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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]
30 Nov 2011, 7:32 am
HVLP, founded in 1981, provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income Harris County residents, largely by placing their cases with volunteer lawyers throughout the Houston area. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 7:22 am
To date, 116 of Texas' 477 executions have originated from Harris County; 24%. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 9:07 am
-- cannot be answered in the affirmative," concluded Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun in 1994, abandoning any effort to provide judicial guidelines for executions. [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 9:58 am
Harris County officials have complained to Medicare for two years of widespread fraud by private EMS companies, but said they received no response. [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 7:01 pm
In affirming the decision of Harris County Probate Court Number One, the Court of Appeals affirmed that the discovery rule does not generally apply to will contests. [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 3:48 am
Harry Blackmun had his epiphany back in 1994, in Callins v. [read post]
20 Nov 2011, 8:34 am
The other two changes are at the county level beyond what can be accounted for by the three causes above: 4) the less-populous county opt-out—large effect; 5) the Harris County plunge—large effect.Of these, the least discussed factor is the "less-populous county opt out. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 2:05 pm
I had the pleasure of representing someone in a DWI trial last week in Harris County, Texas. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 7:50 am
In fact, over a period of several decades, Harris County sentenced more people to death than any other state, except for Texas as a whole. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 8:58 am
Also, University of Denver scholar Scott Phillips conducted a detailed examination of the role of race in Harris County death sentences. [read post]
