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10 lakewood.advocatemag.com SEPTEMBER 2022 THE LAST STOP Bankruptcy Judge “Cooter” Hale has the final say on life-changing matters Interview by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by SYLVIA ELZAFON profile

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DO YOU THINK YOU’RE A DIFFICULT TEACHER?

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Hale grew up in St. Joseph, a border town in eastern Louisiana. The population was around 2,000 then. One day in the third grade, Hale missed school because he was ill. By afternoon he was feeling better, and his father — a cotton farmer — offered to take him to watch a criminal trial at the courthouse. The case had to do with a few hunters, some of them known to Hale’s father, who were robbed during a poker game at their hunting camp. There weren’t many trials happening in St. Joseph, the parish seat, so Hale agreed to go. “I thought, this is kind of amazing,” he says. “So I always sort of had that in the back of my mind, that this is something I would like to do.”

The bankruptcy code went into effect in 1979 when I started law school, and one of my teachers in my second year said, hey this is brand new. This is something you might be interested in. I took the class, and did real well in the class. At that time, and they still do this, where firms will come and interview kids in law school to come and work during the summer. The firm Strasburger & Price was one of just two Dallas firms that came to LSU to interview. And I took a summer job at Strasburger and got to work in its bankruptcy section. That would have been summer of ’81. Really liked it.

I think I’m really easy, to be honest with you. I try to be nice in class. We have failed some students. It just pains me to death to do that. But if you fail my class, you really deserve to fail. But no, I think I’m pretty easy. I have had 1,200 students.

WHAT ABOUT BANKRUPTCY LAW APPEALED TO YOU?

CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE NRA CASE?

It was very fun. Everybody knows everybody, or you’re kin to most people. But all the teachers know you really well. My fourth-grade teacher was also my father’s fourth-grade teacher. It’s that sort of thing, where you have a lot of continuity. It was fun. You have to go out of town to do anything, go to a movie, go out to eat. We have a lake in the town, so kids spend a lot of time on the lake, going swimming or skiing.

That was a real hard case. They’re assigned randomly. You know, you don’t get that because you want it. There are three of us here in Dallas, and it’s just assigned randomly. It’s a hard case, probably the hardest case I worked on. It was in the paper every single day. So what was going on every single day was in the paper. And so you knew everybody was watching what you did. I tell my people that work for me, we are actually paid to get this right every day. So that didn’t make me do it any different there, but there’s a lot of public scrutiny in that case, nationally. And the lawyers were very active. They would file things all the time. The trial over whether the filing was a valid filing or not, took place during our WebEx/ Zoom time. We had 200 people watching the trial on WebEx, and most hearings had 10-12 lawyers involved. It was a 12-day trial. It had 600 exhibits, 23 witnesses. It was very, very stressful, but I have really good law clerks and court staff working for me, and then the lawyers also did just a marvelous job on that part of it to make it very seamless. It took two weeks to come up with the ruling. That’s a lot of time for you to figure out what the right ruling is and write it up.

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He lived in St. Joseph until finishing high school and then attended Louisiana State University. Hale was no stranger to Baton Rouge or Tiger Stadium, where his parents had season tickets since 1966. After receiving his undergraduate degree, Hale continued at LSU for law school, graduating in 1982. His first job was clerking for James L. Dennis, then an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court and now a judge on the United States Fifth Circuit Court ofHaleAppeals.moved to Dallas and worked at Strasburger & Price. He and his wife, Claire, lived at The Village for a short time and then in 1984, moved to Lakewood, where they still reside. Their two sons — one now a nursing student and reservist for the Air Force, and the other a journalist in Indiana — attended Lakewood Elementary, J. L. Long Middle School and Woodrow Wilson High School. In 2002, Hale was appointed to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, and before he retired this spring. When the National Rifle Association tried to seek bankruptcy protection and reorganize in Texas, it was Hale’s decision to dismiss the case in 2021. He also presided over cases involving Tuesday Morning and Vitro, a glass manufacturer that produced windshields for GM cars and bottles for Skyy Vodka. Hale says he plans to continue as a professor at Southern Methodist University, where he has been teaching a course called “creditors’ rights” since 2009. Also, he occasionally does mediations for bankruptcy court. WHAT WAS IT LIKE GROWING UP IN SUCH A SMALL TOWN?

WHAT’S THE HARDEST PART ABOUT BEING A JUDGE?

Bankruptcy is often the last stop. Individuals have run out of money for some reason. And they’re about to lose their car or their house or their apartment. Trying to figure out a just solution to that. Sometimes we have to tell you, you have to leave your house. Those are the kinds of cases that kept me awake more than the NRA case or Vitro. I don’t know what they do after me.

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COYOTES & RODENTS & BOBCATS, OH MY!

