McKinney Criminal Law Blog Posts

Capital murder conviction for shooting of policeman and shop owner

A 12-member jury composed of nine men and three women voted the death sentence for Harlem Harold Lewis III, 21, who was charged with killing 53-year-old Bellaire, Texas policeman Corporal Jimmie Norman and 66-year-old shop owner Terry Taylor in 2012, Click2Houston.com reported on August 6. The jury members deliberated for 12 hours on the decision, considering the testimony […]

Judge refuses to re-consider competency of convicted Texas murderer

Fifty-three-year-old convicted murderer Kenneth Wayne Thomas, who was imprisoned for killing a couple in Dallas in 1986, has been rejected for another competency trial by a Dallas judge, and his punishment for capital murder resumed, The Dallas Morning News reported on July 14. Thomas received a death sentence in 1987 for murdering Fred and Mildred Finch, an […]

U.S. goalie Hope Solo allegedly assaulted her sister at latter’s house in Seattle

The U.S. women soccer team’s 32-year-old goalie Hope Solo pleaded not guilty to the domestic violence charge leveled against her following her arrest at her sister’s house in Seattle on June 21, the Associated Press reported. Solo was told by the city prosecutor not to contact her sister and not to drink alcohol for an indefinite amount of […]

Supporters rally for Texas teenager facing life sentence for pot brownies

Nineteen-year-old Round Rock resident Jacob Lavoro is facing a sentence of life imprisonment after police authorities arrested him for possession of a 1.5-pound pan of pot brownies, The Daily Chronic reported on June 20. Lavoro, who turned down a plea agreement to have his first-degree felony reduced to a second-degree felony charge at the Williamson County […]

Man flees country to avoid persecution, faces repercussions 10 years later

In 1993, 57-year-old Nigerian citizen and Dallas resident Godwin Ojiaku fled the country when he was charged with indecency with a child. Now, over ten years later, he faces federal charge of interstate flight to avoid prosecution, The Dallas Morning News reported on June 1. When Ojiaku left a Dallas County criminal court in 2013, […]

Last minute postponement of Texas execution

Forty-one-year-old convicted killer Robert James Campbell would have been the first executed by lethal injection after a botched execution in Oklahoma, but Campbell lived to see another day after the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily halted his scheduled execution on grounds that he could be mentally impaired, The Dallas Morning News reported on May 13. Campbell’s attorneys […]

Killeen man allegedly assaults woman, jumps from second floor window

Killeen resident Darius Troy Morrow, 26, is facing state-felony charges of criminal mischief in an amount of more than $1,500 but less than $20,000 after jumping from the second floor of an apartment complex and onto the roof of a vehicle.  Morrow was also charged with misdemeanor assault with bodily injury to a family member. According […]

Long delays for crime lab results caused 21 people in Texas to be wrongfully convicted

A report published on Sunday, April 20 in the Austin American-Statesman revealed that long delays at crime labs caused around 21 people in Texas to be imprisoned on drug possession charges even though the substances they had been carrying at the time of their arrests were not illegal. The newspaper found that 14 men and […]

Jury finds drifter guilty of capital murder

On Monday, April 2 a jury in Val Verde County, Texas found Tommy Lynn Sells guilty of capital murder for the death of a 13-year-old girl and the serious injuries of a 10-year-old girl. According to evidence from the prosecution, 13-year-old Kaylene Harris died after being attacked with a knife. Her body was found with […]

Pistorius murder trial continues in Pretoria

Evidence against Olympic runner, Oscar Pistorius, has developed during the first week of his trial. Pistorius has been charged with premeditated murder for shooting and killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, 29. A neighbor told the Pretoria court that she heard “blood-curdling screams” coming from Pistorius’s house the night that Steenkamp was found dead. Two others […]
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