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21 Nov 11:52 pm
... time for first offenders on less-than-a-gram drug charges. About 1,200 such inmates are currently incarcerated in Harris County up to six
months as a "condition" of probation, though in most other counties such offenders wouldn't be ... instead of misdemeanor paraphernalia charges. Other counties may pursue a
paraphernalia charge when an offender is found with a crack pipe - in Harris those are treated as state jail felonies and contribute
significantly to clogging the jail and court dockets. The ...
20 Nov 6:36 am
Tax Policy Blog has a handy summary of how Harry Reidcare will allegedly be financed. Peter Pappas has a nice...
19 Nov 6:18 am
As part of his 2000+ page nightmare of a "health care" bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would partially decouple...
18 Oct, 2007 9:02 pm
... against Google is one such action against a Fish & Richardson client for alleged infringement of a patent Harris sold. That was the
beginning of the counterclaim Fish & Richardson filed this week against Scott Harris after Illinois ... he was proposing a self-interested
transaction with a firm client. . . . In return [for a license], the client granted Mr. Harris stock options and a royalty to be applied to the
sales of products incorporating the technology. The agreement also required the ...
5 May, 2008 11:53 pm
... to mention the Chuck-Rosenthal era prosecutorial leadership that's spearheaded policies that overuse the jail. The Houston Chronicle reports that Harris County may send 1,100 more prisoners to a private facility in Louisiana, joining 600 already housed in ... sheriff's department is asking Commissioners
Court for permission to send another 1,130 more inmates to Louisiana facilities. Harris County already incarcerates 600 inmates at a private
detention center in northeast Louisiana at a cost of $9 ...
12 Jul, 2007 5:01 pm
... might not be what most Duke parents expect when they encounter the requirement in the first-year orientation packet. Harris has explained
that, as a writing program administrator, his job is to function as "an activist reformer in the university." In a ... queer, how race impacts queer identity, the commodification of
queerness, and the ways in which queerness complicates the idea of homophobia." Harris is an associate professor; from 2000-2005, he served on
the Arts and Sciences Course Committee.
2 Apr, 2008 9:02 am
... vendor. Also in line with JPI's findings, Murphy writes, a large proportion of the Harris County Jail population are mentally ill or
homeless, who require both more services ... , unnecessary incarceration driving Texas jail overcrowding Bail blunders boost bulging Harris
jail population Extra bail conditions: When tough on crime means tough on taxpayers ... among big Texas counties TPPF: Counties must act to prevent overincarceration Harris County officials wrongly think they'll build their way out ...
6 Apr, 2008 7:23 am
... bonds has all but disappeared in low-grade felony cases. Most Harris County district court judges say they would consider them for the
right ... bonds. Again from Tolson: The consequences are two-fold. Fewer personal bonds contributes to the Harris County Jail being filled
beyond capacity, requiring local taxpayers to spend $9 ... unnecessary incarceration driving Texas jail overcrowding Bail blunders boost bulging Harris jail population Extra bail conditions: When tough on crime means tough on taxpayers ...
9 Jul, 2008 5:38 pm
... overtime costs includes a graphic breaking down the largest sources of overtime costs - the Houston Police Department and the Harris County
Sheriff, which together accounted for more than half of all government overtime expenses by Harris County ... about diversion Pretrial
detention, unnecessary incarceration driving Texas jail overcrowding Bail blunders boost bulging Harris jail population Extra bail conditions:
When tough on crime means tough on taxpayers Should county government subsidize bail ...
26 Jan 12:24 am
... immediate option. As has been discussed on Grits many times (see below), Harris County's main jail overcrowding problem stems from radical
increases pretrial ... they're focused on categories of offenders - pretrial detainees and the mentally ill - where Harris County's "tuff on
crime" tactics have been needlessly tough on taxpayers ... improvement in public safety. Related Grits posts: Bail blunders boost bulging Harris jail population Extra bail conditions: When tough on crime means tough on taxpayers ...
13 Jul, 2007 1:12 am
... Let's hear it for fiscal accountability! The Chronicle editorial board today criticized the Sheriff's decision to send Harris jail inmates
hundreds of miles away to a private prison in northern Louisiana at a cost of $4 million for the ... programs for nonviolent offenders and new county facilities would provide a
permanent solution. I've been harping on the problem of Harris judges sentencing felony defendants to county jail as a condition of
legislatively mandated probation. This is a choice, but ...