A wildlife guide to East Dallas

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Spend any amount of time at White Rock Lake, and you’ll see wildlife. That’s just one place in East Dallas, but lurking in grassy patches and flying across the skies are animals and birds large and small that, if they could talk, would call our neighborhood home. At this point, we’ve all heard about the coyotes, the bobcats, the bald eagles — critters that can cause havoc and generate a lot of chatter on social media and during community meetings. But often overlooked are animals such as rabbits andCuriousrodents.about our non-human neighbors, we called Brett Johnson, an arborist and wildlife biologist with the City of Dallas. Here are a few highlights from our conversation. Story by RENEE UMSTED

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In short, Johnson says: “You spike. You go down. And then you start going back up.”

Historically, Dallas was part of the Blackland Prairie area, which wasn’t a deer habitat. Now, there’s a small deer population near the Trinity River Audubon Center.

SPEAKING OF BODIES OF WATER…

HERE’S WHERE BOBCATS COME INTO THE PICTURE. Most of us don’t see bobcats every day. But if one is spending a lot of time in Johnsonneighborhood,asaysthere’s a really good chance that somebody has a rodent problem.

When plowing and construction starts, predators including bobcats, coyotes, owls and hawks flock to the area because rodents are stirred up. That’ll last for a few weeks, until most of the vegetation is gone. Then, over a course of months to years, wildlife numbers decrease; it’s displacement.

ONE THING TO REMEMBER ABOUT INTERACTING WITH WILDLIFE “In the end, the best thing you can do is let them fend for themselves, and let them figure out what they’re doing,” Johnson says. “Supplemental feeding, or feeding them in general, in the long-term, does not help them. It makes them dependent on people. It can turn them into borderline pets, and that’s when we start seeing more nuisance issues.”

OH, DEER . Texas Parks and Wildlife estimates there are about 4 million whitetailed deer in the state, and they can be found in urban areas where deer overpopulation is a problem.Butthey aren’t common here.

“All it takes is one house in that neighborhood to be unintentionally feeding rodents, and you’ll have a bobcat that’ll hang around,” Johnson says.The scariest part is that in the bobcat cases he has seen, Johnson says the homeowners — most of the time — have no idea they have a rodent problem.

“It’s really only been the last 20 or 30 years that we started seeing more,” Johnson says. “You would have a periodic deer down along the creeks and along the river.”

WHAT ABOUT COYOTES? They feed on rodents, too, but they’re omnivores. They eat flora and fauna, as opposed to bobcats, which are exclusively meat-eaters. That’s why bobcats are more likely than coyotes to be seen sick because of too much rodenticide in their body, ingested by their rodent prey. Both coyotes and bobcats can injure humans and pets, but it’s rare. Though the Lake Highlands coyote attack is still fresh in the minds of Dallas residents, it really was an outlier, statistically speaking.

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THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF RODENTS IN THIS WORLD. Well, that’s a generalization. But for our purposes, this is true. There are species such as Norway rats and black rats that are commensal to humans; that means they enjoy living in human habitats. Then there are species such as cotton rats and deer mice, which live in natural areas.“Just because you have a prairie or a wildflower area across the street from you does not mean that’s where the rodents in your house are coming from,” Johnson says. “Because the ones that are typically found in your house don’t like living in those natural areas.”

White Rock Lake is attractive to wildlife, and one reason why is because of the water, especially during droughts. And it’s not just the lake. Almost all of the neighborhoods surrounding it are covered with lush lawns, which provide additional food and water to animals. Many homes have English ivy, which holds moisture, making it attractive to rodents and rabbits and thereby, maybe some bobcats.

Populations can begin increasing again around five years after construction ends. Landscaping is growing and maturing, making the area again desirable to wildlife.

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RING OF FIRE Station No. 17 is Lakewood’s fire station Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

REX BURNETT begins each shift at Dallas Fire-Rescue Station No. 17 with a three-mile run on the treadmill or around the block. Burnett, who’s been with the fire department for 37 years, is a driver engineer at the Lakewood Fire“BestStation.decision I made in my whole life, besides marrying my wife,” he Stationsays.No. 17, established in 1970 at the corner of Belmont Avenue and Skillman Street, re sponds to calls in an area roughly bounded by SMU Boulevard, the west side of White Rock Lake, Interstate 30 and Henderson Av enue. The firefighters’ life-saving acts are often publicized, but their personalities and mundane re sponsibilities at the station aren’t.

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Perhaps it’s time to get to know a few of the people who help protect EastPeopleDallas.like Burnett, for exam ple, who’s been at the Lakewood Fire Station for eight years. After decades on the job, he knows his way around the city. It’s a slower station compared to others, Burnett says. The Lakewood firefighters typically respond to seven to 10 calls in a 24-hour shift, but when Bur nett was working at a station in Deep Ellum, 30 runs in a shift wasEightnormal.firefighters are on duty during the day. They start with breakfast, and then they inspect and clean the apparatuses. After ensuring their equipment is ready, they fill their time between calls with a variety of activities.

Just as family members have chores around the house, the Lakewood firefighters have a different assignment each day — washing windows, cleaning the bathroom or sanitizing the kitch en, for example. After a 24-hour shift, they get 48 hours off.

