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1 Jan 2011, 7:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
28 Dec 2010, 7:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But Smith's compromise is one I'm willing to make in exchange for the benefits of avoiding the Driver Responsibility surcharge, which is the biggest reason for the decline in DWI pleas, and to ease the overwhelming burden on county courts imposed by the massive case backlog.The bill would also have the benefit of clarifying the legality of the DIVERT program created by Harris County DA Pat Lykos, which has generated controversy in some quarters because of its essential… [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 8:09 am by Steve Hall
In a statement about the brief, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos said the hearing in Fine's court is not "the proper forum for this particular constitutional challenge to the law. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 6:19 am by Jeff Gamso
Unless having the public learn the truth of capital punishment somehow harms the State, Harris County District Attorney Pat “Transparency” Lykos’s petition for mandamus should fail. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 11:47 am by Mark Bennett
Unless having the public learn the truth of capital punishment somehow harms the State, Harris County District Attorney Pat “Transparency” Lykos’s petition for mandamus should fail. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:42 am by Steve Hall
When Pat Lykos ran for the office of Harris County District Attorney, she promised that there would be a new day in the criminal justice system. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 8:41 am by Steve Hall
District Attorney Pat Lykos called the decision to seek a death sentence "the gravest and most profound decision that a district attorney makes. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 3:38 am by Russ Bensing
Harris presents an easy win for the defendant. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 2:20 pm by David Kopel
.), Pat Toomey (Penn.), Mike Lee (Utah), Joe Manchin (W.V.) and Ron Johnson (Wisc.). [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 2:40 am by SHG
In a move that's as sweepingly cynical as it is desperate, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos has gotten the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, on its second bite, to shut down the hearing in the capital case of John Green. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 7:32 pm by Steve Hall
" Here's a timeline of the Harris County District Attorney's Office attempts to derail the hearing: In April, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos filed a motion asking Judge Kevin Fine to be recused. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 7:57 am by Steve Hall
And it stayed that way, per the direction of Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 2:36 am by Kelly
Johnson & Johnson (Kluwer) EWHC (Pat) finds no infringement of coronary stent patents: Abbott Laboratories Limited v. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 1:16 am by johntfloyd
Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos was elected on the theme that she would introduce “reform” to the district attorney’s office and put an end to the often illegal and unethical practices of the “convict at any cost” which hallmarked the former administrations of Charles “Chuck” Rosenthal and his predecessor Johnny Holmes. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 6:02 am by lawmrh
These are the folks keeping us safe by scanning, screening, groping and patting us down at airport security lines. [read post]
21 Nov 2010, 9:25 pm by Laura Bergus
Children under 12 get “modified” pat-down, or can have their naked picture taken by the government. [read post]
20 Nov 2010, 6:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That was the choice of local elected officials.In any event, whether new DA Pat Lykos has quit asking for the extra jail time as frequently or judges have smartened up and started refusing it, I cannot say, but as of Nov. 1 there were just 350 inmates in the Harris County jail who'd been convicted of state jail felonies and were serving time as a condition of probation. [read post]