Civil Forfeiture: Police Spending Relies on Seized Assets Law enforcement throughout the county rely on the money seized under civil forfeiture law to finance increasingly escalating spending on new police toys: guns, armored vehicles, and surveillance...
May 21, 2015 Read More...There has been a national hysteria about a heroin epidemic in the United States. The widespread fear has grown in light of highly publicized and devastating events like the overdose death of Philip Seymour Hoffman in February. To be fair, there is some...
May 21, 2015 Read More...Dallas County announced that, in the near future, people charged with possession of marijuana might avoid arrest. Instead, they would face a ticket and be asked to show up in court. This is called cite and release. The threshold amount for arrest would...
May 21, 2015 Read More...Police Cameras are Growing in Popularity In what is starting to become a trend, police departments across the country are beginning to equip their officers with body-mounted cameras. These small cameras that police can append to their uniforms or...
May 21, 2015 Read More...H-E-B and CVS Pay Civil Fines for Filling Prescriptions for Unlicensed Doctors When pharmacies HEB and CVS are investigated for alleged illegal distribution of controlled substances in violation of federal law, they don’t go to jail. Instead, they are...
May 21, 2015 Read More...Texas Police Don’t Need a Warrant to Get Your Cell Phone Location Data When you make or receive calls, send or receive texts, a communication happens between you and the nearest cell tower to you that spills the beans on your precise location. A...
May 21, 2015 Read More...Texas Man Exonerated through DNA Testing. But He Wasn’t Expecting It In 1990, Michael Phillips was convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl at a motel complex where they both lived. The evidence against Philips consisted of the girl’s eyewitness account....
May 21, 2015 Read More...People may have the idea that lab testing in criminal cases approximates what it looks like on CSI: shiny and flawless, with DNA tests and DWI blood tests performed soundly every time. In reality, this is not the case. Labs across the state have been...
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