“I put a little effort into it and make it a little better than what everybody else cooks,” says Robinson, who became a firefighter to have a purposeful career and make a difference in the world. “You can only have spaghetti and lasagna, hamburgers so many times.”

Spending so much time together, whether it’s hanging out around the station or working together to save lives, means the firefighters have created strong bonds.

“This is our family for a third of our life, so we get to hang out with them for 24 hours,” says Clay Cook, who has been a firefighter for 23 years, including four years at the Lakewood station. “It’s just family here, extended family.”

The firefighters at Station No. 17 have also formed a deep connection to our neighborhood. On their logo, printed on their T-shirts and the back of the fire engine, there’s a drawing of the Lakewood Theater tower.

Aside from tidying up the space, the firefighters use down time to study for promotions or do job-related exercises, such as elevator training, to prepare for dif ferent situations.

Stephen Robinson, who has been at the Lakewood station for 10 of his 18 years on the job, cooks for the group. He shops for groceries, too, but all firefighters split the bill. They typically have themed-meal days, like Taco Tuesday and Fish Friday, and they eat together.

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“Our doors are open anytime,” Burnett says. “Kids come by. They look at the apparatuses. We basically give

Left: Driver engineer Rex Burnett has spent nearly 40 years as a firefighter, eight of them at the Lakewood Fire Station.

firefighters say they’re thankful for the kindness of the neighborhood. They love it when people stop by to talk or drop off treats. One resident even donated a set of lounge chairs for the station’s living“Thisroom.isagreat neighborhood,” Burnett says. “The people really treat us good, treat us right.”

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He was at Flora Street Cafe when it closed, and then took a two-year break to prepare for his next restau rant.Demers says he wasn’t discouraged after On the Lamb closed because he learned from his mistakes. It provided him firsthand experience of what it would take to own and operate his own

For about five years after the restau rant closed, Demers was a chef at restaurants such as Local Traveler at Gaston-Garland-Grand, Beverley’s and Flora Street Cafe.

SEPTEMBER 2022 lakewood.advocatemag.com 27 WHEN HE WAS 15, Ross Demers worked as a dishwasher at Spring Creek Barbecue. The Richardson native nev er planned to start a career in the restaurant industry, but that’s what happened.Demers didn’t finish high school, and didn’t go to college. But by the time he was 18, Demers had moved to Los Angeles to attend the Califor nia School of Culinary Arts. Then he went to Vail, Colorado, and worked at a hotel restaurant for about 1.5 years.

Demers wanted a location that wasn’t “oversaturated.” In Old East Dallas, the restaurant would either be an instant success or failure, he predicted, and was looking for a chal lenge, he says. Because he didn’t have many investors, he was paying close attention to rent prices, too.

For the name, Demers chose Cry Wolf. He says it’s a tribute to his moth er, who often told him the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf . It opened

“I had no desire to come back to Dal las,” Demers says. “I was really enjoying myself in Vail. Just, things happened. Just kind of got broke and had to come home.”Thejob opened doors and allowed him to take positions at his pick of Dal las restaurants. That lasted seven years.

At some point, he filled out an ap plication online, and in 2008, he was offered a job as a cook at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek.

“Afterrestaurant.youhave one and have com plete freedom to do whatever you want, you will never be happy again working for someone else,” he says.

In 2015, at age 30, Demers opened his first restaurant, On the Lamb. It was the ultimate goal for him since he started out in the industry; not doing so would be a waste of time and money, he says. On the Lamb was located in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood Demers says he thought would become “the next foodThehub.”place closed after 11 months. “Owning a restaurant is one thing,” Demers says. “Owning a restaurant in an area where you can get any drug you want when you’re 30 years old — that was just a total nightmare. Seven years ago, I wanted to open that up, be the coolest person in the world and get a James Beard Award. Things are a lot different these days. But that was my ultimate goal in Deep Ellum.”

The menu at Cry Wolf changes often. Demers keeps in close com munication with purveyors to find out what’s fresh, be it fish or game birds. Along with a few others at the restaurant, he crafts the menu around ingredients. Demers says he doesn’t offer many hoofed ani mals like beef or pork because he doesn’t particularly care for them, and there are plenty of other places in Dallas serving them.

An average meal at Cry Wolf costs about $60 per person. Demers says he doesn’t think that’s too expen sive, when the quality of ingredients is factored in. “I don’t need any damn awards,” he says. “And as long as people get the restaurant, I’m as happy as pie.”

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There are 20 seats in the main dining room and 12 at the bar. De mers did a lot of the work himself inside — the painting, the back bar, the ceiling, the floors, the bath rooms. He says people compare the interior to a Laurel Canyon bungalow. However, at the time of the interview, he was working on a collage of the one-star reviews diners have given and planned to display the art at the restaurant. They’re eventually going to have a speakeasy in the back, but the top priority now is setting up the patio for when the weather is cooler. It will be its own concept with its own menu, a smaller list of “casual” food, frozen drinks and cocktails.

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Demers describes the style of food at the restaurant as “spontaneous,” using a classic French technique with a California-North African influence. Some dishes resemble Asian cuisine, and others resemble Moroccan. As far as ingredients, fish and mushrooms regularly make an“Iappearance.stillcome in and I’ll change four things on the menu because my brain doesn’t stop — ever,” he says. “We’ll reprint at least one thing every single day.”

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Their schedule includes weekly three-hour training sessions and monthly competitions.

After more than a year of training, Tulip entered her first agility competition.“Tulipwasquite scared of people who were in the ring,” Albright says. “In the beginning, I was not really good at memorizing my course, and I’ve gotten a lot better. When mistakes are made, it’s usually the human’s fault, not the dog’s.”

Dogs compete in groups based on their jump heights, measured from paws to the top of their shoulders. Tulip jumps 8 inches, while other larger dogs can clear 2 feet off the ground.

“She’s 7 pounds and a little love bug,” Albright says. They just moved into the “Excellent” competitive category after a memorable contest in Magnolia, Texas.

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“I wasn’t thinking about moving up,” Albright says. “You can’t make any errors when you get up to that level.”

These neighborhood pets are champions of cuteness and competition

Photography by JESSICA TURNER & SHELBY TAUBER

They started taking lessons at a Rowlett outdoor facility in January 2021. Albright readjusted how she trained with Tulip to accommodate the dog’s timidness.

A t home, her name is Tulip, but on the big stage she is Pure Delights Kaleidoscope Dream.

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“It’s a great bonding for trainer and dog, owner and dog. It’s just really, really a fun sport,” Albright says.

Michele Albright bought shy, reserved Tulip, a Biewer terrier, to become a competitor. Albright wasn’t new to agility competitions — she had a Yorkie before taking a break from competition.

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The Jack Russell works with Pet Partners, an internationally recognized animal therapy group. Year-round, Rosie visits patients to provide stress relief in nursing homes and hospice care, as well as child abuse centers, schools and universities.“It’swhatI like to call a nice distraction, especially if we’re in a hospital setting, and we’re working with patients who might need an extra lift or just a distraction from their days,” Atkinson says.

in barn hunt, a competition that tests a dog’s natural hunting senses and skills to find a rat along a tricky course.

E ver seen a quadruple-threat dog? Run for the Roses Rosie is a barn hunt champion, therapy dog, model and soon-to-be movie star.

Recently, Rosie was cast in a short film as the dog of the main character, who lives in a nursing home. This isn’t the first time Rosie has been on set — she and her siblings have been models for greeting cards.

“She is a hunter extraordinaire,” Atkinson says. Barn hunt, like many dog competitions, is a sport that highlights the relationship between the instructor and the dog.

“She’s a great dog. I love her to death,” she says. “I’m thrilled that I got the chance to adopt her.”

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“You need to have that connection with your dog and be able to read their signals and their indications,” Atkinson says. “It’s the same with therapy: I have to train my own animals, so they’re responding to me and looking to me for guidance or backup. It’s creating a bond.”

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Owned and trained by Carrie Atkinson, Rosie has been competing since 2020. A rescue Jack Russell terrier, Rosie earned a senior title FOR THE ROSES ROSIE by NATALIE MURPHY

“It’s a team sport, but I’m letting my dog take the lead on everything, letting my dog do the hunting. I’ll direct them some, but they get to use their instincts of smell,” Atkinson says. Rosie hunts the rats during trials with ease, but it’s up to Atkinson to know to make the call that Rosie has found her prey.“That’s one of our mottos in our training with barn hunt is trust your dog,” Atkinson says. “You know if your dog’s telling you there’s a rat there, go ahead and call the rat, and if it’s not and you don’t get a qualifying run, it’s OK. You know, you had fun and you left with the best dog in the world.”Thislevel of communication between dog and trainer is necessary for successful competition runs.

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ou are coming home with me, and I’m going to make you brave,” Betsie Bolger said to her shy rescue, Coco, on their firstShemeeting.enrolled Coco in agility classes to bring Coco out of her shell, but it quickly became a passion for both. Then Bolger started looking for a second dog to compete alongside Coco. She stumbled upon a Facebook post for Teddy, returned by previous owners for having too much energy.

That’s just what Bolger was looking“Teddyfor.was following her around over obstacles in the backyard, so I was like, ‘Let’s try him with some lessons, too,’ and he seemed to enjoy it,” sheCocosays.has been competing in agility since 2018 and Teddy since 2019. Their show names are Coco Quickly and Steady Teddy.Bolger never expected the dogs to become the #AgilityTwins.“I’mproudof the fact that they run for the joy of it. That is our mantra,” Bolger says.

Bolger describes Coco as “the embodiment of joy” and Teddy as “chill and happy-golucky” with smiles on their faces as they run the course.

