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18 Dec 2011, 10:57 am
(The state's biggest jail in Harris County is the iconic example, among many others.) [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 11:52 am
CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS; from Harris County; 1st district (01-04-00548-CV, 264 SW3d 31, 08-09-07) Pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 59.1, after granting the petition for review and without hearing oral argument, the Court reverses the court of appeals' judgment and remands the case to the trial court. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 8:56 am
" The state's highest criminal court sent the cases of Steven Butler and John Matamoros back to Harris County courts to re-evaluate the evidence used to sentence the two men to death. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 5:55 pm
Contesting a will in Texas, including Collin, Dallas, Tarrant, Harris and surrounding counties [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 8:51 am
Once again, just six counties in the state of Texas accounted for the new death row inmates: Fort Bend (1); Galveston (1); Harris (3); Harrison (1); Tarrant (1); and Travis (1). [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 9:21 am
Jones said the county would need the additional space regardless of the shift of state offenders to counties. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 9:53 pm
Harris County v. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 10:52 am
Texas Industrial Specialties, Inc. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 10:50 am
The family of a man who died in a Houston hospital as a result of negligent medical and nursing care has been awarded $2.2 million by a Harris County court. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 6:41 am
A report on the most recent Commission meeting mentioned that, "the Commission voted to approve Harris County’s application for 720 variance beds, an application that was opposed by two Texas legislators. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 8:29 am
Here are a few disparate items for Grits readers' Sunday morning reading pleasure:Eyewitness wrong, life sentence overturned: LaDondrell Montgomery was convicted of robbery in Harris County and given a life sentence based on eyewitness testimony and video footage of the incident, but his lawyer figured out after his conviction that he was in jail at the time the offense was committed, reported the Houston Chronicle this week. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 8:49 am
To borrow a phrase from Judge Michael McSpadden, speaking recently of Harris County DA Pat Lykos, Keith Hampton and I "are not close, and in fact probably don't like each other," but he'd be a welcome breath of fresh air on the court if he pulled off the longshot upset. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 3:23 am
“It’s not a big surprise,” said Harry Kepner of Plano, a member of the Regional Aging Advisory Committee, which represents 14 counties in north central Texas. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 5:47 am
“Dallas County has been on the honor system a long time,” Watkins said.One notable factibite that doesn't get enough attention when discussing the merits of commercial bail bonds: Cathy Braddock at the Harris County DA's office told the reporters that "in about 90 percent of forfeiture cases, the bondsmen played no role in the rearrest ... [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 5:54 am
A few Sunday morning odds and ends:Debating the legality of D.I.V.E.R.T.The 14th Court of Appeals said a Harris County judge was within his realm of discretion to refuse to use DA Pat Lykos' much-heralded D.I.V.E.R.T. program on DWI cases because it amounts to deferred adjudication, which is illegal for DWI under current Texas law. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 7:22 pm
An agreed expunction requires the agreement not only of the Harris County DA (who currently takes the position that DIVERT is legal and can be expunged) and the defendant (who will never oppose it), but also of the lawyers for the Texas Department of Public Safety. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 7:19 pm
The Harris County efiling rules approved by the Texas Supreme Court in 1991 appear to have been amended in 1993 (pdf), though, and if the judges had based their order on this version of the rules efiling would be allowed until 9 p.m. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 5:25 pm
As a CASA volunteer in Harris County, Texas, I have witnessed this first hand – Teenagers who are on at least two different powerful psychotropic medications, but are not receiving consistent therapeutic services. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 1:39 pm
A recent analysis by the Houston Chronicle found that 12 of the last 13 defendants who got the death penalty in Harris County were black. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 3:50 am
The latest report from the Houston Chronicle's Lise Olsen ("Nearly 400 capital murder convicts get life without parole," Nov. 29) confirms precisely Grits fears since the LWOP law was created:In six years, Texas has built a "lifer's row" filled with 398 prisoners who will never be released through parole - a fast-growing group that already has outpaced the number of inmates serving a death sentence in the Lone Star State, a Houston Chronicle analysis of… [read post]
