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8 Feb 2011, 7:45 am
In Buntion's case, he could be sentenced to life under the law as it existed in 1990, which provides for the chance of parole.District Attorney Pat Lykos said she intends to seek the death penalty again on most of the cases. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 3:00 am
District Attorney Pat Lykos and Houston Mayor Annise Parker contend, that this video shouldn't be released as it's too "shocking and sickening" for our delicate sensibilities.Whether your stomach can take it is up to you. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 2:36 pm
John Whitmire, Harris County DA Pat Lykos, and Adam Gelb of the Pew Center on the States. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 12:31 pm
It's now up to the as-yet unindicted (this is Illinois) governor, Pat Quinn. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 8:47 am
Garcia says the money can be used by the inmate to post bond or pay an attorney.The jail will soon have monitors that flash Crime Stoppers contact information, in English and Spanish.Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos backs the program.According to the Chronicle, jailhouse snitches will get paid through the regular Crime Stoppers program "if the information results in the filing of felony charges or lead to an arrest, they will receive a reward up to $5,000. [read post]
1 Jan 2011, 7:44 am
Green's false conviction hinged on flawed eyewitness testimony, and his exoneration resulted in large part from work by Harris County DA Pat Lykos' post-conviction review unit.Sharon Keller's Expensive Acquittal: Without addressing the merits of the findings of fact against her, a three-judge panel appointed by the Texas Supreme Court ruled the state Commission on Judicial Conduct was unlawfully lenient in punishing the presiding judge of the state's… [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 7:52 am
But Smith's compromise is one I'm willing to make in exchange for the benefits of avoiding the Driver Responsibility surcharge, which is the biggest reason for the decline in DWI pleas, and to ease the overwhelming burden on county courts imposed by the massive case backlog.The bill would also have the benefit of clarifying the legality of the DIVERT program created by Harris County DA Pat Lykos, which has generated controversy in some quarters because of its essential… [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 8:09 am
In a statement about the brief, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos said the hearing in Fine's court is not "the proper forum for this particular constitutional challenge to the law. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 6:19 am
Unless having the public learn the truth of capital punishment somehow harms the State, Harris County District Attorney Pat “Transparency” Lykos’s petition for mandamus should fail. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 11:47 am
In State ex rel Lykos v. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:42 am
When Pat Lykos ran for the office of Harris County District Attorney, she promised that there would be a new day in the criminal justice system. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 8:41 am
District Attorney Pat Lykos called the decision to seek a death sentence "the gravest and most profound decision that a district attorney makes. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 2:40 am
In a move that's as sweepingly cynical as it is desperate, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos has gotten the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, on its second bite, to shut down the hearing in the capital case of John Green. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 7:32 pm
" Here's a timeline of the Harris County District Attorney's Office attempts to derail the hearing: In April, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos filed a motion asking Judge Kevin Fine to be recused. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 7:57 am
Pat Lykos is ordering her subordinates to play games. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 10:39 pm
Brian Rogers, in the Houston Chronicle, described that decision, made by the elected prosecutor, Pat Lykos as alast-ditch strategy to end state District Judge Kevin Fine's judicial inquiry into the procedures surrounding the state's death penalty statute. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 6:47 pm
Because, however Pat Lykos wants to treat it, this is not a game. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 1:16 am
Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos was elected on the theme that she would introduce “reform” to the district attorney’s office and put an end to the often illegal and unethical practices of the “convict at any cost” which hallmarked the former administrations of Charles “Chuck” Rosenthal and his predecessor Johnny Holmes. [read post]
20 Nov 2010, 6:16 am
That was the choice of local elected officials.In any event, whether new DA Pat Lykos has quit asking for the extra jail time as frequently or judges have smartened up and started refusing it, I cannot say, but as of Nov. 1 there were just 350 inmates in the Harris County jail who'd been convicted of state jail felonies and were serving time as a condition of probation. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 8:26 am
One solution he advocates is forensic labs that are independent of law-enforcement agencies - a policy wholeheartedly endorsed by Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos, who has been fighting for just such a regional, independent lab in Houston. [read post]
