3 Harris County defendants no longer to face death penalty prosecutions
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Omar Torres , a suspected MS-13 gang member, is accused in a capital murder that spanned two counties.Handout / Houston Police DepartmentShow MoreShow Less
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Crosby security guard Steven Alexander Hobbs has been charged with the murders of two women and multiple rapes of sex workers.Harris County Sheriff s OfficeShow MoreShow Less
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Douglas Alexander Herrera-Hernandez is accused in a capital murder that spanned two counties.ProvidedShow MoreShow Less
Three capital murder defendants in Harris County, including two suspected MS-13 gang members and a former security guard, will no longer face death penalty prosecutions, according to records from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
TX Supreme Court orders Alfred Brown, wrongfully convicted of murder, be compensated for time behind bars
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Alfred Dewayne Brown, 33, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in October 2005. After 12 years imprisoned, his conviction was overturned after the discovery of evidence substantiating his alibi.Marie D. De Jesus, Staff / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Alfred Brown walks out of the Harris County Jail with his daughter Kierra Brown, 15, right on Monday, June 8, 2015, in Houston. ( Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle )Karen Warren, Staff / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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(center) Alfred Brown smiles with a mouth full of pecan pie as the investigator that worked on his case Suzette Ermler hugs Brown s shoulders Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Monday District Attorney Devon Anderson dropped the capital murder charges against Alfred Brown and he was released Monday. Alfred Brown had been sentenced to death in the 2003 killing of
Editorial: Look out. Voter fraud zealots are armed and dangerous.
Dec. 18, 2020
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Dr. Steven Hotze (l-r), attorney and former Harris County Republican Party Chair Jared Woodfill held a press conference to discuss his election fraud claims and answer questions about the arrest of an ex-cop who he hired to investigate the claims Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, in Houston.Steve Gonzales, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
It’s all fun and games until an innocent AC repairman gets run off the road, held at gunpoint and accused of conspiratorial ballot harvesting.
You can’t make this stuff up - unless you’re the right wing of the Republican Party of Texas. For them, this stuff, to employ a family friendly euphemism, seems to flow forth with the regularity of a sewer leak after a hard Houston rain.
December 16, 2020 10:57 a.m.
A former Houston police captain convinced of a vast conspiracy to steal the election allegedly ran a man off the road and held him at gunpoint, believing there were thousands of illegal ballots in the back of the man’s box truck.
In fact, Mark Anthony Aguirre’s alleged victim was an ordinary air conditioner repairman, prosecutors say. There was nothing fishy in the back of his truck, nor in the repairman’s home in a nearby mobile home community in Houston, which Aguirre said he and others had surveilled for four days straight, police said.
But it gets stranger: The day after the ex-cop allegedly held the terrified repairman at gunpoint, convinced of a massive election conspiracy that did not exist, he received a wire transfer for $211,400, according to prosecutors. The money came from a conservative group that’s pumped up election fraud conspiracy theories, and which is led by prominent right-wing activists in Texas.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Friday that three people had been indicted over attempts to influence two Texas House races during the 2020 election cycle. Credit: Kelly West for The Texas Tribune
A Harris County grand jury has indicted three people who tried to illegally influence races in two Houston-area state House districts during the 2020 election cycle, District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Friday.
The impacted districts were House District 132 and House District 142, currently represented by state Reps. Gina Calanni, D-Katy, and Harold Dutton, D-Houston, respectively. Dutton s reelection bid made headlines earlier this year after questions were raised about whether one of the candidates on the ballot in his March primary actually existed. None of the allegations involved the voting process or the casting of illegal ballots.