Putnam wanted $6,000 back from the county courts, that he had posted earlier as a supersedeas deposit. Unsuccessful in obtaining the money from the clerk’s office, he sued the county clerk, who obtained dismissal on jurisdictional grounds. The Fifth Court, after modifying the dismissal to be...
Years later — he can’t recall the date — Harvey awoke to two investigators at his door. They questioned him and recorded his statement about what happened outside City Hall that May evening. Harvey learned prosecutors would be taking the case to a Dallas County gr...
This is done in the civil courts.A civil lawsuit allows the injured person to seek compensation for the damages they have suffered so they can move forward in their lives. The civil justice system allows the individual to seek justice directly from those who are legally liable for what has ...
1, 2019, booking photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department shows former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger. Guyger, who shot her black unarmed neighbor Botham Jean to death after, she said, mistaking his apartment for her own, was convicted of murder Tuesday. (Dallas County ...
Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson poses with prosecutors (from left) George Lewis, Mike Snipes, Brian Higginbotham and Jason Hermus at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas. Johnson took an active role in the trial to send a message about the importance of the case....