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1 Oct 2010, 12:08 pm
. :)In preparation what we'll call, for lack of a better name, Flawed Forensic Science Week, I'm listening to some of the video from the Senate Criminal Justice Committee's September 7 hearing on forensic science, the first topic up that day, featuring Harris County DA Pat Lykos pleading for state funds to create a first-class regional crime lab in Houston (as opposed to the noble but failing and overtaxed second class lab they have now, was always the implication). [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 5:54 am
"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]
9 Jan 2012, 9:30 am
Much more serious, clearly, is the grand jury's subpoena of DA Pat Lykos, which seems like a late Christmas present to Newman. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 8:44 pm
Pat Lykos announced the plan before it was fully formed. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 3:35 pm
[Edit: Jim Leitner and Pat Lykos say that they were not aware of the invitation. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 9:07 am
Second, criminals who may be identified through forensic testing are able to remain on the streets and, potentially, commit new crimes.HPD's backlog on processing fingerprints is currently 6,000 cases, reports Olson.Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos says in the article that the backlog argues for making the crime lab independent. [read post]
13 May 2013, 8:49 am
The first CIUs were established by DA Craig Watkins in Dallas and former DA Pat Lykos in Houston, and they have begun to pop up in other places. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 5:57 am
This could turn on DA Pat Lykos quickly and provide Murray Newman, who has already dubbed the event "Watergate on the Bayou," enough additional fodder to last the rest of his bloggerly days. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 9:18 am
Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos, instead of investigating the claims in the interest of serving justice, decided to take action against Culbertson and the horse she rode out on. [read post]
13 May 2013, 8:49 am
The first CIUs were established by DA Craig Watkins in Dallas and former DA Pat Lykos in Houston, and they have begun to pop up in other places. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 9:09 am
Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos said last year that she intended to seek the death penalty in several cases like Buntion's that have to be retried because an appeals court ruled the original juries were not able to properly consider defense evidence. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 8:08 pm
Pat Lykos brought some civil lawyers into the DA’s Office, people like The Lateral Hire. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 9:26 pm
Which, with all due respect to Pat Lykos, who signed the motion, and to my friends who actually wrote it, is a really boneheaded thing to put down on paper. [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 12:51 am
Reports the Houston Chronicle, "Now on the ballot are former felony court judge and former homicide detective Pat Lykos, assistant district attorney Kelly Siegler, defense lawyer and former prosecutor Jim Leitner and Doug Perry, who listed himself as a Houston police captain, lawyer and accountant. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 6:30 am
Houston City Councilmember Jolanda Jones had a column the other day echoing District Attorney Pat Lykos' call for an independent, regional crime lab removed entirely from under control of police and prosecutors. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 4:05 pm
A big problem: State jail time is served day for day so offenders - even those with mental illness or other reentry barriers - are not supervised and don't have access to services available to parolees.Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos readily (and surprisingly, to me) agreed, telling McReynolds that "state jails were ill-conceived from the very beginning. [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 1:27 am
District Attorney Pat Lykos insists that money should be no object: Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos said federal funding â€" even economic stimulus funding â€" should be used to help Houston clear the backlog of DNA cases and begin testing evidence in property crimes as quickly as the next six months. [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 6:14 am
Readers may recall that one-term Harris County DA Pat Lykos stopped charging "trace" cases as a felony, contributing to reduced jail crowding, but her opponent in the GOP primary, the current DA Mike Anderson, ran on a platform of charging those cases as felonies again. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 10:43 am
Rick Perry, current Attorney General Greg Abbott and Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos to intervene and stop the execution. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 8:29 am
" 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]
