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19 Nov, 2008 12:32 am
Revis Otto Willis, 48, Houston, Texas, a former mortgage broker, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for his
leadership role in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme. United States District Judge Nancy F. Atlas imposed the 121-month sentence to be followed by a three-year-term of
supervised release at a hearing today. Willis was convicted of wire fraud after pleading guilty September 18, 2007. Willis … Read More...
3 Mar 10:26 am
AP's Michael Graczyk writes this updated report, via the Houston Chronicle website. Attorneys looked to the courts to stop the scheduled
Tuesday execution of an Oklahoma man convicted of ... 85-year-old woman to death during a burglary in far northeast Texas. Willie Pondexter,
34, was one of two men condemned for the murder of Martha Lennox at her ... nation this year; the 1,152nd execution since executions resumed in America in 1977. Houston's KPFT-FM will host Execution Watch on the web and it's HD ...
15 Jul 7:16 am
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Against Houston's Restaurant Demonstrates Risks of Accessing Employee's Restricted Social Networking Sites.
19 Oct 4:09 pm
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31 Oct, 2007 4:17 pm
Well, this is a little late on notice but the Texas Comptroller's Office is offering free presentations on the new Texas Franchise Tax that takes effect next year. There are several
remaining opportunities across the state: - Waco 11/1 - Tyler 11/5 - Houston 11/7 - Harlingen 11/8 - Arlington 11/13 - San Antonio 11/14 There
will also be a webcast made available later in November in case you cannot make it to a live presentation. Topics that will be covered at the presentation include: - ...
20 Oct 5:46 am
Christine Hurt at The Conglomerate has this piece on last week's Houston Chronicle article, which wondered if the presence of three
Enron-related cases on this Term's docket is more indicative of zealous Enron Task Force prosecution or effective Enron lawyering on appeal. One former prosecutor theorizes that the
matter is so well-represented because Enron is an opportunity for government prosecutors to "develop new, aggressive theories to enhance their arsenal," while law professor Adam ...
8 Feb, 2007 8:26 am
... a copy of the report to the forensic commission with a letter requesting an investigation into arson convictions in Texas. "Willis cannot be found 'actually innocent' and
Willingham executed based on the same scientific evidence," Scheck wrote to ... on the Willingham case or any other. Commission Chair Debbie Lynn Benningfield, who works as an
administrator in the Houston police fingerprint lab, refuses to comment on cases that might be pending before the commission (other
commissioners referred ...
6 Sep 4:20 am
... she was doing. A forty-seven-year-old French teacher and playwright from Houston, Gilbert was divorced with two children. She had never
visited a prison before. ... man during a robbery. Years later, a second victim, who survived the shooting, told the Houston Chronicle that he
had been pressured by police to identify Cantu as the gunman, even ... show "any emotion," as one volunteer firefighter put it. Authorities also wondered how Willis could have
escaped the house without burning his bare feet. Fire ...
9 Jan, 2008 10:10 pm
... a facility as most suburban high school gyms in the Houston area -- is nearly an impossible task. Nevertheless, for the past 16 years,
Willis Wilson has toiled gamely as Rice's ... has represented his institution as an articulate and professional gentleman. Accordingly, most folks in the Houston community who have followed local college athletics for awhile like me were ... into consideration as we move forward." If Rice allows Del Conte to
can Willis Wilson after 16 faithful years and before he has had ...
27 Feb 8:20 am
... inmate's request to delay execution," is Allan Turner's report in today's Houston Chronicle. A federal court Thursday refused to delay
Tuesday's execution of Willie Pondexter Jr., who was sentenced to die for the 1993 murder of an 85-year-old Northeast Texas woman. Represented
by lawyers from the Houston office of the Texas Defender Service, Pondexter, 33, claimed that Texas prison officials and Polk County sheriff's
officers wrongfully interfered with ...
6 Mar, 2007 7:05 am
... tomorrow night's scheduled execution of Joseph Nichols. In short: Person A and Person B enter a deli in downtown Houston with intent to
rob. Person A shoots the clerk. Gets a death sentence. Is executed. Person B is put on trial six ... sentenced to death as the shooter. Williams has since been executed. According to
the trial transcripts, the state argued: "Willie Williams is the individual who killed Claude Schaffer. That's all there is to it. It is
scientific. It is complete. It is final and it ...
30 Oct 7:41 am
... - but was exonerated because the forensic evidence was so flawed. The Pecos County prosecutor who requested Willis' exoneration determined that the arson analysis was wrong
because it relied on outdated and inaccurate forensic techniques. Willis ... work the Legislature had in mind when it created the commission. The legislation creating the
commission passed in 2005, in the midst of the Houston Police Department crime lab scandal. Many legislators cited problems in the lab when
debating whether ...
28 Aug, 2007 11:38 pm
... law states. TYC still has to follow the written statutes, they're not mind readers. The Willie Horton Effect: Youth crime reporting without
context While Ward covered the public policy questions, the Houston Chronicle's Lisa Sandberg offered up this ... for committing new offenses,
including McJunkin and 42 others for violent crimes, documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle reveal. The article points out that the 408
rearrests amounts to a 20% recidivism rate, meaning about 2 ...
7 Oct, 2007 11:05 pm
... 10 RCAA/.366 OBA/.453 SLG/.820 OPS/11 HR's and in 324 PA's between Houston and San Diego, Morgan Ensberg hit -6 RCAA/.320 OBA/.404 SLG/.724
OPS/12 ... that cover the Stros consider him an abject failure. In 1632 career plate appearances, former Stros CF Willy Taveras has hit -30 RCAA/.338 OBA/.350 SLG/.688 OPS/6 HR.
Many of ... and Cody Ransom: I. Beware of small sample sizes. Anderson is a 24 year old CF and Willy Taveras clone. His small sample size with the Stros (4 RCAA/.413 OBA/.403
SLG/.816 OPS ...
14 Sep 8:09 am
... ignored evidence that contradicted their theories. His was the second critical report by scientists examining the capital murder cases of Ernest Willis, convicted of setting
a 1986 fatal fire in Iraan, and Cameron Todd Willingham, sentenced for killing his three ... . Those numbers make the Beyler report all the more troubling, said state Sen. Rodney Ellis,
D-Houston, who has pushed to create a commission in Texas to explore questionable convictions. "As scientific methods improve," he said, "it's
...
7 Oct, 2008 6:01 am
... starting the following Tuesday against the Marlins in Miami. However, despite the catastrophic damage to the Houston area from Hurricane
Ike, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig insisted that as many of the Stros- ... everyone except for his adoring female fans, the Brad Ausmus era is over in Houston. Ausmus and his masterful agent have pulled one of the greatest con ... get a true run producer to play right-field. It looks as if Bourn is
Willy Taveras-lite, which is a scary thought. Brandon Backe -- F (-31 RSAA ...
21 May, 2007 3:01 am
... , regularly reveals that he doesn't really understand the game even after covering it for 10 years and writing a book on the subject. Here is Ortiz's latest example of analytical
confusion, again involving former Stros centerfielder, Willy Taveras: Former Astros center fielder Willy Taveras stole his 10th base of the year in the Colorado Rockies
40th game. The 10 stolen bases would have tied for the team lead last year. After a slow start, Taveras is playing well for the Rockies. And although he ...
20 Jul, 2007 11:18 pm
... Stros gave up (pitchers Jason Hirsh and Taylor Buchholz, and centerfielder Willy Taveras) have been below-average so far during their Major League ... . Earlier this week, I
even heard a host of one of the ubiquitous sports talk shows on Houston's radio landscape -- a barren wasteland of insightful thought with the
exception of Charlie Pallilo and ... Lofton and infielder Dave Rohde to Cleveland for catcher Eddie Taubensee and pitcher Willie Blair. Over
the past 16 seasons, Lofton has generated 234 more ...
22 Jul, 2008 6:38 pm
... case, please check out our page, Yearning for Zion Ranch (FLDS) Cases. The Houston Chronicle Article: Female members of the polygamist sect
are refusing to answer questions before a ... used against them. Only one male member of the sect has been subpoenaed: Willie Jessop, the
former bodyguard of jailed president and sect prophet, Warren Jeffs. "It'll all come out," Willie Jessop said as he waited in the Schleicher
County Courthouse to be called before grand jurors. Asked if he expected members of ...
11 Nov 7:54 am
... Tuesday's meeting, Bradley tangled repeatedly with Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, chairman of the board of the Innocence Project. The
project in 2006 filed a complaint with the forensics commission that launched its probe into the Willingham case, as well as that of Ernest Willis, who spent 17 years on death
row before being cleared in an arson murder by modern scientific techniques. Under questioning from Ellis, Bradley kept referring to ...
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