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27 Jan 2022, 7:00 am by Matthew Beddingfield
  The plaque sits as a monument to three astronauts, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, who died when a catastrophic fire ripped through their command module during a “plugs-out” preflight test for what was meant to be the first manned Apollo mission. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 5:30 am by Bailey DeSimone
., John Glenn Jr., Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard, and Donald K. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 11:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
To get a better sense of it all, Scott sat down with Brandi Grissom-Swicegood, a veteran news reporter and departing Austin bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 5:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire passed legislation last year aimed at shifting more juvenile offenders into community supervision, though the final version was much neutered from what he originally proposed. [read post]
27 Jul 2016, 12:37 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Since just a few reporters even knew the database existed (besides Grits, Brandi Grissom of the Dallas News, Tanya Eiserer at WFAA, and John Tedesco at the SA Express-News are the only writers I've seen use it in years), most of the detail here is being revealed publicly for the first time, including on cases from up to a decade ago.See the press release announcing the new site launch and a 22-page report detailing her initial findings from eleven years of data. [read post]
12 Mar 2016, 8:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
”As a result, more district attorneys are starting their own units, said John Hollway, executive director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 4:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Cornyn continues to expend political capital on criminal justice reform even as Texas' junior senator and active presidential candidate Ted Cruz opposes it. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 2:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Our Alinskyite friends at the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT) are mad at Governor Greg Abbott, reported the Dallas News' Brandi Grissom, because he "appointed Josh McGee, a vice president at the Houston-based Laura and John Arnold Foundation, to the State Pension Review Board this week.The review board, created by the state legislature, is charged with overseeing state and local government retirement systems. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 9:40 am by John Floyd
In March 2012, Brandi Grissom published a piece in the Texas Tribune about prosecutorial misconduct going unpunished by the State Bar of Texas. [read post]
15 Nov 2014, 9:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire articulated what to me is the obvious conclusion, one endorsed by the prison guards' union: That Texas operates too many prisoners incarcerating too many people who don't need to be there. [read post]
22 Dec 2013, 7:21 am by Ross Davies
Diaghileff, 53 American Journal of Legal History 353 (2013) • John H. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 7:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At the John Montford Psychiatric Unit in Lubbock, the average of violent incident reports was 43 per 100 inmates from 2006 to 2012. [read post]
12 Sep 2013, 10:57 pm by Jeff Gamso
  The question is what to do with him.Brandi Grissom in the Texas Tribune gives some background. [read post]
17 Aug 2013, 12:21 pm by Old Fox
Model M Pocket Hammerless .32 pistol by John M. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 5:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I was there on behalf of the Innocence Project of Texas to support two bills, both by Chairman John Whitmire. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 7:19 am by Gritsforbreakfast
State Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire filed legislation yesterday - SB 825 - that would disallow the state bar from issuing private reprimands to prosecutors who withhold exculpatory evidence from the defense. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 8:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
However, "Lawyers for the Texas attorney general's office said Monday that a “cloud of procedural impropriety” is casting a shadow over the pending sale of the former Texas Highway Patrol Museum, and they recommended that the building be put back on the market," reported the San Antonio Express-News.Dallas DA may face primary challengeIn Dallas, former drug court Judge John Creuzot is contemplating a run against District Attorney Craig Watkins in the 2014 Democratic primary.Big… [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 8:28 am by Steve Hall
John Kitzhaber of Oregon established a moratorium on his state’s death penalty last year,... [read post]