Subject: Harris County District Attorney's Office

• The Brothers Graham (Part I)

  Once upon a time in Humble, there lived two guys named Pat and Mike. They had a way of making people believe, and those people included some of Texas' highest public officials. While it turned out that their stories usually were just too good to be true,

  March 28, 1996

• Prosecutors Dismiss Assault Charges in J Prince Gym Beating Case

  July 10, 2008

• HPD Cops Indicted For Stealing From HPD Cops

  July 17, 2008

• Broken Promises

  Fourth Ward residents are left with a harsh reality

  October 28, 1999

• Waldhauser Watch

  A story about the new life and old ways of a notorious killer spurs indictments and national coverage

  December 30, 1999

• The Specialist

  September 2, 2004

• Change Comes To The Harris County Courthouse

  November 5, 2008

• The Gangs Among Us

  July 14, 1994

• Autopsy

  January 25, 1996

• Fleck Exonerated; Stockman Sued

  June 27, 1996

• Letters

  July 11, 1996

• Split Decision

  August 8, 1996

• The Kingdom and the Power

  October 3, 1996

• Blood Sport

  November 21, 1996

• King Con

  February 6, 1997

• Death of an Informant

  July 24, 1997

• Dissecting Dr. Carter

  March 5, 1998

• Insider

  March 19, 1998

• Trivial Pursuit

  August 13, 1998

• Cop vs. Cop

  February 25, 1999

• Killer On The Loose

  June 24, 1999

• Not Everyone Is Cheering DA Pat Lykos's Latest Move

  Photo courtesy Pat Lykos for DAIf you look up "throwing someone under the bus" in the dictionary of clichés, you might just find the following example from Pat Lykos's braver, newer Harris County District Attorneys Office used as illustration. Not content to keep her ire in-house about a recent jury selection gone awry, Lykos lambasted two of her prosecutors in the pages of the Chronicle. During the jury selection of the murder trial of Ricky Whitfield last Tuesday, prosecutors Mark Donnelly an

  March 31, 2009

• Shin Splits

  July 29, 1999

• Who's Crying Now?

  October 23, 2008

• Priscilla Slade and the TSU Three

  November 29, 2007

• Woodwind Lakes subdivision built on oil and gas field turns on neighbor who pointed out the contamination

  April 12, 2007

• Turkeys of the Year

  Just stuff 'em

  November 24, 2005

• Toy Story

  An HPD sex-toy crackdown goes limp

  October 20, 2005

• Insanely Guilty

  A mother sets out to save her children, by killing them. Texas usually jails such women, but that may be changing.

  January 20, 2005

• Building a Case

  Did prosecutors use -- or abuse -- a little-known remodeling law?

  August 15, 2002

• Getting Wasted

  Local officials say they are only after compliance and cleanups. Critics claim otherwise.

  January 31, 2002

• (Dis)order in the Court

  July 1, 1999

• Queen of the Good Ol' Boys

  The macho world of trial law is ruled by tough, hard-driving men -- and by Katherine Scardino, a tough, hard-driving woman

  March 25, 1999

• A Question of Rape

  It couldn't happen inside a nice suburban school like Jersey Village High ... could it?

  December 19, 1996

• After 22 Years Of Wrongful Imprisonment, Two More Days To Freedom

  A man convicted of rape in 1987, based largely on questionable HPD crime lab data, and sentenced to life in prison is expected to be released on bond Thursday, according to the Harris County District Attorney's Office. Recent DNA test results show "discrepancies between the new tests and evidence presented" at the trial of Gary Richard, 53, according to the office's press release. Richard's is the first of approximately 160 cases tied to allegedly faulty HPD crime lab analysis to go to court on

  April 27, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: Some Arrests, And Sex Gone Wrong

  Houston police have arrested Harry Dwight Williams for allegedly shooting a 19-year-old man and his girlfriend earlier this month at McCullough Park. Police say that James Smith, 19, was walking through the park with his girlfriend when he saw Williams, and the two men started arguing. When they started exchanging blows, Williams pulled out a pistol and shot Smith and his girlfriend multiple times.Smith died at the scene, and his girlfriend was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital in critical cond

