Dallas County prosecutor who withheld evidence disbarred after two 2 men cleared of murder
Richard “Rick” E. Jackson is just the fourth lawyer in the country to lose a law license after egregious misconduct that led to a wrongful conviction.
Rick Jackson, left, when he was a Dallas County prosecutor. He was disbarred in April after he withheld evidence in the capital murder trials of two men who were exonerated.(file photo)
This story was updated at 1:20 p.m. with comments from Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot.
A former Dallas County prosecutor quietly surrendered his law license last month after the State Bar of Texas said he withheld evidence that led to the wrongful convictions of two men in the slaying of a South Dallas pastor.
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Former Dallas cop Amber Guyger asking appellate court to toss murder conviction for killing Botham Jean
Former Dallas cop Amber Guyger asking appellate court to toss murder conviction for killing Botham Jean
Jurors convicted Guyger in 2019 of murder for fatally shooting Botham Jean in his own apartment. Now her lawyers want justices to acquit her of murder and find her guilty on a lesser charge.
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 2018 shooting death of Botham Jean.(Archive Photos)
Lawyers for former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger will make their case Tuesday before a panel of appellate justices to toss her murder conviction. Dallas County prosecutors say the jury’s decision should stand.
Man killed in parking lot of Stemmons Corridor nude club XTC Cabaret
Dallas police say they were called to the all-nude club after 3 a.m. Monday, where they found Gregory Chandler, 32, shot multiple times.
The XTC Cabaret Dallas photographed on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. (Shaban Athuman / Staff Photographer)
Revised to include surveillance images.
A 32-year-old man was found fatally shot early Monday in the parking lot of the XTC Cabaret all-nude club in the Stemmons Corridor, Dallas police say.
Officers were called about 3:15 a.m. to the club along North Stemmons Freeway, near Regal Row and Harry Hines Boulevard, where they found Gregory Chandler shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene.