Judge orders Port Arthur Police to provide discovery to DA in Denisha Buckner case, quashes defense subpoenas

The presiding judge in the 252nd District Court on Tuesday resolved defense subpoenas seeking records and evidence from the Port Arthur Police Department in the death investigation of Denisha Buckner, ordering the agency to provide any collected materials to the district attorney for disclosure to defense counsel.

At a hearing that the court described as limited to subpoenas directed at Port Arthur police records, defense attorney James Adams (identified on the record as “Mister Adams”) said his team was missing several pieces of discovery — specifically footage from neighborhood “Ring” cameras near the scene, cell‑phone extraction data, fingerprint and DNA analyses and images or interviews the detective had collected. Adams told the court he was seeking, among other things, “other ring cameras that are in the area, any other videos that were collected … from the apartment complex.”

State prosecutor Mister Nichols and attorney Mister Stelley (representing the Port Arthur Police Department) told the court that most material had been provided in ordinary discovery and…