Courts & Criminal Justice

The same day the Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Robert Roberson’s execution to consider the use of “junk science” in his conviction, the state’s highest criminal court denied a Dallas County man’s challenge to the use of what his attorneys say is flawed eyewitness testimony in his case.

Former Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales' trial—connected to the Uvalde Robb Elementary School shooting—is moved to Nueces County and is set to begin on Jan. 5, 2026.

Judge Amber Givens sued Dallas County for excluding her from a $500,000 supplement earmarked in the budget for all other judges.

A Collin County man's unsuccessful request to seal his divorce records highlights the high standard of proof required to keep even deeply personal court proceedings private and the unpredictability of the process.

From sexual abuse that began in the 1980s to his guilty plea more than 30 years later, this is a timeline of everything that happened in Robert Morris' legal saga.

A class of 15 university students hopes to find breaks in three decades-old homicide investigations.

The 1991 murder of four girls has long remained unsolved.

Statewide appeals court justices heard oral arguments Wednesday in Attorney General Ken Paxton's appeal of a ruling against his office that would temporarily stop him from enforcing case reporting rules against primarily Democratic elected attorneys in the state's most populous counties.

Judge Vonda Bailey, among other elected county officials, has solicited donations on social media from her courtroom.

A majority of the proposed constitutional amendments address tax cuts for homeowners and businesses.

Dallas County District Judge Amber Givens filed a suit Monday alleging county commissioners unlawfully excluded her from the supplemental pay approved for all the county's other judges as part of the county's fiscal year 2026 budget.

Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown in an open letter to media sent Sept. 5 disputed reports that the jail was at or over its capacity.