If it hadn't been for that crazy Silly String, Darlie Lynn Routier might be a free woman today.
On Tuesday morning, John Creuzot told his staff of prosecutors that they were being sworn in to a DA’s office focused on finding alternatives to jailing people for petty crimes.
John Creuzot has pledged to reduce mass incarceration, improve access to mental health and drug treatment and reduce prosecution of non-violent offenses. He says part of that work will involve additional training for prosecutors.
A man convicted of murder on fault evidence in Dallas County could be paid more than $2 million by the state after he was formally exonerated and declared innocent this week.
Five people traveled from California to Dallas Love Field with 129 pounds of marijuana hidden in their suitcases, police records show.
A man who called the 23-year-old woman he killed in a hit-and-run crash "careless" was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison.
Here's a look at some of the biggest trials this year at Dallas' criminal courthouse.
Texas led the country in executions in 2018 with 13 lethal injections in 2018.
Kendall Deshonn Morris was booked on a murder charge in the death of Nicholas Shaq'uan Diggs outside Dallas Cabaret.
Alvin Braziel’s defense attorneys filed a motion Tuesday in the Dallas County court where he was convicted, seeking to withdraw the execution date.