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9 Feb 2012, 5:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“Keeping incompetent pretrial criminal defendants confined in county jail for unreasonable periods of time prior to being admitted to a state mental health facility or residential health facility violates the incompetent detainees’ due process rights as guaranteed by the Texas Constitution,” Naranjo wrote last month, ruling against the state in a civil case.Naranjo’s ruling comes as something of a wakeup call for the… [read post]
  As not all Texas counties have operating websites, counsel should contact the courts in those counties by telephone. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 8:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"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]
9 May 2012, 5:03 pm by Susan I. Nelson
The number of deportations from Travis County also exceeded that of nearby Bexar County, which includes San Antonio and has a larger overall population. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 8:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But that carrot was never accompanied by a stick, and departments that ignored revocation-reduction goals - notably Bexar and Collin, among larger counties - essentially faced no consequences. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 8:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But that carrot was never accompanied by a stick, and departments that ignored revocation-reduction goals - notably Bexar and Collin, among larger counties - essentially faced no consequences. [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 11:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
12 Oct 2011, 3:51 am by Bob Kraft
They should study why some states have uninsured rates that are nearly half of Texas’. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 2:58 am by Bob Kraft
They should study why some states have uninsured rates that are nearly half of Texas’. [read post]
15 Jul 2007, 12:47 am
Bexar's jail overcrowding nearly entirely results from failing to allow nonviolent misdemeanor defendants to receive personal bonds. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 8:38 am by Steve Hall
  Bexar and Travis Counties each accounted for three new death sentences since 2007. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 12:47 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
A bit more on slave patrols, which county commissioners courts were authorized to enact in the 1st Texas Legislature in 1846, the year after Texas became a state. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 3:05 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The result: county jail cost overruns is causing property tax hikes with no end in sight. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 6:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Let's set those disagreements aside, though, just for a moment.Here's what I want to know: As a practical matter, Texas is already talking about reducing prison capacity, and urban jails in Harris, Dallas, Hidalgo, Cameron, and Bexar are packed to the gills. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 4:44 pm
  This is significant to mention since a third offender would be facing up to ten years in the Texas Department of Corrections instead of one year in a county jail for a second DWI offense. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 4:44 pm
  This is significant to mention since a third offender would be facing up to ten years in the Texas Department of Corrections instead of one year in a county jail for a second DWI offense. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 9:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
7 May 2014, 2:42 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Bexar County jail population decliningSo says this TV news report.Hearne cop shot 93-year old womanReported the Waco Tribune Herald, "Authorities are investigating the shooting of a 93-year-old woman by a Hearne police officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of a Hearne man in December 2012. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 12:25 pm by Steve Hall
That's the title of an in-depth, three-day examination of Texas' indigent defense system, particularly in Hidalgo County in South Texas. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 3:56 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The State Auditor's Office has released a report on criminal justice information systems at the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Department of Criminal Justice, raising questions about the accuracy of criminal history data at both agencies. [read post]