by thejudge | Jul 10, 2014 | In The News, News
Original Article by Valerie Wigglesworth, Dallas Morning News on June 10, 2014) Updated at 5:49 p.m.: District Judge John R. Roach Jr. sentenced Scott Garrett to life in prison without the possibility of parole after jurors convicted him of capital murder. Roach told...
by thejudge | Jun 6, 2014 | In The News, News
Original Article by Staff at McKinney Courier-Gazette A McKinney man has been sentenced to life in prison for continuous sexual abuse of his young step-daughter, announced Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis on Friday. Timothy James Taylor, 34, originally from...
by thejudge | Apr 24, 2013 | In The News, News
Original Article by Valerie Wigglesworth, Dallas Morning News on April 24, 2013 Warrants have been issued for the arrest of a Dallas man convicted in a McKinney home burglary who failed to show up for the end of his trial, where he was sentenced to 45 years in prison,...
by thejudge | Nov 1, 2012 | In The News, News
Original Article Published Nov 2008 by DFW Child (Updated May 20, 2013) By the time he was 7 years old, John Roach Jr., had already decisively declared that he would be a “lawyour” when he grew up. The youngster passed long summer days at the courthouse with his dad,...
by thejudge | Oct 18, 2012 | In The News, News
Original Article by AP on October 18, 2012 McKINNEY (AP) – A North Texas man has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for assisting in another man’s death from a drug overdose and trying to conceal the crime by setting fire to a home. Collin County prosecutors said...