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17 Aug 2018, 2:47 pm
With litigation in Harris County already dictating new rules for misdemeanants and the Dallas litigation over bail threatening to extend those requirements to felony defendants held pretrial, there's a lot more pressure for the Legislature to pass bail reform in 2019 than there was for the bill that failed last year. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
He said while his office oversees recounts, it does not directly participate in vote-counting, which is done at the county level. [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 1:00 pm
Defendant, an ex-convict: Cops didn't have reasonable suspicion that I unlawfully had a gun on me. [read post]
22 May 2018, 6:14 pm
In Comal County District Judge Jack Robison urged jurors to find a defendant not guilty of sex trafficking because God told him she was innocent. [read post]
19 May 2018, 10:49 am
"There are about two dozen forensic hypnotists in Texas at this time, the majority of whom serve in the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Rangers. [read post]
10 May 2018, 8:02 pm
Hammond testified that he became a partner and that he and Travis represented themselves as partners to the public as well to as the bar. [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 10:48 am
Most homeless youth in Dallas County are girls, and nearly 60% are black, a study found. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 9:49 am
Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits' readers attention:Galveston sued over bail scheduleACLU has sued Galveston County over its bail schedule, adding that county to Harris and Dallas as bail litigation sites. [read post]
15 Apr 2018, 2:59 pm
At this point the Office of Court Administration has automated a risk assessment tool and they are beta testing it with counties, so soon that will be available to counties across the state. [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 3:52 am
Here in Dallas, you most likely taken down to Lew Sterrett, the big Dallas County Jail down on West Commerce. [read post]
11 Mar 2018, 6:42 am
Such was the case with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, who released 1.476 million documents about a corruption probe to show his office was supporting public accountability. [read post]
9 Mar 2018, 6:00 am
According to Kevin Kolbye, assistant special-agent-in-charge of the FBI’s Dallas Division, during SWAT team raids, officers “are in a heightened state, the safety’s off and their finger is close to the trigger. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 2:46 pm
News sources indicate that county employees were unaware of the hazardous material in the building. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 2:46 am
After all this stuff happened, the public hearing didn’t go forward. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 2:46 am
After all this stuff happened, the public hearing didn’t go forward. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 1:48 pm
In Dallas and San Antonio, the action is in the Democratic Primary. [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 8:05 pm
In order to be considered for the First Offender Drug Program, a defendant must be approved by the Criminal District Attorney’s Office. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 7:07 am
Three Harris County magistrate judges were sanctioned by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for failing to grant personal bonds to low-risk defendants who deserve them, reported the Houston Chronicle, and their reaction seems, to this writer, tantamount to an admission of the allegations in the federal litigation pending at the 5th Circuit.The rebuke by the Texas Commission on Judicial Standards cites hearing officers Joseph Licata III, Jill Wallace and Eric… [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 2:17 pm
In an age when members of the public can no longer bestir themselves to leave their vaguely couch-shaped objects to purchase needful items in person, South Dakota v. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 11:40 am
To get a better sense of it all, Scott sat down with Brandi Grissom-Swicegood, a veteran news reporter and departing Austin bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News. [read post]
