Travis County, TX — Today, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, former Austin Police Department Sergeant Brian Yarger pleaded guilty to Assault Causing Bodily Injury and Official Oppression, both Class A misdemeanors, pursuant to an investigation concerning his excessive force during the arrest of Shaun Johnson on June 2, 2024 (case D1DC24900154). In exchange for his guilty […]
Travis County, TX — On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, the Honorable Judge Karen Sage issued an order for Alvin Stewart, 42, who did not receive a fair trial in 2002, to be released from custody. Judge Sage resentenced Mr. Stewart for his 2002 aggravated robbery conviction after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) granted […]
Travis County, TX — On Monday, January 27, 2025, a Travis County Judge in the 403rd Judicial Court signed an order recommending that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals set aside Terrance Caesar’s 2013 Burglary of Habitation conviction and send his case back to the District Court for a new trial due to several serious […]
TCADO Joined Ms. Jimenez’s Counsel to Dismiss on the Basis of Actual Innocence Travis County, TX – Today, Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced that Judge Sage signed the State’s Motion to Dismiss Rosa Jimenez’s Murder and Injury to a Child Indictment, in which the State asserted that it has determined no credible evidence […]
Travis County, TX – Today, Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced that our office filed a motion to dismiss the Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon case against Billy Faircloth based on insufficient evidence after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted post-conviction relief to Mr. Faircloth. On Wednesday, March 29, 2023, the Texas […]
