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14 Dec 2008, 2:25 pm
This fascinating article from the Houston Chronicle, headlined "Unlikely force fighting sex crime's stigma: Texas Voices wants laws to note difference between dangerous predators, nonviolent offenders," spotlights a group seeking to refine which and how offenders appear on sex offender registries. [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 12:40 pm
Friday's Houston Chronicle reports on efforts by Adrian Garcia, the new sheriff-elect of Harris County, Texas, to reach out to the local Sikh community after Sikh Coalition criticized the handling of an incident by deputies under outgoing sheriff Tommy Thomas. [read post]
13 Dec 2008, 3:40 pm
"Judge bars Kent from using polygraph results in his trial": Yesterday in The Houston Chronicle, Mary Flood had an article that begins, "U.S. [read post]
13 Dec 2008, 6:59 am
In Houston, all that old evidence was mostly destroyed or contaminated in the state's possession, so only a relative handful of more recent cases still have biological evidence available for testing.Still, Harris County has seen its share of DNA exonerees, including a terrible story that came out this week from the Houston Chronicle ("5 years lost in prison before DNA got tested," Dec. 12):Five years after he was wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting a… [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 2:05 pm
"Kent wants lie detector tests to be admissible in his trial; Federal judge accused of abusive sexual conduct": This article appears today in The Houston Chronicle. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 4:39 pm
That's the title of Rick Casey's latest Houston Chronicle column. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 5:36 am
The Houston Chronicle, December 6, 2008 reports on the potential reinstatment of the death penalty in Mexico, and its impact on extraditions to the United States. [read post]
7 Dec 2008, 12:55 pm
Crime and Consequences informs us that this year we've seen:Fewer Death Sentences in Texas: A story in the Houston Chronicle by Michael Graczyk reports that significantly fewer Texas murderers received a death sentence this year. [read post]
6 Dec 2008, 11:25 am
Despite the overly cutesy title (a common problem) "Lawyers turn career into pet project", is a nice article by Mary Flood in the Houston Chronicle about the growing number of attorneys practicing animal law in that state. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 4:00 pm
In 2005, the Houston Chronicle, in a remarkable piece of investigative journalism that has complicated my life immeasurably, argued persuasively that one of my prosecutions - the Ruben Cantu case - may have resulted in the execution of an innocent man.I fervently hope that there are only a few current and former prosecutors in America today who find themselves, as I do, in the position of having to admit an error in judgment that may have led to the execution of an innocent… [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 1:40 am
"Justice Hecht fined $29,000 for illegal contribution": The Houston Chronicle has a news update that begins, "The Texas Ethics Commission today fined Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht $29,000 for accepting and failing to report an illegal political contribution from a law firm. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 11:00 pm
The Statesman’s legal beat writer reports “Justice fined by ethics commission” More context on today’s hearing is provided by the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 9:27 am
Second -- and entirely apt -- comment on an article the Houston Chronicle obviously meant as a heart-warming, triumph-of-the-feline-spirit, little-girl-cuddly tale of fuzzy-wuzzy love and indomitable outdoorsiness. blog advertising blog advertising [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 4:43 am
Houston-based Raptor Systems, which performs background checks for Lake Travis and 5,000 other schools nationwide, said it was unaware of similar lawsuits. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 5:26 pm
But I've followed the issue enough in the past to be surprised when a reader sent me the link to a Houston Chronicle story which reported today that:Red-light cameras apparently reduced overall collisions at dozens of monitored intersections across Texas, according to a state transportation study. [read post]
1 Dec 2008, 3:32 pm
While I'm focused elsewhere today, let me point readers to several stories I'd blog about in more detail if I had more time:Creative sentencingThe Rockwall Herald Banner recently published a column by a local attorney on creative sentencing practices, their benefits and limits.Gone to the dogsThe Houston Chronicle has a feature on dogfighting and a new PR campaign by the Houston PD aimed at combating it.Extra creditStudent internships at the local jail? [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 5:45 pm
As a Houston Chronicle article (which I found at the Immigration Prof blog, at the prior hyperlink) reported recently, The T visa program was created under the U.S. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 4:50 pm
John Blevins (South Texas) had an opinion piece supporting the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) in the Houston Chronicle this past Saturday. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 7:45 am
At 171 total, he's pardoned less than half the number of people as Bill Clinton during his two terms, with a disproportionate number of those coming from Texas.The Houston Chronicle profiled one of the Texans' pardoned: Daniel Pue, convicted of a felony for illegal dumping of sludge in a ditch in East Texas. [read post]
24 Nov 2008, 2:32 pm
Bill Cooper, president of the Center for LNG (CLNG), responds in the Houston Chronicle to a representative of a marine security firm who made an erroneous claim about the potential risks associated with the transportation of LNG. [read post]
