Update: On Jan. 24, Dodds agreed to a plea of deferred adjudication for unlawful restraint, a third-degree felony. He will be sentenced in March. Editor's note: This story includes references to rape.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man was given deferred adjudication after accepting a plea deal in July. In Texas, deferred adjudication is a type of probation that allows the person sentenced to keep the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A man at the center of an August 2018 shootout with police is serving a deferred adjudication sentence, according to court paperwork. Craig Anthony Carter, now 34, was taken into ...

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas — A former Bexar County Precinct 2 deputy constable has been sentenced to 24 months of deferred adjudication and will never be able to hold a Texas peace officer position again ...

A woman charged after making death threats against a neighbor who witnessed a fatal dog attack that killed an 81-year-old Air ...

A former Krum ISD band director has pleaded guilty to nine counts of indecency with a child and two counts of sexual assault of a child. Carol Turner, 61, was given deferred adjudication in exchange ...

A Nacogdoches woman received a decade of deferred adjudication in a fatal crash that killed a 2-year-old and injured six people in 2023. Miranda Lee Smallwood pleaded guilty to manslaughter July 5 in ...

According to Adam Schefter, a Dallas judge has sentenced WR Rashee Rice to five years probation and 30 days of jail time that can be served at any point during those five years for his role in a ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A grandfather, who was accused of leaving his grandkids at home without food or air conditioning on a hot day in Spring, was handed three years of deferred adjudication ...