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30 Jan 2011, 5:35 am
A professional photographer and artist once told me the story about trying to photograph his mother. [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 9:13 am
A Nigerian prison guard has sued TDCJ complaining that racial discrimination was behind his firing over a false allegation of sexual misconduct.The Texas Tribune has a story about thousands of rape kits sitting around untested at Texas police crime labs.I failed last week to link to an interview in the Houston Chronicle with Alex Bunin, the new Harris County public defender.The Los Angeles Times has a feature on the nascent phenomenon of movement conservatives… [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 1:04 pm
Harry Henderson. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 6:40 am
" (MORE: From the Innocence Blog.)Cuts to mental health would burden local jailsAn analysis by Harris County of the proposed Texas House budget found that "cuts would transfer the burden onto a county government already contemplating hundreds of layoffs. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 7:54 am
Nowhere is that more evident than on mental health spending.See prior, related Grits posts:'Harris County jail not the place to treat mental illness' The making of an unfunded mandate: Cuts to mental health would dump costs on county jails Cuts to state mental hospitals would be massive unfunded mandate for county jailsMentally ill languish in Bexar jail awaiting assessment, competency restoration Cuts to state mental health treatment would shift costs… [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 1:52 pm
Well the misdemeanor judges of Harris County, Texas seem to have gotten together and made their own resolution for 2011...a slimmer docket for each of their courts. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 8:50 am
Two executions have been scheduled before then, including Timothy Adams of Harris County, and two others are slated for May and July. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 6:20 am
” Sabina Muhammed was convicted of violating § 33.02(a) and sentenced to “180 days confinement in the Harris County Jail, probated for two years. [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 11:09 am
The Real Reason for Abolition: Texas Poses Greatest Risk of Executing an Innocent By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair For two days in December of last year Harris County Criminal District Court Judge Kevin Fine allowed attorneys representing accused capital murderer John Edward Green to present evidence that the process for carrying out the death penalty in this state is so flawed that it creates an unconstitutional risk that an… [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 9:32 am
Earlier coverage of the Harris County hearing begins at the link. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 3:38 am
The general appropriations bill is typically filed in both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate, and a similar summary of the Senate version will be sent when it becomes available. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 11:10 am
Texas has lots of criminal courts, and Houston's Harris County has a number of folk presiding over the criminal bench -- but Judge Fine has become somewhat famous from that number because he had the temerity to take on the powers that be when he granted a single defense request for an evidentiary hearing in a pending murder case. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 4:46 am
Too busy doing heavy scholarly lifting on the subject of Harry Potter and Due Process at the Ministry of Magic? [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 7:38 am
Related posts are in the editorial index; more on the Harris County hearing in the Green case, at the link. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 4:23 pm
Earlier today, I finished reading Dave Cullen's Columbine, a deeply moving and startling dissection of during, before, and after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold wreaked their destruction at Columbine High School. [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 9:51 am
Fired Harris County Sheriff's deputy Richard Nutt was indicted for conspiring with three others to rob drug dealers. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 2:36 pm
John Whitmire, Harris County DA Pat Lykos, and Adam Gelb of the Pew Center on the States. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 6:22 am
The child wasn't even in Texas by then. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 10:48 am
Earlier coverage of the Harris County hearing begins with the post, "News Coverage of the Amicus Brief in Green. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 8:47 am
Use of jailhouse snitch testimony is fairly commonplace in Texas courts, but I'm not sure I've ever heard of jailhouse informants being processed through the Crime Stoppers program, which will begin happening soon in Harris County. [read post]
