Understaffed specialized prosecutors in Bexar County’s Family Violence Division still need to get through 6,177 total domestic violence cases including both felony and misdemeanor cases.

No one is denying it: there is a massive backlog of domestic violence cases in Bexar County, and across Texas. It’s a subject KSAT has been following for eight years now.

A San Antonio nurse went from helping a patient to becoming one himself, according to a police report.

A man was sentenced to ten years in prison after he exploited an older person and made a false statement to obtain property, according to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.

A man accused of a double murder and arson to cover up the crime had his capital murder charge dismissed Tuesday morning.

A motion filed by the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office to recuse itself from Erik Cantu’s evading arrest cases has been postponed until later this month.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales is getting ready for a potential legal battle against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Attorney Nico LaHood said the charges against his client — a mother accused of giving her son’s alleged bully a non-toxic, concocted drink — were manufactured to fit a circumstance that was never criminal.

The Attorney General’s proposed rule could affect the Bexar County District Attorney’s office, which has been scrutinized for its handling of violent crime cases.

A proposed rule by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton would allow him to remove some DA's who do not provide additional reporting on certain cases.

More than 400 pages of emails between DA Joe Gonzales and Wren Collective show conversations about policy and SAPD Chief William McManus.

There’s been a trend of district attorney offices influenced by political groups and nonprofits, according to a law professor at Texas A&M University School of Law.

A Georgia man who brought his nine year old daughter to San Antonio over Thanksgiving to visit her mother has not seen his child for months, after his ex-wife declined to return her to a child exchange location, San Antonio police and court records show.

The San Antonio Police Officers’ Association is calling out the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office for the way former officers are treated in court.

Recent tensions between the San Antonio Police Department and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office sparked by the shooting of six SAPD officers within a two-week span while in pursuit of suspects triggered this KSAT Explains.

The father of a man killed in 2020 has been asking the Bexar County District Attorney's Office to have a new attorney give the case a second look after the case was dismissed.

Three days shy of the two-year mark since his alleged crime, Ruben Casas has been indicted by the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.

San Antonio Police Chief William McManus exposed some problems with the Bexar County criminal system that have been brewing for some time, other local police chiefs say.

The San Antonio Police Department has identified Jose Bernal Rodriguez as the officer who was shot on Sept. 5 on the Southwest Side.

'Communication is key'; Judges say they've been limited to what they can do in their courts.

Unusual. That’s how a criminology professor describes the string of shootings of San Antonio police officers.

The back and forth between Bexar County leaders continue after the recent string of police shootings in the last two weeks.

A Bexar County grand jury on Thursday indicted a San Antonio couple in connection with a fatal dog attack earlier this year.

A new law could help deter street takeovers from happening across Texas.

A San Antonio woman free on bond awaiting trial for capital murder was arrested early Friday for driving while intoxicated, Bexar County court records show.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales on Tuesday publicly took issue with KSAT’s reporting on workplace complaints within his agency, telling county commissioners that low pay is the primary catalyst behind a drove of recent resignations.

An investigator with the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office resigned this month amid allegations that he repeatedly kissed an intern and made unwanted advances toward her, personnel paperwork obtained by KSAT Investigates shows.

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A San Antonio man charged in his son’s death is being released on bond, according to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.

A San Antonio man assaulted by a co-worker at the Dominguez State Jail in 2020 said the Bexar County District Attorney’s decision to dismiss the charge against his attacker went against his wishes as a victim.

A former San Antonio Park Police officer has been indicted after investigators said he tampered with his own probation paperwork in order to help land employment with another law enforcement agency.

Public court proceedings, conversations with sources and case records reveal ongoing communication lapses and mishandling of evidence between the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office and the area’s two largest law enforcement agencies: the San Antonio Police Department and the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.

For two years, Hannah Westall's family was told there was no body camera footage existed of her March 2019 shooting. Homicide investigators and the Bexar County District Attorney's Office appeared to believe that, too. But now its sudden appearance has reopened the shooting investigation.

The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office has reopened its investigation of a 2019 San Antonio police shooting after body-camera footage of the fatal encounter surfaced this week.

SAN ANTONIO – A former Viva Tacoland bartender accused in 2018 of sexually assaulting two women after serving them drinks has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the case, court records and attorneys representing the man confirm. The sexual assault case against Dillonger Hackett was dismissed Oct. 2 due to insufficient evidence, records show. Viva Tacoland responds after bartender accused of sexually assaulting 2 customersOne of the women told investigators she had partial memories of Hackett showering in their hotel room and Hackett sexually assaulting her. Former Viva Tacoland bartender Dillonger Hackett has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing in a case where he was accused in 2018 of sexually assaulting two women after serving them drinks. Court records confirm Hackett was never indicted by a grand jury in the March 2018 case.