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7 Nov 2019, 12:51 pm by John Floyd
  Legacy of Death Follows Johnny Holmes, Kelly Siegler   One of those five prosecutors was former Harris County District Attorney Johnny Holmes who secured the most death sentences ever, topping out at 200. [read post]
2 Oct 2015, 12:06 pm by John Floyd
Yeah, [Kepple] presents that as an example of using Johnny Holmes’ stellar reputation to get away with anything. [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 7:39 pm
" Phillips reviewed all the death sentences imposed in Harris County (Houston) over a period of eight years (1992-1999, while Johnny Holmes was still the district attorney) and first found - as studies all over the country have also shown - that the race of the victim of a homicide is a significant factor in whether the death penalty is sought by the prosecutor and whether it is imposed by the jury. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 6:01 am
Bradford) would shake things up in the short run: any regime change in the DA's office (Chuck was Johnny Holmes's chosen successor) will lead to a shakeup, with lots of ADAs promoted, demoted, resigning or being fired. [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 4:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Yeah, he presents that as an example of using Johnny Holmes’ stellar reputation to get away with anything. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 1:04 pm by Steve Hall
He, too, was found guilty of deliberately igniting fires in his home that killed his two sons, Danny, 4, and Johnny, 3, in 1985. [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 7:32 am by Jeff Welty
The jury quickly rejected Holmes’s claim of insanity. [read post]
12 Oct 2012, 11:15 pm by Alli Holzberg
Joan Watson, Detective Sherlock Holmes’ (Johnny Lee Miller) sober companion hired by his father. [read post]
30 Aug 2009, 12:58 am
Johnny Ray testified that his son had years of experience on dirt bikes and ATVs before the fatal accident. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 7:59 pm
Lykos would be the county's first female district attorney, succeeding Republicans Chuck Rosenthal and Johnny Holmes. [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 4:30 pm
Former DA Carol Vance and former DA Johnny Holmes come immediately to mind. [read post]
27 Feb 2022, 2:07 pm by John Floyd
Both cases were prosecuted by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office under the leadership of Johnny Holmes, a district attorney. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 4:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
 Another key, too-often neglected transparency issue: Former Harris County DA Johnny Holmes and the Texas Supreme Court, abetted by the Legislature after the fact, gutted the Law Enforcement exception (Govt Code 552.108) to the Public Information Act in Holmes v. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 4:48 pm by Rohit De
Next year there will be no Indian Empire, so that brand will become extinct- along with Johnnies and Helens and their ilk. [read post]
14 Apr 2013, 6:05 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Holmes: Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 5:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There was a time not long ago when she, Bill Hill in Dallas and Chuck Rosenthal in Houston formed a sort of unholy political triumvirate among big-city Texas prosecutors who promoted a highly politicized version of "tuff on crime," with DA John Bradley from Williamson County (like Rosenthal, an acolyte of former Harris DA Johnny Holmes) operating as their attack dog at the Lege along with their own lobbyists to portray tuff-on-crime demagoguery as reflective of the views… [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 5:15 am by Jeff Gamso
The Mets run, also in the 5th, came when Joe Christopher singled in Johnny Lewis. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 1:22 pm by John Floyd
”   Harris County DA’s Office in Need of Reform   The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has not known consistent “professionalism” since the 1970s when Johnny Holmes as elected as the county’s top law enforcement officer. [read post]