Dallas County District Attorney

David Rojas was found guilty after forensic genetic genealogy linked him to Mary Kelly's 1989 murder and rape in Oak Cliff.

David Rojas is accused of strangling and raping Oak Cliff resident Mary Hague Kelly in 1989.

Texas has paid more than $50 million to compensate people wrongfully convicted of crimes in Dallas County.

Ben Spencer was accused in part because of false testimony. He was formally exonerated in a Dallas court on Thursday.

The $12,500 will go toward purchasing transportation vouchers for participants to make it to their court-ordered appointments.

The court ruled Dallas County prosecutors shouldn't have used videos of a Greenville man rapping about drugs, weapons and not snitching about crimes to make their case against him in a 2019 capital murder trial.

Police in Dallas won't pursue criminal charges from a seven-year-old sexual assault claim against Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, according to a television report Thursday.

Charles Don Flores is on death row for a 1998 Farmers Branch murder. A professor says his and others' research on witness memory could prove Flores' innocence.

Richard Leal, 33, was convicted last week of delivering between four and 200 grams of fentanyl and other drugs, which now carries a harsher criminal penalty under a Texas law passed last year.

Watkins was praised nationally for freeing wrongfully convicted prisoners but also was known for a controversial tenure as Dallas County's district attorney.

Texas prosecutors have dropped murder charges against two people in the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Seattle woman as a trial continues with the third defendant.

The Dallas County District Attorney's Office has established a protocol for defense attorneys whose cases may be affected by deletion of Dallas Police Department body-worn camera videos.