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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]
10 Jan 2011, 10:00 pm
Galveston firefighters took over lifesaving maneuvers once the ship docked, and an ambulance took Smock to the University of Texas Medical Branch, and was pronounced dead at 1:37 p.m., according to the Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 9:34 am
"A voice for the poor in court," is the title of Brian Rogers' interview with Harris County Public Defender Alex Bunin. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 11:55 am
" At the Harris County Jail they plan to begin experimenting with ankle monitors and home detention for pretrial defendants. [read post]
8 Jan 2011, 7:15 am
This happened in the 1983, Texas Supreme Court case styled, Dairyland County Mutual Insurance Company of Texas v. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 10:54 am
But these data show some Texas counties have identified ways to reduce those numbers, and Bexar could, too. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 6:50 pm
The Ultimate Memorial has published a very brief article about Texas legal assistant Donald Spencer’s recent lawsuit (Case No. 2010-83448), filed in Harris County District Court against his former employer, real estate law firm Ross, Banks, May, Cron & Cavin, and a collection agency, GC Services, but one allegation in particular caught my eye: Spencer, a legal assistant, says that in July of 2009, he was discharged from his position because, among other things,… [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 9:05 am
We are heartened by figures showing that Texas and Harris County juries are sending fewer defendants to death row. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 4:18 am
In most states, including Harris County, Texas, a judge is on standby at these coordinated DWI traffic stops prepared to sign a warrant permitting the police to take a blood sample if a suspected DWI driver refuses to take the standard breathalyzer. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 9:46 am
They fear that cuts by the Legislature to mental health services will further shift costs to Harris County (and by extension, all counties), citing a similar outcome after budget cuts in 2003:A prime example of cost shifting has occurred within the Harris County Jail, now the largest mental health facility in Texas. [read post]
1 Jan 2011, 7:44 am
Legislation has been filed to abolish the surcharge.Creation of a Harris County Public Defender Office: Harris County includes the nation's 4th largest city and more people than 20+ US states, so the creation of a public defender office there marks a major expansion in the number of indigent defendants with access to public defender services. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 7:00 pm
[name withheld], the mother of 26-year-old twins, has been charged with capital murder and is being held without bond in Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas. [read post]
