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28 Jan 2009, 12:09 am
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27 Jan 2009, 9:08 am
The Houston Chronicle columnist's latest is, "Innocent plea needs court hearing. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 5:35 pm
The Houston Chronicle has a news update headlined "Man in Montgomery County killing gets stay of execution. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 1:51 pm
"Man in Montgomery County gets stay of execution," is the report at the Houston Chronicle website by Renee Lee.Condemned killer Larry Swearingen has been granted a second stay of execution. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 12:24 am
Harris County officials are coming to grips with the causes of jail overcrowding now that the tanking economy means building and staffing a new jail is not an immediate option.As has been discussed on Grits many times (see below), Harris County's main jail overcrowding problem stems from radical increases pretrial detention: "The number of people in [the Harris County] jail who are awaiting trial has grown by about 64 prisoners a month for the past two years and has more than doubled since… [read post]
25 Jan 2009, 7:27 am
The Houston Chronicle has published a story linking victims of Hurricane Dolly and Hurricane Ike to FEMA denials based on “deferred maintenance. [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]
23 Jan 2009, 6:49 am
That's the title of an editorial in today's Houston Chronicle. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 5:09 am
I look forward to discussing such issues with two upcoming speakers in our law, politics, and media series here at Syracuse University: the aforementioned Bork, and the Houston Chronicle's Mary Flood. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 10:40 pm
Yesterday's Houston Chronicle reports on the decision. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 10:10 pm
" (San Antonio Express-News; Houston Chronicle). [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 7:04 pm
" The Houston Chronicle provides a news update headlined "Bush commutes sentences of 2 ex-Border Patrol agents. [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 11:46 pm
According to the Houston Chronicle, "recent DNA testing on genetic material found on Franklin's blood-caked fingernails points to someone else, Raby's lawyers contend. [read post]
17 Jan 2009, 10:48 pm
"McVicker's one of Houston's top reporters on justice and public safety topics, doing some of his best work at the Houston Press and the Houston Chronicle covering the fallout from that city's infamous crime lab scandal. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 2:19 am
Houston Rep. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 10:01 pm
The annual running of the Houston Marathon is this weekend, so the Houston Chronicle is running its typical series of supposedly inspiring stories about various participants. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 12:46 pm
David Ellison's Consumer Watch column in the Houston Chronicle carried an profile on the Texas Consumer Complaint Center at the University of Houston Law Center: Texas Consumer Complaint Center helps people with complaints (archived) If there is a particular phone call that makes Gary Saunders proud of his job, it would ... [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 6:40 pm
And yesterday in The Houston Chronicle, columnist Rick Casey had an essay that begins, "Next month's trial of U.S. [read post]
11 Jan 2009, 12:26 pm
The Houston Chronicle recently reported about the case. [read post]
10 Jan 2009, 10:34 pm
As news of more youth on youth sex assaults at the Texas Youth Commission spawns reclassification and segmentation of inmates and more calls to merge the agency with the Juvenile Probation Commission, Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation rightly argues in a Houston Chronicle column ("Consider competition in efforts to reform juvenile justice system," Jan. 10) that the debate over merging agencies has obscured a perhaps more important recommendation from the… [read post]
