Lisa FalkenbergPart 12: The power of a Pulitzer is in the light it shinesWithin minutes, the Harris County district attorney's decision on whether to retry a...
Lisa FalkenbergPart 11: DA's probe of former death row inmate raises concernsThe evidence, if you'll recall, had turned up in the garage of a homicide detective. Much...
Lisa FalkenbergPart 10: Evidence mounts that wrong man on death row for killing HPD officerPotential innocence isn't the only thing Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson is...
Lisa FalkenbergPart 9: Questionable murder case keeps on crumblingThere's a lost chapter to Alfred Dewayne Brown's sordid tale of injustice, one that could...
Lisa FalkenbergPart 8: Campaign vow shouldn't influence DA in dubious caseA killer is trying to get off. At least, that's what we think when we read these kinds of...
HoustonPart 7: Court resets trial after finding evidence withheldTexas' highest criminal court on Wednesday threw out the 2005 conviction and death...
Lisa FalkenbergPart 6: DA candidates say 'pick-a-pal' grand jury system must goOf all the platform positions Kim Ogg lists on her campaign handout, No. 5 is my favorite....
Lisa FalkenbergPart 5: Does 'pick-a-pal' system give you a grand jury of peers?The horrible thing about judges, magistrates, detectives, policemen and other "legal...
Lisa FalkenbergPart 4: Cop was foreman of grand jury in cop-killingDockery was questioned only 18 days after veteran Houston Police Officer Charles R. Clark...
Lisa FalkenbergPart 3: Exoneree helps open painful door to past, and maybe truthFor years, Dockery had eluded appellate attorneys for death row inmate Alfred Dewayne...
Lisa FalkenbergPart 2: Mom of 3 pressured into changing story, but jailed anywayFor 120 days, Ericka Dockery sat in a Harris County jail cell on Baker Street, a place she...
Lisa FalkenbergPart 1: A disturbing glimpse into the Texas grand jury systemIn May, I reported that a land-line phone record supporting Brown's contention that he...
Lisa FalkenbergThe backstory: Wheels of justice grind slowly on death row[...] for a while, the 23-year-old Brown sat and listened - just as he had for days to...
HoustonFalkenberg wins Houston Chronicle's first PulitzerHouston Chronicle Metro columnist Lisa Falkenberg was named winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, one of 14 awards announced Monday in the most prestigious contest in American journalism....
LocalSlain officer's gun ruled out in tragedyTests on slain Houston police Officer Charles Clark's gun, which jammed moments before he...
LocalTestimony ends in trial for officer's murderAfter hearing testimony from a man who took part in a robbery that ended with the fatal...
LocalRobber convicted in slayings at check-cashing storeA man accused of plotting the robbery of a check cashing store that ended in the fatal...
LocalMan is sentenced to death for role in robbery, slayingsA man was sentenced to death Thursday for his role in the botched robbery of a check...
LocalStudy: Police ties common in grand juriesA 1940 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court requires that grand juries — the panels of...
LocalAccused killer of police officer goes on trialA man accused of killing a Houston police officer whose gun jammed as he tried to stop a...
LocalRobber convicted of killing police officerHarris County jury convicted a robber of capital murder today in the execution-style...
LocalHouston policeman's killer convicted of capital murderA Harris County jury convicted a man Tuesday of capital murder in the slaying of a Houston...
LocalMan sentenced to death in officer's killingA man convicted of the execution-style killing of a Houston police officer showed no...
LocalSlayings role nets 30-year sentence for manBecause he helped send his two accomplices to death row, Dashan Vadell Glaspie was granted...
LocalSupreme Court refuses to hear Houston killer's appealThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of capital murderer Elijah...