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The two dogs have won many titles, including Agility Dog Champion, Master’s Agility Champion, Champion Speedstakes and Novice Trick Dog.

“This was the advice given COCO & TEDDY Story by NATALIE MURPHY

38 lakewood.advocatemag.com SEPTEMBER 2022 to me at my first trial, and it was the best advice ever: Make sure your dogs keep having fun. Because the whole point of this sport is to have fun with your dog,” Bolger says. Outside of competitions, Coco and Teddy live normal pet lives. In their free time, they like to lie around, chew on the occasional house object and play with siblings, one of which is training to be Bolger’s next agility

“Everydog.time you step to the line with your dog is a privilege and a gift from the universe,” Bolger says. “And it will behoove Coco Quickly, left, and Steady Teddy, right, are the #AgilityTwins who compete just for the fun of it.

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Defending Candy ‘Silicone Prairie’ death thrust rookie attorney Robert Udashen into the spotlight

The Candy case, which captured the public interest 40 years ago (the book Evidence of Love and its madefor-TV movie came out in the ’80s), is still captivating audiences. Hulu’s five-part series Candy starring Jessica Biel is available now. HBO’s Love and Death , due for a fall 2022 release, is based on Texas Monthly ’s “Love and Death in Silicone Prairie.” (Silicone Prairie refers to the Lake Highlands and Richardson corridor where large technology corporations such as Texas Instruments are located.)

Interview by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB

obert Udashen was 27 in 1980 when he was called in by the partners at Crowder and Mattox law firm to strategize one of the most highprofile and legally intriguing defense cases in Texas history.

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Alongside the late Don Crowder and associate Elaine Carpenter, Udashen successfully argued self defense for Candy Montgomery, the wife of a Texas Instruments engineer who axed her lover’s wife Betty Gore to death with a reported 41 blows. Crowder is widely recognized in TV shows as Candy’s attorney, but he had never practiced criminal law prior to the Montgomery case. Much of the footwork fell to Udashen, the firm’s only criminal law specialist. Today the Udashen Anton firm near Park Lane and Central Expressway boasts a roster of respected criminal defense attorneys, and Udashen — after a long career that included decades of teaching at Southern Methodist University — has semiretired to North Carolina.

Udashen has consulted on both shows and has appeared in episodes of Snapped and People Magazine Investigates Udashen, the surviving member of the defense team, speaks with the Advocate from his house in Asheville. After all these years, why is everyone so engrossed in the Candy case? It’s a really interesting story. You’ve got an affair. An ax murderer, which is unusual. It’s involving two women, which is unusual. So there’s the makings of a good movie or TV show

SEPTEMBER 2022 lakewood.advocatemag.com 41 in there. Why it’s all coming back right now, I don’t know. What did Hulu’s Candy get right and wrong? There are a lot of things, particularly around the trial, that are not quite accurate. For the series, they had to condense the trial. But it gives you a misleading impression of what happened at the trial. They have things occurring in the trial that didn’t really occur the way they were depicting it. Some of that is just artistic license. And they’re condensing everything all together. But being someone who actually participated in it, I don’t like to see it portrayed inaccurately. What specific things most bothered you? That’s hard to narrow down. Some of the things — with Don Crowder, the lead lawyer, for example. He kind of came off as a caricature. Don really did a fabulous job at trial. To me, the way he was portrayed didn’t really do that justice. They had him doing a lot of the things I actually did. But, at the time, I had been a lawyer for about three years. Don was a senior partner at the firm (Crowder and Mattox), but this was his first criminal defense case. The part in the show where they have Don talking to Candy about what happened that day, that was actually me. I was really involved in the strategy part. How did the case come to your firm? Don knew Candy from church. They both went to the Methodist church. When Candy first goes to talk to the police, before we’ve been hired, she mentions to Don that the police want to talk to her. He says “you don’t have anything to worry about” so she talks to the police. Then they wanted to talk to her a few days later. When it was clearer that they were looking at her as a suspect, Don told her to come in and see me because I did criminal law. Don wasn’t a criminal defense lawyer. He did civil law. Did you know how big this case was going to be when they called you in? This was 1980, there’s no social media, no Facebook. But what you did have is two daily newspapers, Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald , and then the Fort Worth, Plano, McKinney newspapers, all the local TV stations and they all are competing for stories. So there was something on TV or radio or newspaper every day for months. Don got involved not only because he is the senior partner, but also he liked all the publicity. Candy had already talked to the police twice when I came on. And by then I knew it was gonna be big, but I didn’t know how big it would become over the next few months. I remember waking up on one morning seeing this headline on the front page of the Dallas Times Herald : “Lawyer dares police to arrest ax murderer.” I was kind of enjoying talking to press, but I do remember thinking I didn’t really mean to do that. I decided I needed to become a little more careful when choosing my words. Was the judge (Tom Ryan) as biased as portrayed in Candy , and was Don really arrested for contempt? Don was held in contempt twice. It didn’t really happen the way it was depicted in the show. By the time the trial rolled around, we were under a gag order not to talk to the press. But Don, right when the trial started, was standing outside the courthouse talking to the press. So Judge Ryan held him in contempt for that. Then there was an incident that occurred during the trial where Don and Judge Ryan got sideways with each other and he held him in contempt again and threw him in jail at the end of the day, which was something not allowed by Texas law. So I had to go to the Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin to get him out of jail.

