Dallas Criminal Lawyer – David Finn

No party has lock on jail’s woes
08:51 AM CST on Saturday, December 23, 2006S. Jacobson, Dallas Morning News
The Dallas County Jail has been a malingering mess for years.
But suddenly, the Republican Party is upset about it.
Kenn S. George, the GOP’s leader in Dallas County, vented his outrage at the jail’s health-related problems in [...]

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Dallas: Former Tarrant prosecutor known for courtroom tenacity
09:56 AM CST on Wednesday, December 20, 2006By ROBERT THARP / The Dallas Morning News
In his search to fill the No. 2 position in his new administration, Craig Watkins went outside the district attorney’s office, outside the circle of Dallas County courthouse regulars and even outside the [...]

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Watkins picks two assistantsReporter Robert Tharp has info on Watkins appointments.
File this one under Worst Kept Secrets in the Courthouse: District Attorney-elect Craig Watkins officially named Fort Worth attorney Terri Moore as his first assistant. Moore, who twice ran unsuccessfully for d.a. in Tarrant County(most recently last November), has been the odds-on bet for the [...]

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The Dallas Morning News Editorial
Something to Talk About
10:35 AM CST on Sunday, December 17, 2006
Two questions about the Dallas County jails, but only one clear answer.
Where was Sheriff Lupe Valdez when a radioactive U.S. Department of Justice report hit the streets? (Turkey, as it turns out.)
And what’s she doing about the seemingly intractable [...]

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Paying the Piper
By Matt Pulle, Dallas Observer Article Published Dec 7, 2006
Lew Sterrett Justice Center, a bad place to get sickAn inmate lawsuit, whose allegations of incompetence and neglect at the Dallas County jail have been echoed by a pair of internal investigations into the health care at the facility, continues to stymie the [...]

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Feds Detail Fatal Dangers at Jail: Suit Threatened Over Care; Dallas County Officials Say Conditions ImprovingBy Kevin Krause, The Dallas Morning News
Dec. 13–Conditions in the Dallas County Jail are so dangerous, they have contributed to the death and injury of numerous inmates and placed others at “risk of serious harm,” a U.S. Department of [...]

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Anyone interested in reading the entire Department of Justice Report on the jail can get it from The Dallas Morning News website. www.dallasnews.com

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/4397377.html
Justice Dept. report: Dallas jail conditions violate rightsBy MATT CURRY-The Associated Press
DALLAS — The Dallas County Jail, one of the largest in the country, violates the constitutional rights of inmates by failing to provide adequate medical and mental health care, according to an eyebrow-raising federal report.
Page after page of violations are detailed in a letter [...]

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Well it’s finally here. The United States Department of Justice has sent District Attorney Bill Hill and other elected officials a scathing rebuke over the way Dallas County has treated inmates.
In a letter dated December 8, 2006, Assistant United States Attorney General Wan Kim told Dallas that the jail is “grossly inadequate.” Anyone with [...]

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