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A pandemic, backlog and retaining staff have been some of the problems that District Attorney Joe Gonzales had to face in his first term.

The Uvalde mayor Don McLaughlin is speaking about the lawsuit filed against the district attorney Christina Mitchell nearly one week ago.

Rebekah Arreguin, 55, is accused of threatening to harm attorney Nico LaHood and his family.

Erik Cantu is on life support and “literally fighting for his life every minute” after being shot by a San Antonio Police Officer in the parking lot of a McDonald’s on Oct. 2, according to the Cantu family’s lawyer.

The charges filed against a teenager who was shot by a now former-SAPD officer have been dismissed, according to Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney accused the CEO of a small company that makes software for election workers of illegally storing data on servers in China. The company denies the allegation.

A man and his 17-year-old son have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of rapper PnB Rock at a South Los Angeles restaurant.

The Office of the District Attorney reports that a jury in the 111th District Court...

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales weighed in after the leak of the United States Supreme Court’s draft ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade and assured the public he would continue to fight for women’s reproductive rights.

Find the latest, updated election results for the 2022 primary election in Texas on March 1, 2022.

In Texas, the primary elections happen March 1 and the general election will take place Nov. 2.

A man was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury Friday for murder and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

The developments in the criminal probe of the Trump Organization come as Donald Trump signals he may run against President Joe Biden in the 2024 election.

A simultaneous raid targeting illegal gambling resulted in the seizure of more than...

A 47-year-old mother is being charged with 39 criminal counts, including felony child abuse, sexual assault, and providing alcohol to minors, according to California authorities.

A police report documenting possible mismanagement of public funds in Escobares turned into an investigation that has bounced into the hands of different authorities.

A police report documenting possible mismanagement of public funds in Escobares turned into an investigation that has bounced into the hands of different authorities.

Alex Smith played with Taylor Henicke his last year in Washington and reveals to our Mackenzie Salmon that he thinks the journeyman QB has what it takes to a viable long-term solution at QB.

An abortion ban being proposed in the city of Edinburg is unlikely to be enforced, if passed, as the Hidalgo County District Attorney's Office stated it would not prosecute individuals who violate it.

A man has pleaded guilty in relation to the shooting death of another male in a north...

A 27-year-old San Antonio man was sentenced to 29 years in prison after pleading guilty to a 2011 murder and robbery, according to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.

A suspect has been indicted in the death of a man who was struck by a stray bullet as he drove along Loop 410 on the Northwest Side late last year.

The former teacher aide who made threats at Clark Middle School in January has been...

A new midterm report gives the public an overview of the work being done by District Attorney Joe Gonzales and his office.

SAN ANTONIO – Though former attorney Mark Benavides is serving an 80-year prison term for trading his legal services for sex, his case is still under review by the Bexar County District Attorney’s office. According to testimony during his trial, Benavides would trade his legal representation for sex from at least six clients. Howard is the head of Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales’ Conviction Integrity Unit. Ad“What this division does is it grades our paper to make sure that these convictions have integrity,” Gonzales said. “We’re going to do the right thing, even when no one is looking”, Gonzales said.

SAN ANTONIO – The number of court cases awaiting trial continues to grow at an alarming rate, and Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales is wrestling with ways to resolve the cases. It has been almost a year since a moratorium on jury service was ordered due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. RELATED: Sheriff making changes at the Bexar County jail to address court case backlogAbsent jury trials, Gonzales has pre-trial diversions and plea bargains among his options for resolving cases. Ad“It takes all parties,” Gonzales said. “It takes the willingness of defense attorneys, the willingness of the accused and the willingness of courts to work with us.”Another issue Gonzales said he must deal with is contacting victims.

SAN ANTONIO – Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales announced Friday that his office has added two new dashboards to its website. The DA’s office website now includes information on cases in the Central Trial Division that involve serious felonies and magistrate cases. “What I’ve done is created these dashboards in an effort to be more transparent to the public,” Gonzales said. “This is, for lack of a better way to put it, our progress report.”Gonzales is midway through his first term as District Attorney. Late last year, Gonzales created the first dashboards dealing with family violence cases and the cite-and-release program involving low-level drug offenses.

SAN ANTONIO – A Bexar County Grand Jury has indicted a woman who San Antonio police say drove her Mercedes Benz sedan head-on into an SUV, killing the driver, in May. Mariana Campos-Jimenez, now 21 years old, has been formally charged with intoxication manslaughter, the District Attorney’s office announced on Friday. The first count of the indictment states that the woman drove while she was intoxicated, causing the death of Gabriel Gallegos, 44, according to the DA’s office. The second count states that she drove the wrong way and failed to avoid hitting Gallegos’s SUV. The DA’s office said the case is pending in the 175th District Court.

Bexar County District Attorney looks back at first year in officePublished: January 3, 2020, 6:17 pmLooking back at his first year as the Bexar County District Attorney, Joe Gonzales said that after he won the 2018 election, he knew that he was facing a big job.

San Antonio – Looking back at his first year as the Bexar County District Attorney, Joe Gonzales said that after he won the 2018 election, he knew that he was facing a big job. “We knew that we were going to have to hit the ground running,” Gonzales said Friday. “One of my concerns was bringing criminal justice reform to Bexar County, and I believe that we’re doing that,” he said. Gonzales’ office records indicate that the number of cases is 1,166. Several high-profile criminal cases set to be tried in San Antonio in early 2020During his campaign, Gonzales promised that addressing family violence cases would be among his priorities.

Members of the group, "King's Angels," rallied outside the Bexar County Courthouse on Tuesday in hopes of getting the attention of the District Attorney's Office.

SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County District Attorney’s office on Wednesday announced it will not prosecute the aggravated perjury case against a Bexar County Precinct 2 deputy constable. Online court records show that Moreno was released from jail and that the District Attorney's Office rejected the charge. Christian Henricksen, the chief of litigation for the District Attorney's Office, said that based on the information in the warrant, prosecutors did not feel comfortable moving forward. "The District Attorney’s Office will reconsider prosecution if sufficient evidence is presented at a later date." According to KSAT records, Moreno and Barrientes-Vela have been involved in a series of tumultuous events within the past two years.