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11 Jan 2011, 8:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Reports AP:Snitching could lead to up to $5,000 for Harris County Jail inmates as investigators encourage detainees to phone in tips to Crime Stoppers.The Houston Chronicle reports Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia planned to announce the program Tuesday.Garcia says inmates have crucial information that could help deputies solve or prevent crimes. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 7:15 am by Steve Hall
  "Ex-Army recruiter facing execution in Texas," is the title of Michael Graczyk's AP report, via the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 6:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey offered this observation, supplemented with the opinion of at least one commissioner, regarding the expert testimony from the state fire marshal before the Texas Forensic Science Commission on the Todd Willingham case:Not a single independent scientist came forth to defend the work of Texas Deputy Fire Marshal Manuel Vasquez, who died in 1994, or the Corsicana arson investigator.Instead of seeking a scientist, the State Fire Marshal's… [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 3:30 pm by Christine Dowling
"Texas's Alleged "Twilight Rapist" is Prison Employee:   Authorities believe 53-year-old Billy Joe Harris might be Texas's "twilight rapist," reports Anita Hassan of the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 9:34 am by Steve Hall
Suspects in Houston too poor to hire a lawyer historically have had court-appointed attorneys. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 8:24 am by Steve Hall
Rick Casey writes, "Willingham: Scientists vs. lawyers," for his column in today's Houston Chronicle. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 7:44 am by Steve Hall
"Arson probe that led to execution assailed," by Allan Turner for the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 12:26 pm
Judge David Hittner of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas [official website] heard testimony from three psychiatrists before concluding that Stanford's addiction to anti-anxiety and anti-depression medications prescribed by prison physicians has rendered him unable to meaningfully contribute to his defense [Houston Chronicle report]. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 11:20 am by Mark Bennett
So how and why did the story of this defendant’s cooperation become front-page news in the Houston Chronicle? [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 9:05 am by Steve Hall
That's the title of an editorial in yesterday's Houston Chronicle. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 6:11 am by Susan Cartier Liebel
Keene has been interviewed for NBC News, Fox News, Time.com, The New York Times, The Houston Chronicle, and many other media outlets. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 7:56 am
The petition challenges the legality [Houston Chronicle report] of a rule [75 CFR 82430 text] enacted Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] partially reversing its approval of the state's Prevention of Significant... [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 12:39 pm by SOIssues
However, she has not admitted to killing him," Houston police spokesman Kese Smith told the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 10:01 pm by Tom K.
Davidoff, the NY Times Dealbook's Deal Professor on the world of mergers and acquisitions, includes Landry's Restaurants, Inc's Tilman Fertitta - for many of the reasons chronicled over the past several years here --  in the group of businessmen getting an "F" for dealmaking in 2010: Others deserving an F are Tilman Fertitta, chief executive of Landry's, for his second buyout effort of the restaurant company. [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 5:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Houston Chronicle editorial board joins the chorus criticizing plans to cut mental health services in a way that would strand mentally ill inmates and associated expenses in local jails. [read post]