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I promised the citizens of Dallas were going to be trying to get rid of those folks until the day I leave office- whether publishers like that or not. You never can be sure about the figures, but I heard that we have gone from thirty-nine adult bookstores to seventeen, and it was reported to me a month ago that five of those are going to shut down. The questions are the same: Mr. District Attorney, Mr. Vance, how are you going to handle Randall Dale Adams? Former Dallas DA Faith Johnson Lands Softly | Dallas Observer Cases overturnedTroubling cases surfaced in the 1980s, as Wade's career was winding down. But it doesnt take this mass of brick and mortar for Vance to make his presence known. He and his cadre of assistant DAs all of them white men, early on consistently reported annual conviction rates above 90 percent. Despite what may or may not have happened Friday night, Warner was fired from her job by Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson on Monday afternoon. Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot hasnt sought the death penalty since taking office. The chief ADA, Executive ADA, or first ADA, depending on the office, is generally considered the second-in-command, and usually reports directly to the DA. Everything's being recorded. He began his legal life as a cuff-'em-and-stuff-'em baby prosecutor under Henry Wade, then morphed into a high-dollar white-collar criminal defense attorney. The exact roles and job assignments for each title vary with each individual office, but generally include management of the daily activities and supervision of specialized divisions within the office. "There was a cowboy kind of mentality and the reality is that kind of approach is archaic, racist, elitist and arrogant," said Watkins, who is 40 and never worked for Wade or met him. Initially, Vance responds with the short, barked orders one might expect from a former Marine Corps sergeant. The amount of $750 is the value of stolen items that under state law is at most a Class B misdemeanor. I did an internal review of that case as well, and determined the appropriate course of action was to discipline the prosecutor and to take action to prevent mistakes regarding disclosure from happening in the future, which includes mandatory ongoing training for all prosecutors.

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