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8 Jan 2019, 4:37 am
People beat up on the daily press, including me sometimes, but we all rely on them.Ignored to DeathFrom Michael Barajas at the Texas Observer: "Ignored to death at the Bexar County Jail. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 9:06 am
Gravely as State Bar director for District 10 (Bexar County), Place 1. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 1:00 pm
Allegation: Bexar County, Tex. jail officer beat up inmate. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 12:54 pm
Ex parte Thompson was a criminal case out of Bexar County, Texas. [read post]
22 Nov 2018, 9:11 am
Bexar County Commissioners voted 3-1, with Elizondo abstaining, to approve the selection of a new veterans service office director and cut Rodriguez's position. [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 10:00 am
“Pete” Onion, had been a longtime Bexar County district judge. [read post]
14 Oct 2018, 12:26 pm
Based on the intoxication finding of the blood draw, Briggs was arrested and indicted by a Bexar County grand jury. [read post]
30 Sep 2018, 7:40 am
Here are a few odds and ends that deserve Grits readers' attention:Top Bexar jailer resigns amidst crime spree by subordinatesThe SA Express-News reported that the top supervisor at the Bexar County Jail has resigned "amid a troubling year for the Sheriff’s Office, which has struggled with escape attempts from the jail and the arrest of 20 deputies on a variety of criminal charges, including domestic abuse, assaulting inmates and driving while intoxicated. [read post]
24 Sep 2018, 2:01 pm
Some bookshelves have been installed and others are being installed in courthouses in Fort Bend, Dallas, and Collin counties, with plans in store for expansion of the program in Smith, Tom Green, Menard, Anderson, Austin, Bexar, Howard, El Paso, and Harris counties. [read post]
11 Sep 2018, 10:50 am
Here's what he says that will mean for drivers with revoked licenses:If cited (not arrested) by police, you will be charged with a Class C instead of B If you plead guilty and get your license and insurance renewed w/in 6 months the charge is dismissedEarlier this summer, the Austin Statesman reported that, "The number of Class B misdemeanors filed last year in Travis County — 3,425 — was three times higher than the combined total in Bexar,… [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 7:32 am
All that's a credit to Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson, who personally made the closing arguments in Roy Oliver's case. [read post]
29 Aug 2018, 3:42 pm
This year, the subcommittee considered candidates from non-metropolitan counties (all counties except Bexar, Dallas, Harris, Tarrant, and Travis), according to State Bar rules. [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 12:05 pm
" But "unique" is not the right word because in 2014, Bexar County elected a former drug dealer with a felony conviction as its District Attorney, so the precedent was already set. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 11:22 am
For more background on why this is needed, check out an excellent, extended article on flawed forensics published in Congressional Quarterly last year.Eliminating Class C arrests could resolve Bexar jail beefThe biggest beef between the San Antonio PD and Bexar County over whether the PD will use the county's new jail intake facility is maintaining a space for processing Class C misdemeanor arrests. [read post]
23 Jun 2018, 3:39 pm
What Bexar County needs is a full-blown public defender office, and not just for mental-health cases.Harris County judges rubber stamp DA findings in capital writsIn 96 percent of state capital habeas cases since 1995, judges in Harris County simply adopted proposed findings of fact written by the prosecution, according to this analysis from the Houston Law Review. [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 8:51 am
The Archers nonsuited the guardianship proceeding in Blanco County and refiled it in Bexar County. [read post]
25 May 2018, 2:58 am
Singer, Cato, more] Texas: “Opioid lawyers pumped $110K into LaHood’s campaign after Bexar County DA hired them” [David Yates, Southeast Texas Record] “State senator working with Watts on home turf opioid lawsuit, lawyers billing Hidalgo County $3,800 an hour” [SE Texas Record] “Cities Vs. [read post]
19 May 2018, 7:42 am
“A Supreme Court ruling on June 26, 2015 and the joyous, loving events that followed”: Judge Karen Pozza of the 407th Civil District Court in Bexar County, Texas has this essay online at The San Antonio Express-News. [read post]
7 May 2018, 3:09 pm
Really, it's sort of old hat.Both R and D Bexar DA candidates back needle exchangeThe needle exchange pilot in San Antonio, discussed here, not only has the support of the outgoing District Attorney, but also "the two candidates seeking to replace him in November," reported the Express-News. [read post]
1 May 2018, 10:08 am
Caseloads also began to rise slightly after 2014.Bexar, El Paso, and Collin Counties saw big one-year spikes in their numbers of probationers revoked to TDCJ from FYs 2016 to 2017: Increases were 20.1%, 29.7%, and 28.2%, respectively.Overall, about a quarter of probationers with the shortest probation sentences (up to two years) were revoked last year: "Revocations accounted for 38.9% of those offenders terminating community supervision with a probation length of up to two… [read post]
