Emerson Clarridge
Reporter at Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Reporter @startelegram. Past: @OWHnews. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
star-telegram.com | Emerson Clarridge
Punishment in state courts in Texas is, if the defendant elects, left to juries. After a presentation of evidence, argument and a guilty verdict at trial, the legal system regularly asks a panel of people to answer a version of the question, “What would you do?”For one member of a jury in Tarrant County that reached a punishment verdict on Monday, it was a familiar query.
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yahoo.com | Emerson Clarridge
“For the last week, I had the honor of serving as the Jury Foreman in a Sex Trafficking trial in Ft. Worth, Texas,” John Quiñones wrote in an Instagram post. “I was very surprised that as a true crime journalist at @abc2020 and host of @wwydabc I would be selected! But, indeed I was. Such a privilege to serve with a jury of my peers. Thank you, Texas state judge Julie Lugo, to the prosecutors, Assistant DA, William Vassar and Stephanie Simpson. Defense Attys., Shane Lewis & Jake Wiggins.
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yahoo.com | Emerson Clarridge
Two people were shot early Monday near J.A. Hargrave Elementary in Tarrant County, and a gun was found in a field on the Crowley school district campus, authorities said. Deputies found one victim on North Crowley Cleburne Road outside the school and another at a residence nearby. They were taken to hospitals and are expected to survive, a Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said. Authorities did not announced an arrest.
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1 week ago |
star-telegram.com | Emerson Clarridge
A man drowned on Sunday while swimming at the West Fork Trinity River in northwest Fort Worth, police said. Mahoning Matters A man drowned on Sunday while swimming in the West Fork Trinity River in northwest Fort Worth, police said. The swimmer drowned about 4:45 p.m. in the river near the 2500 block of Roberts Cut Off Road. Fort Worth Fire Department divers were at the scene Sunday night trying to retrieve the man’s body.
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2 weeks ago |
star-telegram.com | Emerson Clarridge
About four years before police believe she killed her baby and herself by intentionally driving her car into the Trinity River, Melanie Robinson tried either to push another son off of a bridge or convince the boy to jump, according to state district court records in Tarrant County. Fort Worth police arrested Robinson in connection with the June 5, 2021, bridge incident on South Freeway where it leads to an I-20 ramp. The boy’s age is not clear.
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A report that recounts the circumstances of a death in Southlake
Using mostly texts and court testimony, @nathanfenno and @LATimesWharton craft this tragic Column One narrative. Though we know what happens, tension still builds as texts reveal a family's journey from confusion to worry to fear. https://t.co/4DxPknsPtv
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After four days of testimony covering muzzle imprint, blood loss, fingernail clippings, the phrase “source of sperm” and the hell of quadriplegia, defendant Fayaka Dunbar’s capital murder trial in Tarrant County is in recess until Monday.