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Sep 25, 2024 · On Friday, July 23, 2021, Austin 9-1-1 received a call from a victim who said he had been stabbed. The victim, later identified as Nikolas Eugenio Martinez, was able to drive a short distance to a convenience store in the 2000 block of S. IH 35, where several citizens attempted to assist him.
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- What Is “Arrest Review”?
- Principles and Precedents
- What Does The Law Say?
- “We’re Going to Take Their Lead”
At the heart of the allegations is frustration among police over new policies implemented by both the C.A. and D.A. that allow their offices’ prosecutors to review probable cause affidavits, which are filed by officers in the field before a suspect is arrested without a warrant and booked into the Travis County Jail. In some instances, this review ...
The arrest review policies, put into effect at the county attorney’s office on March 1 and at the D.A.’s Office on April 1, stem from several principles. One is simply to limit the jail population, an ongoing goal in Travis County for many reasons – ethical, fiscal, and now to prevent the spread of COVID – by not incarcerating people who are accuse...
These endorsements notwithstanding, APA President Ken Casaday says that the way in which the two Garzas have implemented arrest review in Travis County violates the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure – specifically, articles 14.06 and 15.17, which cover arrests without and with a warrant, respectively. Both sections say that when a suspect is taken i...
What Casaday and other police backers – including the Save Austin Now political action committee and Gov. Greg Abbott and the leaders of the Texas Legislature – think of the Garzas’ policies translates directly into what officers in the field are telling Austinites who call for help, according to the two prosecutors. José Garza makes reference in h...
Jul 23, 2021 · The Travis County District Attorney's Office has dropped its felony assault case against Austin Police Department Officer Gregory Gentry, after an internal review of the case file uncovered...
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Apr 19, 2021 · AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former Texas sheriff's deputy was booked on a capital murder charge Monday after police say he shot and killed his ex-wife, teenage stepdaughter and another man during a weekend shooting that shut down a busy Austin shopping area and set off an overnight manhunt.
