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9 Feb 2020, 7:38 am
Bexar County DA Joins Reformers But Bexar County, Texas progressive district attorney, Joe Gonzales, is undeterred. [read post]
26 Oct 2019, 7:47 am
Operation North Star in Harris County began in April 2017 and the San Antonio Violent Crime Task Force (Operation Alamo) in San Antonio and Bexar County began in January 2017, with DPS joining the operation in May 2017. [read post]
30 Jun 2019, 8:51 am
But that's a useful figure because, as regular readers know, probation revocations are a significant cause of Texas prison admissions, and revoked misdemeanor probationers go to county jail, contributing to local costs. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 1:11 pm
The appointed attorney for Janice Dotson-Stephens - the schizophrenic grandmother who died in the Bexar County jail over the holidays - never once visited her in the five months she sat in jail on a $300 misdemeanor bond. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 4:37 am
People beat up on the daily press, including me sometimes, but we all rely on them.Ignored to DeathFrom Michael Barajas at the Texas Observer: "Ignored to death at the Bexar County Jail. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 7:32 am
AJC also recommended funding independent investigation of police officer misconduct and paying for a one-year study process to determine whether the city make the Austin PD crime lab independent.Details on Harris County's state-jail diversion courtAt the joint House Corrections-Criminal Jurisprudence Committee hearing yesterday, Harris County District Judge Brock Thomas discussed specialty court they've used to keep from sending as many people for… [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 11:22 am
For more background on why this is needed, check out an excellent, extended article on flawed forensics published in Congressional Quarterly last year.Eliminating Class C arrests could resolve Bexar jail beefThe biggest beef between the San Antonio PD and Bexar County over whether the PD will use the county's new jail intake facility is maintaining a space for processing Class C misdemeanor arrests. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 9:49 am
Hecht was introduced to the debtors prison issue thanks to the USDOJ's report on overreliance on fine revenue out of Ferguson, Missouri, he told Levin.Murder-insurance program notches LWOP verdictThe Regional Capital Public Defenders Office, which provides representation in capital cases for counties that participate in its so-called "murder insurance" program, won a life-without-parole verdict recently in a case involving the murder of a San Antonio Police officer - the… [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 6:09 pm
Texas has an Access to Justice Commission; but don’t be fooled. [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 11:30 am
Give it a listen:See a recent link roundup here related to these DA races (evaluating primaries in Dallas, Bexar, McLennan, Smith, Walker, Victoria, Denton, Smith, and Galveston counties). [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 8:05 pm
Specialty Courts in Texas There are over 140 specialty court programs in Texas. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 3:29 pm
That would be a seismic shift on the state's highest criminal court.Going gets weird in Bexar DA raceThe two big DA races to watch in the Texas primaries are both on the Democratic side, in Bexar and Dallas counties. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 7:56 am
An East Texas man was arrested after taking an electric cart from Wal-Mart and then driving it on a state highway out of town. [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 1:33 pm
On July 9, 2015, Judge Laura Salinas of the 166th Civil District Court in Bexar County, Texas entered an order denying Cash Biz’s motion to enforce arbitration and waiver-of-class-action provisions in the underlying loan documents (not involved in the criminal case). [read post]
31 May 2017, 8:11 am
Last week, she was indicted for the murder of that baby on December 12, 1981, by the Bexar County Grand Jury, according to a news release issued by the Bexar County District Attorney on May 25, 2017. [read post]
8 May 2017, 10:15 am
Detainers, now mandatory under state law, will clog our jails. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 2:27 pm
According to Jim Bethke of the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, currently only "Bexar County has a similar program - and that is tailored to offenders with mental-health conditions. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 12:10 pm
Tarrant County District Courts Bexar County District Courts Collin County District Courts Dallas County District Courts Denton County District Courts Harris County District Courts Johnson County District Courts Parker County District Courts The post Court Appointed Attorneys in Texas | Should you use a court-appointed attorney? [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 5:05 am
Bexar County estimated an annual cost of between $8.2 million and $8.5 million to implement the change. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 8:59 am
"Contemplating collateral consequences Noting that more than 7,000 felons return to Bexar County every year, the SA Express-News published a good story recently on collateral consequences from felony convictions. [read post]
