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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Harris County district attorney's office and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott intervene to have Buck's execution date withdrawn.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]
29 Aug 2011, 3:47 pm
I do find it amusing that this motion is "State of Texas v. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 2:44 pm
As an added bonus, though, 21.15 is little-enough understood that most charging instruments in Harris County alleging recklessness or negligence don’t comply with the statute, which gives me something to litigate and a chance to control the tempo of the conflict. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 5:11 am
This blog has long criticized the state's de facto use of county jails as mental health wards, and particularly Texas' failure to provide timely "competency restoration" services when a defendant is deemed incompetent to stand trial. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 8:21 am
Admissibility of Unreliable Identification Evidence By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair According to the New York-based Innocence Project, 75 percent of the nation’s 273 DNA exonerations involved eyewitness misidentification—and according to Harris County state senator Rodney Ellis, a longtime advocate of eyewitness identification reform, 86 percent of Texas’ 45 DNA exonerations (the most in the nation) involved… [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 8:10 am
Records were destroyed as ordered at Harris County Courthouse and most locations though missed in a couple locations, microfiche backup copy in basement of Texas Dept of Public Safety (TDPS) and arrest record at Houston Police. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 7:36 am
Moreno’s 2005 sexual abuse case was headed by the Harris County District Attorney’s office in Houston, Texas. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 9:41 pm
The Texas attorney general sued Yolanda Salazar Perez and her “church,” Nueva Uncion, or the New Anointing Biblical Institute, and three of her alleged cohorts, who are members of her family, in Harris County Court. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 11:03 pm
I beleive that the City of Houston /Harris County needs to be sewed for what they have done to me and fix the problem that they lied about and that has cost me my savings do to low paying jobs & many great carreer opportunities, I just lost another opportunity at a well paying job because of this. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 12:33 pm
-based company — whose closest location is in Texas — filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Grab-N-Go this week in U.S. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 9:00 am
State Of Texas and Wise County, Texas, No. 09-0905. [read post]
