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10 Jul 2007, 12:20 am
John Whitmire, Rep. [read post]
24 Apr 2007, 3:21 am
Whitmire's SB 823 which expands police wiretapping authrority. [read post]
26 Feb 2011, 9:12 am
I don't see how it's much different, or more defensible, than what the drug task forces were doing. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 5:26 am
We don’t always understand why things like this happen, but we know that God is in control. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 11:50 pm
We don’t always understand why things like this happen, but we know that God is in control. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 7:39 am
I was happy to see Chairman Whitmire's SB 1097 get through reducing penalties on the first offense for criminal trespass on residential property to a C misdemeanor, letting officers remain on the street reducing jail overcrowding.The committee backed Sen. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 8:10 am
State Reps James White and Garnet Coleman filed legislation to make this change last time, along with Senators John Whitmire and Konni Burton. [read post]
3 May 2007, 7:30 am
So what if they don't report, and have absconded? [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 1:30 am
(See the rest of this Grits post for a table detailing pretrial detention rates in larger Texas counties, most of which are well over 50%.)I don't believe this trend best serves public safety. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 12:17 am
Chairman John Whitmire of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee has been much less sanguine about such legislation, though he finds himself under great pressure in odd-numbered years to let at least a few of those bills pass. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 7:52 am
John Whitmire of Texas' 2007 probation reforms, while as chair of Criminal Jurisprudence, Pete Gallego was the House sponsor/author of several key innocence reforms including Texas' new eyewitness ID statute. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 9:29 am
Animated by these complaints, the police chiefs association reportedly is attempting to develop its own, watered-down policy to promote among its members in lieu of the official one.The first shot across the bow of LEMIT's model policy at the capitol came in a letter from McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez (uploaded here) to Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, offering a stream of red herrings and misinformation about the law and the new model policy. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 11:26 am
Again, I don't see why not. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 11:15 am
But, why don’t you talk a little about that. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 6:03 am
Rodney Ellis is carrying the first two on the senate side, while Senate Criminal Justice Chairman John Whitmire has filed a companion bill to HB 220. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 5:42 pm
In many cases, that is a far more severe sanction.Many people don't believe that a probation sentence can be a "far more severe sanction" than a prison sentence, but there are many reasons why that can be true. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 7:34 am
However, there’s also no strong reason to believe that they don’t work. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 4:40 pm
Most members of the commission don't do investigative work and need training, he says. [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 5:35 am
Whitmire's SB 838 which creates intermediate sanctions options for parole violators that should reduce overall parole revocation rates.As described here, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee this week approved SB 308 by Deuell to allow local governments to operate or approve nonprofit needle exchange programs.Finally, on the House floor next week (in addition to a bad bill, HB 1422, discussed previously), an important piece of legislation is up on Monday, HB 1178 by Escobar,… [read post]
27 Apr 2024, 10:02 am
Don’t be one of them. [read post]
