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8 Aug 2007, 9:57 am
Reporter Dave Maass gives Bexar County DA Susan Reed a well-deserved tongue-lashing in an' open letter in the new San Antonio Current. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 7:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Readers may recall this post from February suggesting that Bexar DA Susan Reed sought contempt charges against attorney Michael McCrum (for allegedly telling a witness to "get lost") in retaliation for court filings in other cases alleging misconduct by Reed and her office, including an alleged (and denied) sexual affair by Reed herself with a defendant in one of his cases.Since then, somewhat unthinkably, Susan Reed has been voted out… [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 9:19 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"I'm not a fan of Reed's other suggested DWI solution - "sobriety checkpoints" where every car is stopped at a roadblock regardless of whether there's reasonable suspicion. [read post]
4 Aug 2007, 12:44 am
Here's a good reason why Bexar County DA Susan Reed should relent and allow a needle exchange program to operate in San Antonio: It doesn't cost her a dime but could save the state and the county jail a boatload of money in future healthcare costs.Let's not lose sight of why needle exchange programs matter to the average non-drug using Texan: If we fail to prevent HIV and Hep C among IV drug users on the front end, taxpayers usually wind up paying many times that… [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 9:43 am by Matthew Huisman
A former Reed Smith partner has jumped to Nixon Peabody’s Washington, D.C. office, the firm announced Monday. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 1:44 am
The decision by the Bexar County DA to use needle exchange-related prosecutions for political grandstanding appears to be backfiring, at least to judge by the media response.National media are paying attention, and editorial boards around the state are beginning to take potshots at Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed's use of prosecutorial discretion to charge three Christian needle exchange activists with Class A misdemeanors instead of the Class C offense the officer… [read post]
31 Jan 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
As a Congressional Research Service report on the Office of Solicitor General ( “From Solicitor General to Supreme Court Nominee: Responsibilities, History, and the Nomination of Elena Kagan,” by Susan Navarro Smelcer and Kenneth R. [read post]
29 May 2013, 10:18 am
"Susan Sarandon comes to your deli, Lou Reed's in your kickboxing class, David Mamet flips you off, whatever, most New Yorkers really don't care." [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 11:12 pm
This is just mean-spirited and wrong:Bexar County DA Susan Reed thinks that a new Texas law allowing a needle exchange program to operate in Bexar County doesn't mean participants can't still be arrested. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 4:48 pm
As reported in the Houston Chronicle yesterday in Bexar DA calls execution justified, Bexar County DA Susan Reed has issued a report ... [read post]
28 Jan 2007, 9:31 am
Today's article in the San Antonio Express-News, Audit fault's DA's office over funds, is not directly related to Susan Reed's much maligned investigation into the prosecution of execution of Ruben Cantu, but it may say legions about the office. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 7:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
If I were managing Susan Reed's campaign, I'd have her shut in a room 12 hours per day dialing for dollars. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 12:08 am
Though health policy activists in Bexar County had swapped clean needles for dirty ones for years in San Antonio's poor neighborhoods, reports the Express News ("Syringe swap activists handed citations," Jan. 23):a San Antonio police officer cited Day, a 73-year-old retired commercial real estate appraiser and co-founder of the nonprofit group Bexar Area Harm Reduction Coalition, along with two board members, on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia… [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 8:44 am
I rolled back into town this afternoon to discover press coverage about a new report by Bexar County DA Susan Reed on the Ruben Cantu case (see prior Grits coverage) that, to me, shows why the Legislature should have acted this Spring to create an Innocence Commission to evaluate such cases.Cantu was executed 12 years ago, but the sole witness in the case recanted in 2005 saying his original eyewitness identification was coerced by police. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 7:21 am by NCC Staff
On President’s Day, C-SPAN President Susan Swain and National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen, along with constitutional scholars Akhil Reed Amar and Michael Paulsen launch the second season of the C-SPAN series, Landmark Cases: Historic Supreme Court Decisions, produced in collaboration with the National Constitution Center. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 7:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed, who herself was ousted earlier this month in the general election, threatened to prosecute volunteers who participated in the pilot, effectively rescinding the Legislature's permission under authority of the executive branch. [read post]
11 Oct 2012, 9:36 am by Susan Alker
This post was written by Reed Smith lawyers Susan Alker and Abbey Mansfield. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 5:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
LaHood's opponent Susan Reed (and many others I talked to) believed that voters would turn their noses up in disdain at one donor attempting to buy the DA's race, but I never thought that. [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 1:52 am
From the first, Susan Reed went out of her way to oppose implementation of the new law, declaring she would prosecute anyone engaging in a county-run needle exchange pilot. [read post]