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10 Mar 2010, 7:32 am
Today's Houston Chronicle carries an OpEd, "DNA testing works, but not if we fail to utilize it," written by Sam Millsap, the former Bexar County District Attorney. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 5:51 am
For more on the settlement, see this piece by the Houston Chronicle and this blog post on the Houston Press website. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 8:24 am
"Harris County's request for public defender grant in trouble," is the Houston Chronicle report by Chris Moran.Harris County risks losing out on $4.4 million in state money to launch a public defender office unless it can in the next month improve its plan to roll out the office in October.Judges currently appoint defense counsel to the indigent, making Harris the largest county in the nation without a public defender office. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 7:13 am
Having recently mentioned the new dog-training program at TYC's girls' unit in Brownwood, I should point out this article in the Houston Chronicle about a similar program for women offenders at TDCJ in Gatesville that trains dogs for disabled veterans. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 8:33 am
That's the title of Patricia Kilday Hart's commentary in today's Houston Chronicle, and it starts our roundup of coverage of Rail Bhuiyan's campaign for a commutation of his attacker's death sentence. [read post]
3 May 2008, 3:02 am
I was surprised to see Houston Chronicle columnist Rick Casey calling for seizure of all Texas assets of the YFZ Ranch as a next step in Texas' biggest ever child welfare boondoggle. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 10:10 am
The Court of Criminal Appeals in November overturned Alfred Brown's capital murder conviction for allegedly shooting a Houston police officer "after the Harris County District Attorney's Office acknowledged it had withheld material evidence that supported his alibi," reported Lisa Falkenberg at the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
12 May 2013, 4:59 am
But if we can't know who approved (read: rubber stamped) prosecution decisions and 97% of cases end in plea bargains, it become increasingly difficult to tell if there's any meat in the sandwich at all.Conservative blogger Big Jolly then took the matter to the next level, describing important public-interest stories from the Denton Record Chronicle (pdf) and the Houston Chronicle which would not have been possible if Sen. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 7:21 am
He appears more vulnerable now and I wouldn't be surprised to see Hawk upset the favored incumbent.Corrupt cop escorted drug loads in HoustonA former Houston police officer, Marcos Carrion, pled guilty to escorting drug shipments through town on behalf of a drug cartel, the Houston Chronicle reported. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 11:01 pm
The Houston Chronicle's Mary Flood interviewed Yeager and touches on the pressures he endured in fighting the charges. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 6:01 am
Hoffman took over the presidency of the University of Houston in 1961, UH was a sleepy, segregated city college of about 12,000 students. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 3:03 am
An article in the Houston Chronicle addressed the fact that more and more senior drivers are hitting the streets each year. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 7:13 am
District Court in Houston. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 8:53 am
The Houston Chronicle columnist's latest is, "A murder mystery by the numbers. [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 1:55 am
UPDATE (1/26): Swearingen has received a temporary, last-minute reprieve from the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.DNA may have identified another innocent man convicted and sentenced to Texas death row, says a Houston Chronicle editorial ("Room for Doubt," Jan. 23), but he'll die on Tuesday unless Governor Perry stays the execution:Larry Ray Swearingen has lived on Texas death row for eight years, convicted of the rape-murder of a Montgomery County coed in 1998.… [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 8:50 am
That's the title of an editorial in today's Houston Chronicle regarding Texas' executive clemency process. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 7:13 am
District Court in Houston. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 9:06 pm
“Insurer cutbacks squeeze patients out of high-end care” [Houston Chronicle] “Deflate Drug Prices by Reforming the FDA” [Richard Morrison, CEI, thanks for quote] Penny wise: Obama plan would penalize doctors who recommend routine prostate cancer tests for older men [WSJ, Betsy McCaughey/New York Post] “Clearly, it would take an extraordinarily overbearing [British] state to move [sugar] consumption anywhere close to this target. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 9:21 am
"Part of the (Numbers) GameMeanwhile, Mark Bennett on Tuesday published an internal memo from the DA's office laying out the rules for a game where prosecutors compete against one another for prestigious assignments by seeing who can first rack up the largest number of jury trials, a topic that received followup coverage from the Houston Chronicle.'Deaths, lawsuits don’t stop expansion of GEO immigration prisons'At the San Antonio Current, Michael Barajas… [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 3:02 am
[Curbed Los Angeles] “America’s Ugly Strip Malls Were Caused By Government Regulation” [Scott Beyer] Tags: California, historic preservation, Houston, land use and zoning, Los Angeles, Virginia Land use and real estate roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
