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13 Sep 2011, 8:37 am
With killer Duane Buck just days away from execution, a prosecutor who helped send the Houston auto mechanic to death row has joined clergymen, lawyers and one of Buck's shooting victims in demanding that his life be spared.Linda Geffin, now chief of the Harris County Attorney's special prosecutions unit, was one of two assistant district attorneys who successfully argued against Buck in his 1997 trial. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 10:48 pm
Linda GeffinDuane Buck was tried and sentenced to die in 1997 in Harris County, Texas. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 3:08 pm
In an important development, a former assistant district attorney in Harris County, Texas on Friday sent a letter to members of the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles and other state officials — including Gov. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 10:43 am
Rick Perry , the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Attorney General Greg Abbott and current Harris County District Attorney Patricia Lykos. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 9:21 am
Perry, the Harris County District Attorney's Office and the Office of the Attorney General of Texas to intervene.All of these parties should act to ensure that an execution in Texas is not tainted by racism. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 5:15 am
By contrast, the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office said on Wednesday, "The Chief Medical Examiner serves at the pleasure of Commissioners court. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 6:02 am
An analysis considering privatization of the Harris County jail found much the same thing. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 7:27 am
The Harris County district attorney’s office has said it would not intervene. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 4:45 pm
Here's the background, via Trib reporter Lara Lapin:Buck was convicted in Harris County for the July 1995 shooting deaths of Debra Gardner and Kenneth Butler. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 12:52 pm
”)In addition, the authors found "widely varying standards for prenatal nutrition among jails," with Harris County, for example, allotting pregnant inmates 40% fewer calories than in El Paso. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 6:54 pm
New models of representation - including trial consulting offices and data-driven remedies to what I refer to as the “fire-hose” problem - are demonstrating the ability to drastically reduce new death sentences (even in places like Harris County, Texas). [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 7:36 am
And: Buck's lawyers also are asking that the Harris County district attorney's office and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott intervene to have Buck's execution date withdrawn. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 12:21 pm
“Such changes would have cost BP millions of dollars on a well that was already painfully over budget and behind schedule,” says the suit, filed in a Harris County, Texas, state court. [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 2:59 am
As has, hopefully, the "jail as profit center" myth among Texas county commissioners.See related Grits posts:Private prison bubble bursting: Empty, speculative jails in Texas Privatizing Harris County Jail would save money by cutting guard pay, benefits Jailing for profit spurs inmate releases in two Texas counties When fewer inmates is a big problem: Perverse incentives at the McLennan County Jail Jones… [read post]
3 Sep 2011, 11:03 pm
HI, MY NAME IS GEORGE I’M 22 YRS OLD, I LIVE IN HARRIS COUNT TEXAS BACK IN 2009 I WAS DRIVING THRU PEARLAND BRAZORIA COUNTY TEXAS WHEN A POLICE OFFICER STOPPED ME. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 7:32 am
But a seventh — Duane Edward Buck, convicted of a 1995 Harris County double murder — did not. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 4:00 pm
Four years after voters in Harris County, Texas, approved an $80 million budget to create a regional crime lab, the city of Houston is making slow progress toward joining the effort.Houston Mayor Annise Parker has said she wants the city to move away from having its own lab, and the city has begun sending about a dozen DNA samples a month for testing at the county lab. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 1:35 pm
Buck are also asking the Harris County District Attorney’s Office and the Attorney General of Texas to intervene and withdraw Mr. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 9:08 am
Now, Greg Willis is the District Attorney for Collin County, Texas — and yesterday, this new District Attorney filed a motion that is making the news: he’s requesting the criminal court judge remove the special prosecutors that John Roach had asked be appointed to the case, Assistant Texas Attorneys General Harry White and Brian Chandler, and that Judge Wooten’s case be prosecuted by someone totally new. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 3:55 pm
CORY WAYNE MAGEE, ET AL.; from Harris County; 1st district (01-07-00572-CV, 312 SW3d 807, 11-30-09) 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 that court.Per Curiam Opinion [pdf]Link to e-briefs: G & H TOWING CO. v. [read post]
