Southlake appoints new municipal court judge
City Council confirmed Judge Lindsay Marie Kinzie to serve on the Southlake Municipal Court of Records.
The City Council has appointed a new judge in Southlake.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
The Southlake City Council has appointed a new associate judge to the Municipal Court of Records.
Judge Lindsay Marie Kinzie assumed her new role Saturday. She had most recently served as legal program director at The Gatehouse, a Grapevine nonprofit dedicated to supporting women.
She has also served as assistant district attorney in the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office and as a criminal defense attorney for a private law firm in Fort Worth. She earned her law degree from Texas Tech University.
Fort Worth Weekly
A recent report highlights the strengths and shortcomings in our local criminal justice system.
By Edward Brown
Geoff Burkhart: âWe regularly get calls from people in Tarrant County, whether they be judges, commissioners, private attorneys, or state reps . who are interested in getting a public defenderâs office in Tarrant County.
Photo courtesy of Texas Indigent Defense Commission.
Tarrant County is the largest county by population in the United States without a public defenderâs office â the nonprofit or governmental groups that fund the legal defenses of indigent individuals through salaried public defenders (defense lawyers). One state expert on indigent defense said that may change in the next several years.
Krouse is set to leave the medical examiner s office later this month.
The defendant in the death penalty case, Tilon Lashon Carter, was convicted in 2006 for the murder and home invasion robbery of 89-year-old James Tomlin after Peerwani offered key testimony during the trial.
Westfall focused largely on Peerwani’s testimony that the victim was suffocated, which Peerwani later acknowledged was just a possibility and may not have happened at all, according to the judge s finding.
Peerwani also failed to disclose that he found a pacemaker in Tomlin’s chest during his autopsy, which could have suggested he died of a cardiac issue instead of a respiratory one, the judge said.
Fort Worth Weekly
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After being charged with sexual assault of a child under the age of 17 and sexual abuse of a child under 14, according to Fort Worth police,
Gabriel Gomez, frontman for the long-running local alt-rock band
Leroy the Prophet, is free on bond. A county magistrate recently reduced the $260,000 amount to
$60,000. The reduction was the work of the judge and not the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office. Such decisions are commonly made without the DA’s input.
The family of one of the victims is reportedly convinced that Gomez is a
flight risk. Messages to Gomez’ attorney have not been returned.
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