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6 Dec 2010, 2:36 am by Kelly
(IPBiz) US Patents USPTO extends deadline for Patent Application Exchange Program (Patent Docs) US Patents – Decisions District Court E D Texas: In an ‘exceptional’ case, court orders production of negotiations leading to license agreements: Clear with Computers, LLC v. [read post]
5 Dec 2010, 5:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 Second, Texas allows the introduction of confessions that have been obtained without safeguards to protect against false confessions.Third, use of informant testimony is largely unregulated in Texas.Fourth, pervasive flaws have been identified in the analysis of presentation of forensic evidence that result in unreliable results.Fifth, pretrial  discovery procedures are inadequate to safeguard against the prosecution's suppression of evidence favorable to the accused.Sixth,… [read post]
4 Dec 2010, 10:01 pm by Tom K.
But the defining moment for Braeburn came almost 60 years after its creation when the club entered into a creative deal with the Harris County Flood Control District in which the district allowed the club to use almost $2.5 million in funds earmarked for flood control to renovate the course in a manner that transformed it into a flood runoff area for a nearby bayou during periods of heavy rains. [read post]
3 Dec 2010, 8:04 am by Steve Hall
(Texas Defender Service, p. 48) Sixth, Texas prosecutors in Harris County and elsewhere have a shameful history of excluding African Americans from juries. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 1:40 pm by Herman Martinez
   Also, in Houston, Harris County, Texas there was a case where a supervisor of several machines was convicted of tampering with them  Even more recently, an Arizona police officer that was in charge of the machine has been suspended for falsifying the records that accompanied the machine. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 12:57 pm by Steve Hall
Of the 316 people on Texas' death row, more than a third are from Harris County. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 10:39 am by Steve Hall
Harris County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the case. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 12:46 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
.'Shock probation' granted in DWI death caseA rare punishment handed out in a sad Harris County case. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 8:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Click2Houston has a story explaining why "simple traffic court cases are dragging out for years" in Harris County. [read post]
25 Nov 2010, 6:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's a story from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on the Thanksgiving meal in Texas prisons and similar story about today's menu at the Harris County Jail. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 4:20 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Now that the federal FY 2010 has come and gone, here's an account of grants given to Texas recipients in the last year from the National Institute of Justice, compiled from this source:City of Austin, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $182,097 Houston PD Crime Lab, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $1,143,339 Bexar County, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $127,119 State of Texas, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $2,401320 Tarrant… [read post]
23 Nov 2010, 1:03 am by Darrin Mish
 In Houston, 1,518 residents among 1,963 Harris County residents have not received their tax refund checks. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 5:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"County Auditor Steve Moore said Harris County owes about $324,000 in housing costs incurred from June to October. [read post]
20 Nov 2010, 6:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Giving credit where it's due, it appears judges in Harris County (Houston) have begun changing their collective sentencing practices regarding first offense less-than-a-gram drug cases, going by their Nov. 1 jail population data reported (pdf) to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.Why do I say that? [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 7:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There should be something on pretrial detention in the committee's interim report, however.See related Grits posts:Reduce pretrial detention to stave off overcrowding Elected Officials Guide to Jail Population Management Judges have tools to reduce Harris jail overcrowding if they'll use themShipping inmates to other counties won't lower Harris jail population, just scatter itCounties that rejected new jails must now get serious about diversionPretrial… [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 2:06 pm by Rich Shea
Many of our visitors come from the areas of The Woodlands, Conroe, Oak Ridge North, Cut and Shoot, and other communities in the Montgomery County area or Houston and North Harris County. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 1:09 pm by Mark Bennett
If Houston TSO Joseph Joblin (to pick a screener at  random) were to go around in his off hours feeling up children’s legs until he “felt the resistance,” he would have a hard time convincing a Harris County jury that he didn’t have the intent to arouse or gratify his own sexual desire. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 4:48 am by cdw
Harris County has appointed Alexander Bunin  (FPD from the NDNY) as its first head public defender. [read post]