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20 Mar 2009, 5:01 am
The Court granted the State's petition for discretionary review with oral argument in this Harris County compelling prostitution and sexual assault of a child case to consider the following issues:1. [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 10:21 am
  "'A Saint on Death Row' by Thomas Cahill: a case against the death penalty, is from the DMN.At first, it seems like yet another Texas case, one set in Harris County to be precise: A troubled young black male faces a murder charge despite weak evidence, appears before an all-white jury, ends up on death row and dies courtesy of the state.But the saga of Dominique Green, executed by lethal injection in Huntsville on Oct. 26, 2004, diverges… [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 12:01 am
With so many Texas law enforcement agencies having become overly dependent on asset forfeiture income to make ends meet, last Sunday, Howard Witt the Chicago Tribune focused on an example that's almost a caricature of that trend: the East Texas town of Tenaha, where black motorists were allegedly threatened with criminal prosecution if they didn't sign over their property.After the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee examined the problem in an interim study,… [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 1:26 pm
But demographic changes have swept Democrats into office in Dallas and Harris counties, and that trend is bound to continue in the next election cycle with other large counties. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 10:59 am
Recently, the judiciary in Houston, Harris County, virtually turned over during the presidential election of 2008 with over 40 Republican District Judges being replaced with 40 new Democrats. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 4:44 pm
  A person that does not own a vehicle also signs this type of affidavit in Harris County, Texas, but in a lot of courts the person must also get fitted with a scram device. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 4:44 pm
  A person that does not own a vehicle also signs this type of affidavit in Harris County, Texas, but in a lot of courts the person must also get fitted with a scram device. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 1:05 pm
Harris had claimed she received ineffective assistance of counsel from her attorney, George Parnham. [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 9:26 am
The second thing that Cahill learned was how amazingly unfair and cynical the system of Texas's Harris County (which leads the country in executions) was. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 9:12 am
Of course, DAs have no problem paying to pursue these cases, they just don't want to pay to do right by the defendant after they make a mistake.In terms of cost, the committee was told that some counties charge a court fee to apply for expunging records - in Harris County, e.g., the fee is $250 - plus the defendant must typically pay an attorney, perhaps somewhere in the range of $1,500 to file the motion with the court.As drafted, Dutton's bill entirely places… [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 8:30 am
"I've seen what these defendants have done to people," said Wilson, an assistant district attorney in Harris County, Texas -- the busiest death penalty county in America's busiest death penalty state. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 8:23 am
The Harris County District Attorney's office dropped two charges of Indecency against Klem and replaced them with the two Injury to a Child charges as part of the plea agreement. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 1:42 am
A tiff broke out at the Harris County Criminal Law Center. [read post]
7 Mar 2009, 5:05 am
Local Rule 4.3 of the Local Rules for Probate Courts of Harris County [PDF]. [read post]
7 Mar 2009, 4:53 am
JEFFFORRESTER AND KIM FORRESTER; from Harris County; 14th district (14-06-00549-CV, ___ SW3d ___,01-10-08) Pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 59.1, after granting the petition for review and withouthearing oral argument, the Court reverses the court of appeals' judgment and renders judgment. [read post]
7 Mar 2009, 4:44 am
Feb. 27, 2009)(per curiam)(mandamus) (arbitration, nonsignatories, wrongful death beneficiaries compelled to arbitrate, workplace death)IN RE JINDAL SAW LIMITED, JINDAL ENTERPRISES LLC, AND SAW PIPES USA; from Harris County; 1st district (01-07-01068-CV, 264 SW3d 755, 05-22-08)stay order issued October 24, 2008, lifted Pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 52.8(c), without hearing oral argument, the Court conditionally grants the petition for writ of mandamus. [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 7:35 am
  It's by Michael Graczyk via the Houston Chronicle.In their appeal, Morris' lawyers contended the Harris County district attorney's office unconstitutionally discriminated against Morris in seeking the death penalty against him. [read post]