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11 Dec 2011, 8:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Charging paraphernalia cases in Houston: Check out a coupla new items on the Pat Lykos crack-pipe policy controversy (see Grits' discussions here and here) from Patti Hart and Paul Kennedy. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 8:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
To borrow a phrase from Judge Michael McSpadden, speaking recently of Harris County DA Pat Lykos, Keith Hampton and I "are not close, and in fact probably don't like each other," but he'd be a welcome breath of fresh air on the court if he pulled off the longshot upset. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 9:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Pat Lykos and I are not close, and in fact probably don't like each other, but she's right about this," the veteran jurist said this week. [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 5:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"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]
1 Dec 2011, 5:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In what was pretty clearly an orchestrated one-two punch, this week six Houston-area police unions issued no-confidence votes against Harris County DA Pat Lykos just before their new candidate darling, former District Judge Mike Anderson, announced his candidacy for DA yesterday, running against Lykos in the GOP primary. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 2:26 pm by Steve Hall
You can read the complete letter signed by more than 60 community leaders, calling on Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos to take positive action in the case; coverage of the letter is at the link. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 7:50 am by Steve Hall
In January 2009, when Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos took office, she lost no time in making good on her campaign promise to restore that department's integrity, left in tatters by her disgraced immediate predecessor. [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 12:34 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
David Jennings thinks the allegations against Harris County DA Pat Lykos amount to a witch hunt, while Mark Bennett thinks Lykos has more to account for than she's done so far. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 7:48 am by Steve Hall
The letter from community leaders to Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos is available in Adobe .pdf format. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 1:45 pm by admin
Then Harris County commissioners, at the recommendation of District Attorney Pat Lykos’ staff, canceled a contract with a Lone Star Laboratory that has performed breathalyzer analysis for the sheriff’s office for decades. [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 7:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That appears to be what's happening in Houston as a grand jury investigates whether DA Pat Lykos retaliated against a whistleblower from the Houston PD crime lab. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 12:21 pm by Jeff Gamso
  (Mark Bennett made a similar point about Pat Lykos's office a few days ago, but that's not my point, either.) [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 12:11 pm by Lawrence Taylor
 Oct. 28 – A day after the revelation that her office is the target of a grand jury investigation, District Attorney Pat Lykos was called to testify Thursday in an ongoing DWI trial because she made public comments regarding the accuracy of results from the Houston Police Department’s troubled mobile breath-testing vehicles. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 4:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For whatever reason, when flawed forensics are exposed the case is seldom as simple as the science.In the Harris County B.A.T. van case, the Houston Chronicle today reports that DA Pat Lykos herself has been called to testify before a grand jury that's apparently investigating Brady violations (withholding exculpatory evidence) in addition to retaliatory termination regarding whistleblower Amanda Culbertson who exposed flawed forensics on mobile DWI testing units. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 7:58 pm by Mark Bennett
" 4 October 2011: Amanda Culberson's new employer, Lone Star College, loses its contract with Harris County, apparently at Pat Lykos's behest. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 5:56 pm by Jeff Gamso
Lykos, if you don’t trust HPD to tell you the truth about DWI testing, why do you trust HPD to tell you the truth about anything? [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 12:21 pm by Lawrence Taylor
District Attorney Pat Lykos was thrown out of the grand jury room earlier this week under the threat of arrest. [read post]