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13 Apr 2010, 9:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Go read the Texas Tribune's Reeve Hamilton's story on pro se litigants and the functional challenges they pose to a court system designed to service attorneys. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 1:26 am
"Lupe" Flores said the county's misdemeanor judges are working with the district attorney's office to develop new procedures. [read post]
14 Feb 2015, 10:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Bexar Countys list has 65; Denton County has 39.Many larger offices — including Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg’s — fought the newspaper’s requests to release any information, arguing to then-Attorney General Greg Abbott that their records of officers with dubious credibility should not have to be released because they are internal law… [read post]
26 Jun 2007, 8:20 pm
Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed has issued this report on the case of Ruben Cantu, a likely innocent executed by Texas. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 4:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A second attorney has filed claims that Harris County medical examiner reports are invalid based on researcher and occasional Grits commenter David Fisher's findings that most of them had not signed constitutionally required oaths of office or bribery statements which are seemingly required for them to perform their duties. [read post]
30 Jun 2019, 8:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But thanks to appellant Allison Jacobs, her attorneys, and perhaps most interestingly, new Bexar DA Joe Gonzalez, that practice will now be revisited.Here's Judge Christian dressed in a camo robe. [read post]
21 Apr 2008, 7:54 am
" Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins thinks the spark for the debate "is going to come from someone in a district attorney's seat. [read post]
23 May 2010, 7:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's how the story in the Dallas News by Jennifer Emily opens ("Dallas County district attorney's conviction integrity unit to focus on non-DNA cases," May 23):It's been almost a year since the last DNA exoneree walked out of a Dallas County courtroom and into the world as a free man.The flood of exonerations in Dallas County, where since 2001 more wrongfully convicted people… [read post]
1 Jan 2008, 10:27 pm
The bigger barrier to implementation are attitudes of local officials, summarized by a Collin County ADA:For Greg Davis, Collin County's first assistant district attorney, one of his qualms with the new law is the perception created by ticketing for a drug offense, instead of making an arrest. [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
NDAA's tantrum reads like they're shaking their fists a the sky and decrying that it's blue.Rural counties driving mass incarceration? [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 8:44 am
The private investigator in the case, Richard Reyna, a former Sheriff's deputy hired by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said of the District Attorney in the Houston Chronicle ("Bexar DA calls investigation justified," June 27): "She's shameless," ... adding that the report has "discounted, disrespected and insulted" Moreno. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 8:29 am by Steve Hall
“Our ultimate goal with the mental health grant is to decrease the rate of recidivism so their contact in the future with the criminal justice system is greatly reduced,” said Judge Cara Wood, of the 284th state District Court, adding the program will offer treatment and alternatives so the defendants no longer come in contact with the criminal justice system.Services would be contracted out to a group of attorneys with a nonprofit agency, Perez said.If the grant… [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 8:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
”In October 2015, the Bexar County District Attorneys Conviction Integrity Unit filed a motion to dismiss the charge. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 4:14 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
We haven't reached that point yet, but if and when they do, Sheriffs will need a Plan B besides playing the PR game and hoping for the best.RELATED: District Attorneys in Dallas, Bexar, Nueces, and Fort Bend Counties, represented by my neighbor, Jessica Brand, filed an amicus brief in the lawsuit before the Texas Supreme Court related to the legality of the governor's executive order related to COVID-related jail releases. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 9:20 am by Steve Hall
"I guess we know what we're doing," Assistant District Attorney Ed Shettle said recently from his downtown Beaumont office. [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 1:09 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Reports KHOU-TV out of Houston, "An inmate serving time in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for burglary and injury to a child was linked to an unsolved sexual assault of a woman in 2008, according to the Harris County District Attorneys office. [read post]
25 Aug 2007, 5:31 am
Offenses where citations can be given in lieu of arrests include:Marijuana possession, (up to 4 oz)Criminal mischief with less than $500 damageGraffiti with less than $500 damageTheft by check with less than $500 stolenTheft of service with less than $500 stolenDriving With an Invalid LicenseUnlike Bexar and Harris Counties, where the District Attorneys are thwarting the Texas Legislature's most important jail overcrowding initiative (and… [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 4:15 pm
Millsap, former District Attorney, Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas.The former judges and prosecutors say that "Mr. [read post]