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29 Sep 2009, 10:10 am
"I want to commend Judge Emmett and the commissioners for unanimously voting to do the right thing for Harris County . [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 9:16 am
Harris County (Houston) Commissioners have instructed the county's budget officer to examine public defender offices with the possibility of creating one for the county. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 8:56 am
Even as Dallas County commissioners' new caseload quotas and heightened bureaucracy gutted their Public Defender office (I learned over the weekend a 6th felony attorney turned in their resignation on top of the five mentioned earlier on Grits), in Harris County the commissioners court today will hear the details of a preliminary plan on how to create a PD office in Houston. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 4:45 am
Harris County Commissioner Steve Radack is suggesting privatization of the Harris County Jail, a lockup that's collectively larger than the prison systems of 20 US states. [read post]
3 Aug 2019, 11:50 am
The Harris County Commissioners Court has approved bail reforms to overcome constitutional flaws cited by a federal judge and to settle a 2016 class action lawsuit by indigent misdemeanor defendants. [read post]
19 Oct 2021, 9:21 am
In May 2021, Harris County Commissioners Court approved an initiative for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 8:00 am
Word is that this morning Harris County Commissioner’s Court will select Alex Bunin, Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of New York, as Harris County’s first PD. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 7:37 am
Earlier coverage from Harris County on the topic begins here. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 4:25 am
Last week Harris County grand juries were in the media spotlight. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 7:54 am
Commissioners Court on Tuesday hired a chief public defender, choosing a lawyer with a record of opening federal public defender offices to establish a Harris County agency to represent indigent defendants. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 1:49 pm
County commissioners Tuesday officially hired the county's first public defender. [read post]
6 Aug 2019, 9:30 am
County officials agreed with the move in late July, in a case Commissioner Rodney Ellis said was “as big as Brown v. [read post]
6 Aug 2019, 9:30 am
County officials agreed with the move in late July, in a case Commissioner Rodney Ellis said was “as big as Brown v. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 9:07 am
Earlier coverage of the Harris County proposal begins with this post. [read post]
24 Sep 2009, 4:47 am
The Harris County Commissioner's Court next week (September 29) is scheduled to consider a proposal to create a public defender office, and in preparation the Texas Fair Defense Project yesterday issued a new "white paper" (pdf) detailing benefits the county could expect if it establishes one. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 5:57 pm
The PD's Office wants to do the job in those courts that the Harris County Commissioners' Court has given it, but some of the juvenile-court judges don't want to release their profitable control over the appointment of counsel (they can't expect campaign contributions from the PD). [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 2:18 am
Considering how much money Harris County spends on its criminal justice system, I'm surprised their commissioners court appears to have barely ever considered the idea of a public defender office, which state Sen. [read post]
3 Jul 2021, 10:20 am
The post Harris County Has a Backlog of 100,000 Criminal Cases appeared first on Neal Davis Blog. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 2:17 am
All that's needed is one judge to support it and county commissioners to fund it. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 9:24 am
While the appointment of Harris County Criminal Court Judges was on the agenda this week, apparently Harris County Commissioner's Court decided to wait on the appointments until after the primary elections in March. [read post]
