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31 Oct 2007, 12:06 am
Wanting to incarcerate youth longer than the SB 103 allows, the Houston Chronicle reports that DA Chuck Rosenthal anticipates increasing the number of certifications sought to try teenagers as adults ("More youth are tried as adults in Harris County," Oct. 28):Harris County accounts for half of all underage teens in the state's adult prisons, despite youths here accounting for just 15 percent of all juvenile crime in Texas, according to a review of state and local… [read post]
26 May 2016, 7:22 am
" (See earlier Chronicle coverage.) [read post]
18 May 2018, 11:06 am
SANTA FE, Texas – At least 9 people died Friday morning in gunfire at Santa Fe High School, law enforcement officials confirmed, while area hospitals reported at least a dozen others were injured. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 9:00 am
Today, the Texas Nationalist Movement is kicking off their "Take Texas Back Tour," with speaking dates booked at hotels and other venues throughout North, East and Central Texas. [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 10:00 am
A University of Texas professor said Friday that she was "disgusted" on an American Airlines flight as the crew, fearing the spread of Ebola, kept a woman who had vomited shut in the plane's bathroom. [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 8:42 am
"Texas man set to die for 1993 double slaying," is the title of Michael Graczyk's AP report via the Houston Chronicle.Forty-five-year-old Gerald Eldridge is set for lethal injection Tuesday evening for a shooting spree that also left his son and another man wounded.Eldridge's lawyers argue in appeals to courts that Eldridge is delusional and clueless about his punishment. [read post]
19 May 2009, 6:59 pm
AP has this report on the execution of Michael Riley, via the Houston Chronicle.An East Texas man apologized repeatedly Tuesday as he was executed for fatally stabbing a convenience store clerk during a robbery more than two decades ago. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 11:15 pm
Also, Landry's general counsel, Steven Scheinthal, gave an interview to the Houston Chronicle earlier this week that resulted in this rather interesting article in which he was quoted as saying that "We do not believe the bondholders are nice people. [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 2:52 pm
Kudos to the Houston Chronicle's Lisa Falkenberg for the first MSM coverage ("Area prosecutors interpret duties to justice differently," March 18) since the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals began tossing out convictions based on the fraudulent performance of Jonathan Salvador, who was fired from the DPS crime lab in Houston last year after it was discovered he faked results in identifying Alprazolam tablets. [read post]
18 Nov 2017, 8:19 am
At the Houston Chronicle, St. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 6:02 am
The Houston Chronicle's Lisa Falkenberg - whose reporting on conflicts of interest in Houston grand juries involving shootings by police helped launch the current effort to end the pick-a-pal method of selecting grand jurors - has published an op ed (Feb. 10) articulating what, in her view, grand jury reform must look like beyond random selection to solve problems witnessed from H-Town to Ferguson, MO. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 8:46 am
" Kevin Diaz of The Houston Chronicle reports that "Supreme Court looks at race in Houston death penalty case. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 9:09 am
(Reported the Houston Chronicle, "Homicide detectives [in Houston] solved 89 percent of homicides in 2011. [read post]
3 Apr 2016, 2:51 pm
" Her observations remind me of a Houston Chronicle piece published last month titled "Proposed bail reforms offer support to the ill. [read post]
20 Aug 2015, 6:12 am
The Houston Chronicle reported (Aug. 19) on a change in the law which received little publicity. [read post]
27 May 2013, 6:31 am
So in retaliation, I authored an op ed against his wiretap expansion bill in the Houston Chronicle and shared it with the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee staff, submitted written testimony against the bill at the public hearing on the House side, and visited with committee members' offices behind the scenes to scuttle Frazier's pet legislation. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 7:00 am
They include Patricia George, 34 years old and diagnosed with schizophrenia; she has been charged with 31 misdemeanors and 12 felonies and has already spent nine years in jail (Houston Chronicle, July 21, 2008).Texas is among the states with the lowest number of public psychiatric beds and among the stingiest states in per capita mental health spending. [read post]
13 May 2013, 3:54 pm
SEE MORE: From the Texas Tribune, Dallas News, and the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 6:19 pm
A DPS supervisor in Conroe, "Glenn Merkord was suspended for 30 days this month for renewing certifications for machine operators who had not fulfilled all of the requirements for certification, according to a letter the Department of Public Safety sent Merkord notifying him of his punishment," reported the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 1:42 pm
Presiding Judge Sharon Keller on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had her record $100K ethics fine knocked down by three quarters, but neither the Ethics Commission nor the Attorney General will explain why, reported the Houston Chronicle ("Keller settles record ethics fine," Aug. 10)Sharon Keller, the state's top criminal court judge, has reached a deal to substantially reduce a record $100,000 fine levied by the Texas Ethics Commission for failing to fully disclose millions… [read post]
