out of jail since October of 2009. He’s working hard to be a good parent to his two boys. Scott is now a business owner, and has started his own...
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Lawyers Prove Innocence Of 3 Dallas County Men
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Innocence Project of Texas has become famous because of their association with DNA exonerations in the state. To hear of another case of wrongful conviction unfortunately...
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Relief, Concern For 2 Exonerated Men
Raymond Jackson (L) and James Williams were exonerated by Dallas County on April 30, 2012. (Photo credit Dallas County Sheriff) DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – It had been almost 30 years since James Williams...
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North Texas Woman’s Execution Scheduled January 29
DALLAS (AP) — A woman on Texas death row for the stabbing and bludgeoning of a 71-year-old woman has received a January 29 execution date. Kimberly McCarthy was sentenced to die for the July 1997...
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No More Delays, Dallas DA Wants Murderer Executed
Mugshot of convicted murderer Bobby Lee Hines. (credit: Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice) NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – It’s been nearly 21 years to the day since Michelle Wendy Haupt was found beaten,...
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Cowboys Player Has Bond Lowered, Must Wear Electronic Monitor
Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent in court for a bond hearing at the Frank Crowley Courthouse on December 18, 2012. (credit: CBSDFW.COM) DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – During a Tuesday morning court hearing a...
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Roe V. Wade Impact Still Felt Far Beyond Dallas, State
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Forty years ago today the United States Supreme Court ruled on arguably the highest-profile court case ever to come out of Dallas County. Jane Roe, et al. v. Henry Wade, District...
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After Thursday’s Violence In Kaufman County, Dallas DA Wants Changes
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Thursday’s killing of a felony prosecutor in Kaufman left the Dallas County District Attorney worried for the safety of his employees. Dallas County District Attorney Craig...
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