Longtime Medical Examiner Dr. Nizam Peerwani found his top deputy, Dr. Marc Kraus, made 59 mistakes in death investigations last year. Kraus was barred from performing autopsies in murder cases in November and left the office just last week. From our perspective and I m speaking collectively as the defense bar, it s really unprecedented,” Varghese said.
Defense attorneys say the revelations potentially raise questions about the prosecution of murder cases – past and present. Everyone is beyond shocked that this could have happened and now it s going to be raised in every case where the Tarrant County Medical Examiner has touched the file,” Varghese said.
Amber Guyger, Former Dallas Police Officer, Appeals Conviction for Shooting Neighbor
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Amber Guyger to appeal murder conviction in death of Botham Jean
She has served one and a half years of her 10-year sentence and will have her appeal heard by a panel of judges next week.
Botham Jean.
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CBS DFW, Guyger will have her appeal heard by a panel of judges a year and a half into her 10-year sentence. She was convicted of shooting and killing Jean, who lived in an apartment directly above hers. According to her argument, she mistakenly got off on the wrong floor and entered his apartment, thinking he was an intruder in her home.
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DALLAS Dallas Chief of Police Eddie Garcia says he was disappointed to learn the charges were dropped Thursday against a former police officer arrested and accused of capital murder when prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence to support probable cause in the case.
Garcia reiterated a statement from the agency released on Wednesday saying the department respected the judge’s decision, but they had a probable cause affidavit approved by a judge before taking former officer Bryan Riser into custody, NBC 5 reported.
Riser had been accused of ordering three men, Kevin Kidd, Emmanuel Kilpatrick and Jermon Simmons, to kill Albert Douglas and Lisa Saenz in 2017, Law Officer reported.
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A former Dallas police officer arrested last month on capital murder charges has been released from jail and had his charges dropped after a judge ruled he could not be held, according to reports.
Bryan Riser, a 13-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, was accused of hiring three people to kill Albert Douglas and Lisa Saenz in 2017.
He was freed on a $5 million bond following a preliminary hearing Wednesday. Dallas County Criminal Court Judge Audrey Moorehead found that police did not have enough evidence to keep Riser behind bars.
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