Seems like judge Ryan and others were working against you — was that so? We had to deal with a lot. For example, once they got a warrant for Candy, I negotiated an agreement with the district attorneys, and I drove her up to McKinney. I was gonna take her to the sheriff’s office and they weren’t supposed to notify the press, because we were just trying not to have a bunch of cameras and reporters there. But there’s all these people. They completely violated their agreement. I turned her in and I made arrangements to have a bondsman post the bond before I ever drove Candy up there. The sheriff wouldn’t take the bond and wouldn’t let her out. Then we had a hearing on that, and we finally got herAfterout.we get her out, just a matter of two days later, Judge Ryan orchestrates this hearing, which was supposed to be about the gag order. I took Candy up there and the judge does impose a gag order, but then he launches into a hearing on whether Candy’s bond was sufficient. It was clear that the judge, DA and sheriff are all prepared for this hearing. No one bothered to tell me about it. Then they throw Candy in jail again. And then I’m under a gag order and I can’t go talk to the press. Things like that. The whole time we’re working on the case. How much did the makers of the Hulu show consult you? I was contacted really early on by writers and producers who I met by Zoom. The writers and I spent a number of hours talking while they were writing the script. And initially this show was supposed to star Elisabeth Moss. So I talked to her on a Zoom call. And then she dropped out. She has so many things going on. I never actually spoke to Jessica Biel. How about the HBO show? I worked with HBO for months. They’re going to do a much more

I it was self defense... the jury made the absolutedecision.”right

42 lakewood.advocatemag.com SEPTEMBER 2022 detailed look at the trial, than Candy did. I’ve talked to all the actors involved in the HBO series, and I was there when they were filming scenes and helping try to make the trial scenes as accurate as possible. And maybe there’s always some artistic license involved in this, but HBO did want to be as accurate as possible. And that’s what my role was during the filming, to try to make sure they were. When Candy told you the whole story, were you surprised, or what were you thinking? I won’t say I’m surprised at that point. By then I knew she had been there, and I knew that the police had at least a fingerprint. I mean certain things tied her to the scene. But I didn’t really know exactly what happened. And so when she came out and finally told us what happened, to me it was clear that it was self defense. Now we just needed to document and put the defense together. Were you thinking insanity defense at first? I brought in two psychiatrists. I did want the psychiatrists to look into any kind of mental issue. That was to me just part of documenting what happened. I wanted the doctors to see if they could explain the overkill, because that was always going to be a big problem here. We could see the self defense and how it got started based on what Candy said. But there’s so many blows that I thought by the time we got to trial we’re gonna need to be able to explain why it happened. How did Candy’s case affect the trajectory of your career?

really do think

I think

Robert Udashen faces the press in 1980.courtesyPhotosof Fort Star-TelegramWorth TexasUniversityCollection,ofatArlingtonLibraries.

At that point, it was clearly the biggest case I’d ever been in. And it was a great learning experience. I did so many different things in that trial. Most young lawyers never get a chance to do it. I think it put me on a path to be a really successful criminal defense lawyer. I used to, particularly at SMU when I was teaching there, give talks on the many legal issues that came up working on that case that were just fascinating and a great learning experience. So it did kind of propel my career. I was prepared to handle lots of big cases after it. But at the time, I was so young, it was really learning by fire. How does a lawyer working on these gruesome cases balance that out emotionally in your life? I don’t have a specific routine, but it could be really crushing. Particularly in something like Candy. Another case that comes to mind is Lisa Diaz, which was capital murder trial where she was accused of killing her two children. When I get cases like these, particularly when I believe the people were really innocent, it’s really stressful. Their lives are at stake and I don’t want to do anything wrong to cause an innocent person to end up in prison.So whenever I can travel, I do. Whenever I finished up a big trial, my wife and I would go take a vacation somewhere to get away and clear my mind. Have you been in touch with Candy? I have not talked to her in a long time, and she moved shortly after trial. It was just impossible for her to stay in the area. She couldn’t go to the grocery store without people saying something negative to her. The book Evidence of Love came out a few years after the trial, and Candy did cooperate with that book, and I think she was sorry she did. So did Don Crowder and I. But then after that. They made a movie with Barbara Hershey. Candy would not cooperate with that, and there’s been a bunch of shows since then Candy would not cooperate in. What do people ask you about the most? People want to know where Candy is and if I really think it was self defense, and I really do think it was self defense. I really believe that for these reasons. I mean, I think the jury made the absolute right decision. Even though there was a lot of hostility to that decision. Yeah, I think we got it right.

