Tarrant County District Attorney

In separate lawsuits, five urban prosecutors argue the AG's new requirements exceed his legal authority.

Under state law, every death in county jail custody triggers an independent investigation. That requirement places too big a burden on law enforcement, Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells wrote in a letter to the state attorney general's office.

The previous district attorney sided with Paul Storey’s defense team, agreeing that he deserved a new trial. The current one is asking the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up Storey’s case.

This is the first time since 2014 that a Texas county has sent more than one person to death row in a single year, according to a new report from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

A law passed in 2023 allows prosecutors to seek murder charges against someone who gives another person a fatal dose of fentanyl.

Crystal Mason was accused of voting illegally in Tarrant County but was acquitted in March. The Tarrant County DA appealed the acquittal.

Debra Mae Carter was found guilty of money laundering by a North Texas jury, nearly two years after Gallagher was sentenced to three life sentences.

The Tarrant County DA's office has resolved its civil claims against Temptation Cabaret's Fort Worth-based landlord, but the strip club remains permanently closed.

Johnson died in jail custody after a jailer knelt on his back while he was restrained on the ground. His death has been ruled a homicide.

Willie Thomas spent more than a decade in prison before renewed testing proved his DNA wasn't on the weapon investigators found on the scene of a 2009 Fort Worth murder.

A new state law allows Texas prosecutors to charge people with murder if they give someone else a deadly dose of fentanyl.

The three prosecutors will focus solely on large-scale distributors of drugs like fentanyl, heroin and meth.