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24 Jul 2008, 4:38 pm
The police reports were investigated and submitted by the Harris County Police Investigation Department in August 1990 and tell the story of how Mr. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 2:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
In Harris County, the criteria to replace field drug testing include but are not limited to: contraband color, contraband texture, the presence of drug-related paraphernalia, demeanor of the suspect, and prior arrests and convictions involving controlled substances of the suspect. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 11:08 am by John Floyd
One of those lawsuits originated in Harris County, Texas. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 3:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
21 Aug 2009, 2:11 pm
Dogs will start reporting to the Harris County courthouse as early as next month. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 7:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are several items that merit Grits readers attention but haven't made it into individual posts:Craig Watkins' fumbling Dallas DA campaign Grits mentioned earlier that the Dallas, Harris and Bexar County DA's races interested me as potentially close, competitive toss-up races, in Bexar because a single donor dropped $600K on the Democratic challenger. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 6:27 am by Steve Hall
Harris County prosecutor Linda Geffin was working late last week when she took a break and saw a Facebook post from a Texas death row attorney whose client, Duane Buck, faced imminent execution. [read post]
5 Sep 2024, 4:00 am by Guest Blogger
Blackburn held a second full-time job while concurrently working at the now-defunct Harris County Elections Department. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 6:30 am
Texas' Harris County has 17 pending death-penalty cases, and officials there are undecided whether to seek death in 39 other murder cases. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 6:19 am by Jeff Gamso
Unless having the public learn the truth of capital punishment somehow harms the State, Harris County District Attorney Pat “Transparency” Lykos’s petition for mandamus should fail. [read post]
4 Apr 2018, 1:28 pm by Michael Busby
  He is familiar with the policy and procedures of the Harris and Fort Bend County Texas Divorce Courts. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 9:53 am
" ...Taylor, 48, has worked to reclaim his life in the eight months since a Harris County judge ordered him released from prison after DNA evidence cleared him of a 1993 Houston rape. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 1:08 pm by [email protected]
Tyler states in its publicity that Odyssey systems are used in courts’ case management systems in a number of jurisdictions in Texas including Dallas County and Harris County. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 1:08 pm by [email protected]
Tyler states in its publicity that Odyssey systems are used in courts’ case management systems in a number of jurisdictions in Texas including Dallas County and Harris County. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 6:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I don't have time to analyze each of them, but several different items related to indigent defense and public defender offices caught my attention recently:Justice Lite: Harris County should beef up its pilot public defender program, Houston Chronicle, editorial, June 20Congress must rewrite the law governing lawyers for poor death row inmates, Washington Post, June 21 Harris County's request for public defender grant in trouble, Houston Chronicle, June… [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 9:30 am
Dallas County has a history of using the ultimate punishment relatively sparingly while Harris County, until recently, earned a reputation for employing it frequently. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 8:06 am by Rachel Wright
In Texas, every county handles litigation differently. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 3:21 pm
Nonetheless, a Democratic sweep would have a salutary effect in Harris County. [read post]
6 Sep 2010, 10:40 am by Jeff Blackburn
Some counties like Harris will step up and do the right thing. [read post]