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23 Dec 2011, 9:07 am
The Houston Chronicle reports. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 3:06 pm
See the Houston Chronicle's coverage.MORE: And the obligatory holiday-themed crime, via the Bryan-College Station Eagle. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 9:42 am
The Houston Chronicle reports, "Capital punishment 'on the defensive'. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 6:35 am
” Ariane de Vogue of ABC News provides background, observing that the redistricting controversy has “wreak[ed] havoc in Texas,” while Gary Martin of the Houston Chronicle suggests that the Court’s decision may cause partisan manipulation of political lines to “backfire on Republicans and Democrats. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 5:44 am
[Roger Kimball, Houston Chronicle; Jacob Sullum; earlier] Tags: eminent domain, libel slander and defamation Related posts In Texas, free speech wins a round (0) Youtube lawsuit of the week: A&P vs. rappers (3) You mean it was trillions? [read post]
17 Dec 2011, 5:01 am
The details from the chief's memo confirm a Houston Chronicle report that the backlog likely was far greater.The backlog also is likely to continue to grow. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 10:56 am
The Houston Chronicle provides further coverage. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 6:39 am
Manny Fernandez of the New York Times reports on the announcement’s effects on the election process in Texas, just a few months before the scheduled March 6 primary, while Brian Chasnoff and Nolan Hicks of the San Antonio Express-News (via the Houston Chronicle’s Texas on the Potomac blog) similarly describe the “political nightmare” created by the Court’s orders. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 3:38 am
According to a recent investigation conducted by the Houston Chronicle, Houston-based home health care firms are in constant violation of state and federal regulations, yet, tax-payer money is still being shelled out to cover their expenses. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 7:50 am
Read a Q&A in the Houston Chronicle with author Michael Berryhill about his new book, The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 8:29 am
Here are a few disparate items for Grits readers' Sunday morning reading pleasure:Eyewitness wrong, life sentence overturned: LaDondrell Montgomery was convicted of robbery in Harris County and given a life sentence based on eyewitness testimony and video footage of the incident, but his lawyer figured out after his conviction that he was in jail at the time the offense was committed, reported the Houston Chronicle this week. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 8:43 am
In a practice that wouldn't be allowed in today's TDCJ, he "began writing stories to support his young daughter while he was in prison," moving to New York to continue his career after his release.According to the Houston Chronicle's coverage in 1985, O Henry's (i.e, William Sydney Porter's) federal pardon application, championed by supporters including late-Texas state appellate court Judge Trueman O'Quinn, was turned down at that time… [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 7:47 am
” The Houston Chronicle’s David Gibson also has coverage. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 9:17 am
Encouragingly, the reader comments under the Houston Chronicle story were, with few exceptions, overwhelmingly supportive of Lykos' stance and critical of the unions. [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 5:54 am
"Newspaper sides with Harris DA on crack-residue policyThe Houston Chronicle editorial board sides with District Attorney Pat Lykos in the debate with police unions and their proxies over prosecuting felonies based on residue-level drug amounts when officers arrest someone with a crack pipe. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 10:01 am
The issue came to the state Supreme Court after a lower court judge ruled part of the lethal injection law unconstitutional.One of Last Two Victims of Houston Serial Killer Identified: Lise Olsen of the Houston Chronicle reports a team of Harris County forensic scientists have identified one of the last unknown victims of Houston serial killer Dean Corll as Roy Eugene Bunton. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 1:39 pm
A recent analysis by the Houston Chronicle found that 12 of the last 13 defendants who got the death penalty in Harris County were black. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 3:50 am
The latest report from the Houston Chronicle's Lise Olsen ("Nearly 400 capital murder convicts get life without parole," Nov. 29) confirms precisely Grits fears since the LWOP law was created:In six years, Texas has built a "lifer's row" filled with 398 prisoners who will never be released through parole - a fast-growing group that already has outpaced the number of inmates serving a death sentence in the Lone Star State, a Houston… [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 7:22 am
"Nearly 400 capital murder convicts get life without parole," is the title of Lise Olsen's report in today's Houston Chronicle. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 6:51 am
The Austin American-Statesman, CNN, the Houston Chronicle, Texas Tribune, and the Associated Press (via the Washington Post) all have coverage. [read post]