1 Nov, 2007 11:49 am
... fan site. As noted by wikipedia: "The Lexicon is credited as creating one of the first timelines of all events occurring in the Harry Potter universe. A similar timeline of
events was adopted by Warner Bros. for inclusion with their Harry Potter film DVDs, ... himself using Polyjuice Potion (DH8). Hermione used this to try to Summon the locket
Horcrux in Regulus' room (DH10). Harry similarly attempted to Summon it in Umbridge's office at the Ministry (DH13). An object can be placed under counter- ...
26 Feb, 2008 9:28 pm
... year. After Niro filed a patent suit for a client against Google, Frenkel was among the first to report that Scott Harris, a Fish &
Richardson partner based in San Diego, was listed as the inventor on the patent while his firm was also representing ... . The priorart blog has a timeline. The Chicago IP Litigation
bloggives some detail on the various motions filed in the Harris / Fish matter. An article by Jessie Seyfer in The Recorder on 19 Oct. 2007
touched on the "employment contract" issues: ...
31 Jul 12:35 pm
... . (A defense that argues a patent applicant misled the patent office.) The brief also sheds light on the argument Harris used to get a
patent on the display of e-books in the first place. The examiner rejected Harris's main claim based on an ... from Chicago to San Francisco.
Lawyers representing the plaintiff Memory Control Enterprise, a holding company that asserts various Harris patents, then tried to add other
computer security companies as defendants in the lawsuit, but their motion to do so ...
23 Aug 3:44 am
... story opens: More than half of the 11,500 inmates crammed into the Harris County Jail have not yet been found guilty of a crime but ...
they allegedly committed, based on the newspaper's analysis of inmate data provided by the Harris County Sheriff's Office. The article focuses
in on an issue frequently highlighted here on ... unnecessary incarceration driving Texas jail overcrowding Bail blunders boost bulging Harris
jail population Extra bail conditions: When tough on crime means tough on taxpayers ...
19 Nov, 2007 12:38 am
... not prosecute cases in which police issued citations for such offenses. Law enforcement agencies and officers in Harris County should be
able to exercise the discretion given to them by the Texas Legislature with confidence that the citations they issue ... jail overcrowding. Currently, 43 percent of offenders charged
with misdemeanors for first- or second-time drunk driving choose the Harris County Jail over probation. As odd as that seems, it allows them to
avoid probation fees and end their case ...
2 Aug, 2008 9:51 pm
... ruling on disqualification. NMCCA found that CAPT Geiser had minimal involvement with the ethics investigation into the TC from the Harris
case: Captain Geiser's personal role in the processing of the appellant's ethics complaint can be succinctly described ... was actually more like Magyari than Harcrow. NMCCA reasoned
that unlike in Harcrow, the lab personnel testing Harris's urine were unaware that it was suspected to contain evidence of a crime -- to the
lab personnel, it would have appeared ...
8 Sep, 2008 9:38 pm
... Michigan, won't be publishing Steven Vander Ark's much-anticipated "Harry Potter Lexicon." Not any time soon, and not any time ... last year to stop publication of the
lexicon, claiming that it infringed copyrights in the overwhelmingly popular Harry Potter series of books. Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc. and J.K ... like an encyclopedia or
dictionary, usually in alphabetical order. In Vander Ark's case, the "Harry Potter Lexicon" contained entries referencing and defining creatures, characters, place ...
2 Oct 8:35 am
... in O'Brien. I say this because I genuinely believe that, if lots of thoughtful folks make a strong case that Harris is now harmful in light
of the subsequent Blakely and Booker jurisprudence, few Justices may be eager to defend and uphold ... of Justice Breyer (and maybe also for Justice Kennedy), is that the subsequent
Blakely and Booker rulings largely brought down what Harris sought to preserve: binding guideline systems based on judicial fact-finding. After
Blakely and Booker, the virtues of ...
10 Nov 12:44 pm
... outside the database. To most, providing information about pending legislation is considered a public service. But not to Harris, who has
cynically taken entries from the database concerning federal legislation on children, to claim that Heritage favors crime against children. Whether these bills are in fact of concern,
or even extremely unwise, is unimportant to Harris, who's just out to take a sleazy, cynical cheap shot at an ideological opponent. For
instance, consider ...
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