Officials with the Texas Department of Corrections reject the notion that the recent addition of cooling fans that look transplanted straight from the sidelines of an NFL game are in response to numerous lawsuits and inmate deaths due to heat exposure. Yeah, right. The cooling equipment employs a large fan inside about a 6-foot-by-6-foot box.
Russell Neal, one of the founding members of nineties pop group Hi-Five, is accused of fatally stabbing his wife inside the couple’s apartment. HPD homicide detectives said she had been stabbed several times. They also detected evidence of blunt force trauma, authorities said. One of their songs, “I Like the Way (the Kissing Game)” hit
Former Dallas Police Officer Quaitemes Williams has been convicted of official oppression for an incident where he beat and kicked a handcuffed suspect in the head during a traffic stop for an invalid license plate. He was subsequently fired; now he could face up to a year behind bars. Official Oppression is a class A
In Riley v. California, the Supreme Court found unanimously that when a person is arrested a cellphone may not be searched without a warrant. In response, officers nationwide (Los Angeles to New York, and even in Houston) officials met to discuss Wednesday’s unanimous ruling that prohibits law enforcement from searching an arrestee’s cellphone without a
