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In early September, 2015, two Texas Christian University (TCU) university students - Michael Rea Tuana, a defensive lineman, and Andre Petties-Wilson, a wide receiver, were involved in a physical altercation. Allegedly, the two football players beat up fellow students (the exact number of how many students was not released), and stole beer. As of October, however, charges have been dropped, and the two are no longer facing criminal penalties.

In March of 2013, an interesting bill was introduced to the Texas legislature. House Bill (HB) 2918 would have made filming a police officer, or taking a police officer's photograph, a crime if done within 25 feet. Introduced by house republican Jason Villalba, the bill raised eyebrows across the state. In April 2015, Villalba announced that he was placing the bill on the backburner for the time being.

On the morning of March 17, 2015, police officers arrived at a Fort Worth home to investigate the shooting of a 73-year-old man and his 76-year-old wife. Their adult daughter found their two bodies in their bedroom at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, after going to their house to check on them. The daughter had placed a call to her parents the night before without receiving an answer. No one else lived in the house with the couple. It is still unknown whether previous instances of domestic violence occurred in the home.

After an anonymous tip to police on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 Jesse Mathew was found and arrested on the Bolivar Peninsula beach in Galveston County. Officials believe he may have been camping there for days before he was recognized and reported.

The Michael Morton Act, created to prevent wrongful convictions by district attorney, was named after an Austin man who was imprisoned for nearly 25 years after wrongful conviction of his wife's murder.This new implementation is also driving up evidence costs as prosecutors will have to hire more people and invest in better ways to go through evidence.