On Valentine’s Day in 2022, nine-year-old Arlene Alvarez was shot and killed. A beautiful little girl, whose life had just started, taken from her mother, father, and brother in an instant. Arlene loved to make videos. She loved to paint nails. She was silly and sassy, and her mom was her best friend. Arlene was just going out for pizza that night with her family. Like hundreds of other families across Harris County. When everything changed. Today, a jury brought Arlene justice for the second ti

Judge Indicted After Pen Camera Records Contempt Arrest On June 27, 2022, Judge Darrell Jordan, of Harris County, Texas, was indicted on the misdemeanor state-law charge of Official Oppression for ordering the contempt arrest of journalist Wayne Dolcefino. The arrest of Dolcefino occurred exactly two years earlier, on June 30, 2020, while Judge Jordan was presiding over County Criminal Court at Law No. 16 of Harris County, Texas. Using a pen camera, Dolcefino surreptitiously recorded his arrest.

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