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14 Mar 2009, 4:42 am
Mary Flood at the Houston Chronicle's Legal Trade blog offers up a list of rumored candidates for the US Attorney for Texas' Southern District based in Houston.Those on the rumored short list are: * ex-prosecutor Eric Reed, who is from South Texas and may have the three Congressmen from the southern section of the district on his side * ex-prosecutor and ex-state judge John Kyles, who is of counsel at Vinson & Elkins * ex-prosecutor… [read post]
4 Aug 2007, 12:44 am
And it's why the hubris of one District Attorney with apparently too much time on her hands shouldn't stop the project from going forward.See prior related Grits coverage:Bexar officials should blow off DA's needle exchange gripesProsecutors disagree whether Bexar DA justified in blocking needle exchangeBexar county judge elated to pioneer first Texas needle exchangeWow! [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 1:44 am
The decision by the Bexar County DA to use needle exchange-related prosecutions for political grandstanding appears to be backfiring, at least to judge by the media response.National media are paying attention, and editorial boards around the state are beginning to take potshots at Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed's use of prosecutorial discretion to charge three Christian needle exchange activists with Class A misdemeanors instead of the Class C… [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]
24 Mar 2008, 1:52 am
I was shocked to see the brazenly false declaration, "We did not go out looking for this," First Assistant District Attorney Crag Herberg said. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 7:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A wealthy trial lawyer from Corpus Christi will give up to $600,000 to Nico LaHood, the Democratic challenger to Susan Reed for Bexar County District Attorney, to purchase TV advertising, the SA Express-News reported. [read post]
15 Jun 2008, 6:53 am
Lately on this blog, discussions of "harm reduction" have centered around the Attorney General's nonsensical legal opinion and Bexar District Attorney Susan Reed's efforts to bully out of existence a legislatively approved needle exchange program in San Antonio. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 8:33 am by Kent Scheidegger
Michelle Mondo reports for the Houston Chroncle: Singing to God, praising Yahweh and even asking Jesus to torment District Attorney Susan Reed so "she, too, finds the Lord," convicted cop killer Frank Garcia was loud just before his execution Thursday -- but he was not repentant. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 7:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed, who herself was ousted earlier this month in the general election, threatened to prosecute volunteers who participated in the pilot, effectively rescinding the Legislature's permission under authority of the executive branch. [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]
5 Nov 2014, 5:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
While Texas' MSM seemed in a veritable frenzy over the non-race for governor, the three races I was most interested in all turned out to be pretty close, with two upsets out of three District Attorneys races in Texas' three largest cities. [read post]
27 Apr 2018, 3:08 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
But then-District Attorney Susan Reed vowed to prosecute government employees (or anyone else) associated with the program, then-Attorney General Greg Abbott agreed she could do so, even though the Legislature had authorized it, and so the program never got off the ground.However, in the wake of losing his primary election, Bexar County DA Nico Lahood is reversing his predecessor's position and giving the go-ahead to a needle-exchange pilot in River… [read post]
23 Jun 2013, 7:45 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's how it opened:A high-ranking member of District Attorney Susan Reed's team has left the office, weeks after the Express-News exposed a driving while intoxicated case involving her son that was dismissed with little explanation.Adriana Biggs — who had been a Bexar County prosecutor for nearly two decades, the last eight years at the helm of the white collar crimes division — left her post Thursday, First Assistant District… [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 7:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Susan Reed will be a tough opponent and that would be a big Democratic get in a year when the county party is in disarray. [read post]
15 Jul 2007, 9:06 pm
Many critics - us included - feel shortchanged by DA Susan Reed's review. [read post]
3 May 2012, 7:29 am by Steve Hall
District Judge Fred Biery, based in San Antonio, granted a stay in response to the civil rights suit brought by Dow against District Attorney Susan Reed. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 10:35 am
Robert Guest at I Was the State examines statements from Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley and the head of the Iranian national drug control agency Ali Hashemi on the issue of needle exchange. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 7:58 am
Texas Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jeff Wentworth has requested that Attorney General Greg Abott determine whether participants in a legislatively authorized needle exchange pilot in Bexar County can be prosecuted as Bexar District Attorney Susan Reed has threatened to do. [read post]