  June 26, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: Nothing Good Comes From A Naked, Gun-Toting Man

  Houston police officers at the Northeast Patrol Division substation got more than just a shock Tuesday when a car wildly crashed through the facility's security gate. They ended up in a shootout in which the driver of the car was killed. According to a mix of police and media reports, officers from Aldine ISD were in a high-speed chase with Tony Johnson, 29, who was reportedly driving erratically and holding a gun to his head. Driving a white Mitsubishi Mirage, Johnson made his way at about 2:4

  July 15, 2009

• Complain About BARC, Find Yourself Charged With A Crime

  Photo by bf_photos The Harris County District Attorney's Office has charged a BARC volunteer for filing a false police report regarding animal abuse he said he heard while at the city's animal control facility. Shelby Kibodeaux was charged July 1 with the class B misdemeanor, which carries a penalty of 180 days in jail and/or a fine up to $2,000. After speaking with Kibodeaux this week, and being blown off by just about everyone else, Hair Balls's articulate, cogent and measu

  July 23, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: Don't Mess With A Cop's K-9

  ​You don't mess with a man's dog. Especially if that man is a cop. At about 4:30 p.m. Friday, Houston police officer W.G. Smith made his way to an apartment complex at 7100 Renwick to check out a burglary that was supposedly going on. As Smith was heading up to the apartment, one of the people who lived there got home to find his TV was on, that his front window was broken and saw what he thought was someone inside his place, police say. When Smith arrived at the residence, a man, who is be

  July 29, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: There Actually Is An Ax-Murderer On The Loose

  ​Did Houston police officer R.G. Gardiner shoot John Barnes on Saturday evening unnecessarily?The police department says no. The official version goes that Gardiner, who was working an off-duty security job at the Woodland Hills Village Apartments at 2139 Lake Hills Drive, saw Barnes and a woman arguing outside their home. When Gardiner approached Barnes and tried to arrest him, Barnes ignored him and the two men got into a struggle. Barnes then disarmed Gardiner of his Taser and pointed t

  August 4, 2009

• Two Cousins Nabbed In Mexico For Separate Houston Murders

  ​Two men wanted for separate Houston murders were caught together in Guadalajara, Mexico yesterday afternoon. The crimes, which occurred about two years apart, were unrelated. The suspected killers are cousins. "Murder runs in this family," said homicide detective Michael Miller of the Houston Police Department at a press conference this afternoon. Timoteo Rios, 24, was wanted for the April 2008 slaying of Tina Davila. Davila was stabbed and killed outside a cell phone store when she refused

  August 12, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: Where Have All The Killers Gone?

  ​As the temperature slowly begins to dip, so too it seems that the number of murdered bodies found in and around Houston are fewer and fewer.But that certainly doesn't mean there's no action for the police.On Wednesday at about 8:30 p.m., a 37-year-old woman and her roommate began arguing in their home at 5504 Wipprecht Street. That quarrel soon turned into an all-out fight, police say, when the woman began assaulting her roommate. Fearing for her safety, the roommate grabbed a gun and called

  October 20, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: A Police Shooting Over An Open Beer

  ​There is something to be said about the importance of solid doors, strong locks and a secure home. Think not? Well, the carnage over the past several days may change your mind.It was Friday evening, about 7 p.m., when 18-year-old Jubelle Serano was taking care of her 6-year-old sister at their home at 2539 South Camden Parkway. Suddenly, Serano heard some strange noises. Someone was trying to break into the house.Serano quickly called her boyfriend, who sped over to Serano's place. When he go

  November 9, 2009

• Bayou Body Count: A Stench At The Airport

  ​George Bush Intercontinental Airport may not be on the same level as mythic Mafioso burial grounds such as JFK in New York or the airport in Newark, N.J., but it still finds a stiff every once in a while.Last week, airport police got a call about a terrible stench coming from the parking lot of the D terminal. And as we have learned here at Bayou Body Count, a foul stench coming from a parking lot can only mean one thing: a body.Sure enough, police tracked the smell down to a Ford Focus parke

  November 19, 2009