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The group operated without bylaws until 2009. Under the rules, the park board member was given power to appoint officers, and task force members were selected by either the park board member or the district director on the park department staff. Also, the park board member could veto any bylaw amendments.

“If there had been an advisory committee before that, they would have said, that’s a ridiculous idea — find some other place,” Jung says. Four years later, Jung wrote another letter. This time it was to Frank Wise, who was director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department. Jung suggested monthly meetings with representatives of neighborhood associations surrounding the park, and Wise agreed with the idea, Jung says. But again, nothing happened.

46 lakewood.advocatemag.com SEPTEMBER 2022 and died; first responders were unable to reach the person because of the crowds and traffic congesting the streets.

Throughout the ’90s, several projects were coming together at the lake — a master plan, a shoreline tree enhancement plan and a dredging feasibility study among them.

Those bylaws lasted a few years. Then in 2012, there was a controversy involving the Dallas Arboretum, Winfrey Point and a parking lot. The task force wasn’t briefed on anyWhatplans.resulted was “sort of an insurrection,” Jung says. New bylaws were adopted in 2013, changing the structure of the task force. It became a collective of private civic organizations that continued to interact with the City but was not dependent on the City for its existence. Also, the task force began electing its own officers, and individuals who were not specifically representing an organization could

“We hear the concerns from the community, and those concerns are shared with the City,” says Rader, who at one point was both president of the task force and the District 9 park board member.

The White Rock Lake Task Force usually meets monthly at Winfrey Point to discuss crime, events and other issues at the park.

In the letter, Jung mentioned a citizen advisory committee to help manage White Rock Lake Park. Nothing came of it.

It’s hard to be certain without documentation, but Jung says the White Rock Lake Task Force began meeting in 1997.Mary Poss, who was the District 9 City Council member at the time, and Gary Griffith, then District 9 Dallas Park and Recreation Board member, convened the meetings. In all, around 10-20 people met at a conference room space near the Doran Circle building to discuss matters surrounding White Rock Lake Park. Several people involved in the early years, including Jung, who represented the White Rock Neighborhood Association, and wildlife expert Becky Rader, are still members.

“And each one of those had a citizen advisory committee, which tended to have a lot of overlap in the membership,” Jung says. “So that was kind of the lead up to establishing the task force as a group that would meet periodically without being associated with some specific project.”

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48 lakewood.advocatemag.com SEPTEMBER 2022 U valde, Texas. Scene of yet another school immediatewhatcommunityhesitateStefanieUrbansheandforshopsofDianaandwould200creatingDallasoutorganizationWhenshooting.UvaldeQuiltsofGracesentwordofanimmediateneed,Eastneighborsansweredthecall,anddeliveringmorethanquiltsin13days,quiltsthatultimatelycomfortchildrenothersaffectedbythetragedy.Afewdaysaftertheshooting,Bonnet,directorofQuiltsGrace,begancallingquilt/fabricthroughoutTexas,askingdonationsofcompletedquiltssewingsupplies.Oneofthosecalledwasourneighborhood’sSpoolsSewingLounge.OwnerOrozcosaysshedidn’ttovolunteerherteam’sskills.“I’mastrongbelieverthatyourisonlyasgoodasyouputintoit.Soitwasan‘yes’fromus.Weareallquilters,andknowingwecouldhelpsomeoneinthequiltingcommunityinagreattimeofneedwasjustano-brainerforus,”Orozcosays.Orozcousedsocialmediaandtheshop’swebsitetospreadthewordtocustomersandquiltguildsinDallas,GarlandandCedarHill.Thoseguilds,inturn,reachedouttootherguilds.MindfulofUvalde’simmediateneedforquilts,theyagreedtoa

Orozco says those two weeks were busy and a bit chaotic.

Lakewood Hills neighbor Deb Crow was one of the volunteers.

“Everyone was working on some sort of quilt. It was nonstop, and many stayed after hours to continue the work,” she says.

Quilting for comfort

It became apparent the work was therapeutic for the volunteers. “Some would come in to talk and cry with us and share their frustration. I think it helped for them to have a place to go to just talk about the tragedy,” she says.

tight goal: 50 quilts and one box of supplies in 13 days. Many broke out their quilting tools at home; others set up in the sewing rooms at Urban Spools.

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD By PATTI VINSON

Neighbors made 251 quilts for Uvalde I

“I can’t begin to feel the pain that this community has gone through, and I wanted to help in any way I could. I didn’t consider this work; it was a labor of love and a chance to reach out with a hug for those inStevepain.”Rossiter is another neighbor who pitched in, creating a Lone Stardesign quilt in red, green, gray and blue.“Ithought it would bring some joy to someone during this time,” Rossiter says. If you’ve never made a quilt, the process is labor-intensive. A quilt consists of three layers: top, batting and backing. After choosing a pattern/design and cutting fabric, the top is stitched together one patchwork piece at a time. The quilter then creates a “sandwich” of the three layers, adds quilt stitches to hold the layers together and, finally, binds the edges. So it’s no small feat the volunteers met their goal of 50 quilts in five days. They ultimately produced 251 handmade quilts, 36 quilts “in progress” (those needing batting, quilting and binding) and three large boxes of fabric and thread.

reachandaconsiderdidn’tthiswork;itwaslaborofloveachancetooutwithahugforthoseinpain.”

