The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' Criminal Justice Integrity Unit identified this issue in the early months after the law took effect.It makes no sense that these records would be secret at San Antonio PD and public if the same thing has happened to a Bexar County Sheriff's deputy, but that's how state law presently treats law enforcement disciplinary records. [read post]

To answer that question, one must recall the passage of the Michael Morton Act by the Texas Legislature in 2013, which strengthened requirements that prosecutors disclose exculpatory, mitigating, and impeachment evidence beyond minimalist requirements in federal precedents under Brady v. [read post]

In one case in San Antonio, a false conviction was overturned when police did not turn over video evidence of an officer assaulting a handcuffed defendant; instead, the defendant had pled guilty to assaulting the officer! [read post]

San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 (1985), or whether Garcia‘s approach has been overtaken by subsequent cases in which this Court has explicitly recognized judicially enforceable limits on Congress‘s power to interfere with state sovereignty; and (3) whether the Affordable Care Act‘s mandate that virtually every individual obtain health insurance exceeds Congress‘s enumerated powers and, if so, to what extent (if any) the mandate can… [read post]