Working in Dallas’ Frank Crowley Courts Building familiarizes lawyers with the Texas Penal Code and the laws of unintended consequences. That’s why last week a prosecutor and a couple of defense attorneys stood bemused as a county worker tried to coax life out of a battered Dell computer in a district attorneys’ workroom located outside a felony court.
What caused the computer, which tracks cases and records of thousands of defendants in Dallas County, to crash? Blame it on the “Dallas County unplugged” memo — an e-mail sent to all county employees asking them to curb their energy use by shutting off their computers at night, among other things.
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