“The North Texas quilting community is incredible and really stepped in to help,” Orozco says. “A

“It was difficult for all three of us,” she says. “There were other children there grieving for their friends. It really made an impact on us.”

Top: Memorials were set up outside Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, to honor the students and teachers who were Middle:killed.Patti Kondikoff teaches David Orozco how to properly cut fabric for a quilt.

After delivering the quilts, Orozco and her children stopped by Robb Elementary, visiting each child’s memorial.

For information about helping Quilts of Grace, contact Diana Bonnet at dbonnet113@gmail.com.

Bonnet said many recipients would “hold on tight to the quilt and some wrap up in it, followed by hugs of gratitude.”

The donated quilts were given to the affected families, various long-term counseling services, Robb Elementary staff, funeral home staff, and EMS and fire department/first responders.

told us how almost every person in the town was impacted in some way or another by the tragedy, including her own husband,” says Orozco, who presented Bonnet with a quilt of her own from the Dallas quilting community.“Itwasvery emotional,” Orozco says. “She said it wasn’t until she got it that she realized she, too, was going to need time to heal.”

PATTI VINSON is a guest writer who has lived in East Dallas for more than 20 years. She’s written for the Advocate and Real Simple magazine

SEPTEMBER 2022 lakewood.advocatemag.com 49 few expressed that it helped them feel like they could do something to help with the grief they felt for the Uvalde community rather than just watch helplessly at all the news that was flowing out from theWithtragedy.”somuch to donate, shipping was out of the question. So Orozco and her two children, ages 18 and 14, loaded a pickup truck with the quilts and supplies and headed to Uvalde to hand-deliver donations to“DianaBonnet.

Bottom: David Orozco’s finished quilt was donated to a resident of PhotographyUvalde.courtesy of Stefanie Orozco.

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In addition, pronouns are altered and “sister” is made plural. These intentional edits resulted in making a story that was initially about Mary, the sister of Lazarus, into a story about two sisters, Mary and Martha. These edits hid the fact that Mary made the Messianic Proclamation in John 12, not Martha — who then disappears from the gospel story. Mary is present at the cross and witnesses the resurrection.Schrader’sdiscovery exposes that John 11 and 12 is a story about Lazarus’ sister, Mary Magdalene, who is from Bethany.

“Magdala,” a non-existent city in the first century, is not where Mary was from. Rather the Aramaic word “Magdala” is a title given to Mary meaningSchrader’s“Tower.”work was published in the Harvard Theological Review and confirmed by the translation committee of the Greek New Testament.

Being transparent

AMY W. MOORE, a pastor in the Presbyterian Church, serves the Grace Presbytery Social Justice Task Force and is a regular contrib utor to the Advocate’s Worship Column. To support the Worship Column, email sales@ advocatemag.com

By AMY MOORE

I’ve just learned about something that has been hidden for more than 2,000 years. In as much as what has been hidden comes from the Christian New Testament, its message is relevant to faithful living regardless of your tradition. New Testament scholar Elizabeth Schrader discovered something that had been hidden in the Gospel of John’s most ancient historical writing. Known as Papyrus66, circa 200 CE, the writing is housed in a library in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland. Access to this original papyrus required travel, academic credentials, time and money. Only recently has digitization made these ancient manuscripts more widely accessible — opening a new world of transparency! With the ability to examine P66 by computer and magnify the text, Schrader discovered alterations scratched into the letters. The original text did not have the name Martha. Throughout John 11 and 12, where the name Martha appears, an ancient editor had changed what was originally “Mary.”

Transparent backpacks will not solve all the safety concerns in school, but I got to wondering how being transparent might impact community?

S chool is back in session, this year with a new policy for transparent backpacks. The transparency requirement, established with community input, prevents items from being hidden that could risk putting students and staff in harm’sTransparencyway. is critical to honesty, accountability and establishing trust.

Whether or not you believe in Jesus as the Messiah, this is a story about a woman of faith that was kept hidden behind the name Martha by someone in the fourth century who edited the oldest text of John’s gospel. What were they trying to hide to affect the centuries to follow? What harm has been created by a lack of transparency?

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Christian history scholar Diana Butler Bass wonders what Christianity would look like today if these 2,000 years were informed by “Mary, you are the Tower, and by this Tower we shall stand” and not only “Peter, you are the Rock and upon this Rock I will build my church”? What would our faith lives look like if “Mary the Tower” was the story? How might our homes, families, neighborhoods be different if we really knew one another’s story? How can transparency reduce our risk of harm?

Ancient texts reveal the Mary as ‘the Tower’

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