Entries for December, 2012 in On the Docket
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Small town grapples with parody Twitter accounts, draws national attention
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
It's the end of the year and, for news organizations, that means top 10 lists galore. I've lived in Texas all my life and spent four years attending college in Huntsville, what's known as the prison capital of the Lone ...
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By jessicapriest in On the Docket
Last week, I got to sit in on my first federal trial in Victoria, and it was about, of all things, bald eagles. I got some reader response from my reports about Sam Mathew, a Missouri City man charged with ...
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Should sitting in a pew be a punishment?
By jessicapriest in On the Docket
Updated at 6 p.m.: An Oklahoma judge thought Jesus was the answer for a 17-year-old convicted of driving under the influence manslaughter. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union is calling for the judge to get a punishment of his own ...
