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13 May 2014, 2:25 pm by Michael Lowe
Lowe’s client was charged with Injury to a Child, Serious Bodily Injury, a second degree felony in Potter County, Amarillo, Texas. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 6:14 am by Bryan Fears
n Tuesday a settlement was reached between Potter County and a Texas family in the wrongful death lawsuit brought over the death of an inmate. [read post]
14 Jun 2008, 9:02 am
An all-woman jury yesterday in Amarillo brought back a guilty verdict against Potter County Sheriff Mike Shumate for taking bribes from the Dallas-based commissary manager, Mid-America Services. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 6:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As of May 1st, according to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, a whopping 66% of Potter County Jail inmates were incarcerated awaiting trial, compared to 53% statewide. [read post]
12 May 2020, 9:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Potter County would have been better off paying and calling it the cost of an education, and I suspect, when all is said and done, the same will turn out to be true for the Texas Office of Court Administration. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 4:09 am
(Thankfully, commissaries in adult Texas prisons are operated by TDCJ.)It's clear that Texas needs to perform a comprehensive investigation/audit of county jail commissary contracts statewide. [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 5:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
So we’re going to give them more time to go do something else (illegal),” said Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas. [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 8:21 am
Potter and Randall counties, therefore, have joined with nearly two dozen other West Texas counties in an effort to reduce the cost of trying defendants charged with the most serious criminal offense the state provides. [read post]
29 Nov 2019, 8:45 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Potter County contains most of Amarillo, while Armstrong is a nearby, very rural county with very few lawyers, an 8-bed jail, and no municipal police departments. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 3:04 pm
The Associated Press reports that Harris County is the most dangerous county in Texas for railway accidents, according to a report released Thursday by the Texas Relocation and Improvement Association. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 10:31 am by John McFarland
Texas Water Development Board, was filed in Travis County in April. [read post]
12 Jul 2009, 5:00 am
The suit named Potter County, members of the medical staff and several jailers as defendants. [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
E.g., Randall County's incarceration rate per 10,000 was 31.7; next door in Potter County it was 76.5 (Amarillo straddles the county line). [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 7:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
While I was away, most Texas counties approved their annual budgets and one of the big criminal justice growth areas in recent years for many of them has been rising indigent defense costs - a function of increased state regulation and the fact that the number of new cases has continued to rise (inexplicably) despite crime declining across the state.In 2009, Texas counties spent a total of $186,307,540 on indigent defense, more than a 109% increase from 2001 when… [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 6:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits would like to see Texas rationalize this mess by 2020 as well, but as long as the topic is considered through the lens of state-level partisanship instead of county-level pragmatism, changing it in the near future would be an uphill climb. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 10:56 am by Press Release
Sheriff’s Office in the Texas panhandle notes many of those involved were “unlawfully in the United States” in yet one more case of trafficking of animals for fighting tied to the border crisis in America. [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 1:38 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Enjoy:Here's what's on deck this month:IntroChristmas Poem: "If The Whos Were Us"Top StoriesWhy high fines and fees are a plague on the criminal-justice system.Musical interlude: Debtors Prison BluesWhat recent Texas innocent cases tell us about needed policy reforms.Year in Review: Fill in the BlankBail reform in Harris CountyAbolition of the Driver Responsibility surchargeTexas Legislature unintentionally decriminalizes marijuanaMore prosecutors going after cops in… [read post]
18 Jul 2008, 7:38 am
POTTER; from Harris County; 1st district (01-06-01042-CV, ___ SW3d ___, 04-03-08)(billboard lease)No. 08-0414ERIC H. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 8:03 am by Steve Hall
Balentine would join 12 Potter and Randall county defendants executed since 1982, when Texas reinstated the death penalty. [read post]