The sentencing phase of the trial began immediately after Ukwuachu was found guilty Thursday night, and reached its conclusion Friday afternoon.
A much-talked-about football player at Baylor University—whom coaches “expect back” this fall—is currently on trial for the sexual assault of a fellow student. Questions now swirl around what the program knew and when they knew it.
Transparency and action after an officer-involved shooting could indicate a fundamental shift.
An Angelo State football player was shot and killed by police in Arlington over the weekend, and questions remain.
The hard truth behind police misconduct in Prairie View and McKinney.
In the wake of Sandra Bland's death, activists have spent their summer in the heat, holding signs, and declaring that "as long as there's injustice in the world, people need to be sitting somewhere."
We can't ignore law enforcement's failure to secure proper medical treatment.
How new low-income housing and a SCOTUS decision could shake things up, and why they desperately needed it.
The last few days of the life of Sandra Bland tell us things about ourselves, and the culture we’ve built, that we’d rather not know.
Innocence Project of Texas executive director Scott Henson says his organization is about more than DNA evidence.
Pamela Colloff writes about the first prosecutor to be disbarred under a new law in Texas.
Officials in Waller County say that the woman’s death was a suicide. Her friends and family don’t believe it. And there are 64 other deaths in Texas this year make it harder to trust the official story.
A colorful man with a colorful bird had a hard time in the Tyler police station.
A small measure of justice was served when the State Bar of Texas stripped Charles Sebesta of his law license and formally disbarred him.
District judge Carter Tinsley Schildknecht, of Dawson County, was reprimanded by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for, among other offenses, holding a fifteen-hour court session that ran until four in the morning, during which she allowed no formal meal or bathroom breaks.
A mounted police officer grabs the camera of a man filming a tense incident on Sixth Street, and a fellow officer steps in to shoot a stream of pepper spray into the man’s face. But how many videos of police behaving badly can we handle?
The viral story of a pool party in McKinney became the latest flashpoint in the ongoing conversation about police and race in America.
It’s time to consider what role social media should have in policing.
“I can’t breathe.” Yet again.
Mimi Swartz cross-examines the Court of Criminal Appeals’ unprecedented sanctions against a death penalty lawyer.
Solid reporting from the University of Texas School of Journalism investigates the gender and racial makeup of law enforcement in Texas.
The way Texas punishes truancy is downright Kafka-esque—and it’s finally getting a lot of attention.
Kristen Lindsey, the Brenham veterinarian who bragged about killing a cat with a bow and arrow on Facebook, is persona non grata on social media now.
Following a string of complaints about alleged harassment, assault, and rape, a transgender inmate in Texas was moved to a special “safekeeping” unit in what LGBT activists consider a significant victory.
Burleson County law enforcement apparently prefers officers use a different standard than rock-paper-scissors when determining infractions.
More like the fun police, are we right?
Lots of bad news—often caught on camera.
Nine years after Hannah Overton’s nightmarish journey through the criminal justice system began, it ended just as abruptly.
If you’ve been accused of a serious crime and the cops are pressing you for information—go ahead and light up.
A Brazoria County task force executed a 21 Jump Street-style sting in area high schools over the past several months, culminating in the arrests of six students.
If posing for pictures with Snoop is outlawed, only outlaws will pose for pictures with Snoop.
Another roadblock appears to be in place as Texas’s supply continues to dwindle.
The former POW has been formally charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy and now faces court-martial.
But they would—and did—sign Greg Hardy, the great pass rusher, who has a history of domestic violence and who spent the 2014 season suspended from the league. A SXSports panel discusses.
For the past ten years, the notorious, newly minted documentary superstar has been relaxing in affluent obscurity in Houston’s most fashionable areas, not creeping people out at all—most of the time.
Few things rally people to a cause more quickly than the unjustified shooting of a dog.
Will he be pulled from the bill?
There’s no such town, no cops were fired, and the drop in crime is debatable. The rest is spot-on.
Early results from sifting through a backlog of more than 6,600 evidence lockers include fresh convictions and hundreds of matches with the FBI’s national DNA database.
The Cowboys star wide receiver is the subject of some unverified rumors being reported by the mainstream sports press regarding a video that may or may not exist. How does a story with no corroboration end up being discussed everywhere?
The Harris County State Representative wants to ensure that your DNA matches the gender designation for each bathroom before you go.
Quality use of resources there, San Antonio PD.
A byproduct of the movie’s unprecedented success.
In most states, as the old saying goes, fifteen will get you twenty. In Texas, twenty can get you twenty, if you are employed by a school district in any capacity.
A Galveston police officer had his buddy pull over his girlfriend before proposing—is it as cute a story as people are making it out to be?
Texas’s criminal justice system has seen some staggering changes in the past decade. Thank Cathy Cochran.
A Dallas County ADA was arrested for DWI over the weekend. Will Susan Hawk, Dallas’s new District Attorney, use this as an opportunity to differentiate her office from that of her scandal-plagued predecessor?
Post-Ferguson, post–Eric Garner, post–Tamir Rice, relations between police and the people they’re tasked to protect and serve are especially strained—even as far from where those events happened as Texas.
At a time when so many questions are being raised about people in the criminal justice system holding their own accountable, this isn’t a great look.
It's better to have video evidence than not, but those who present police body cameras as a solution to our national predicament involving police relations need to look at cases from Jasper, Texas, to New York City to see that the problem is more complicated than that.