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14 Jan 2009, 12:03 am
Also, I'm not sure I understand why Dallas County has a much higher number of people on probation than Harris County, which has a larger residential population. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 7:17 pm
Nevertheless, one admonishment that is frequently disregarded orally by a felony judge in Harris County, Texas is that a drug possession will cause a person's driver's license to be suspended for six months if there are over 21 years of age and one year if they are under 21 years of age. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 6:06 pm
Harris County is the most dangerous county in Texas for railway accidents, according to a recently released report. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 3:04 pm
The Associated Press reports that Harris County is the most dangerous county in Texas for railway accidents, according to a report released Thursday by the Texas Relocation and Improvement Association. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 2:49 am
Just as a newly reconstituted Harris County judiciary approved a new felony mental health court, the Council on State Government's Justice Center has produced a series of public policy primers on creating and operating mental health courts, which are an increasingly common approach in Texas toward a difficult-to-manage population of defendants:Mental Health Courts: A Primer for Policymakers and Practitioners Provides a general overview of this program model and… [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 2:25 am
New Harris County Democratic Sheriff Adrian Garcia is looking for ways to make good on his promise to boost the number of deputies on patrol while safely running an already understaffed jail during an economic downturn. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 7:40 am
And: Perhaps more telling, said David Dow, litigation director for the Texas Defender Service, was the fact that a Harris County jury refused to impose a death sentence in the case of an illegal immigrant who killed a police officer. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 4:11 pm
Perhaps, this is something that the misdemeanor courts in Houston, Harris County, Texas should start doing as well. [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 11:06 am
Harris County, Texas recently elected its first female district attorney. [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 12:03 am
UTMB, which ran the hospital, laid off thousands of employees.DNA-based exonerations continue in Dallas and elsewhere, though the Innocence Project of Texas which provided attorneys in many of these cases was hit hard in the pocketbook by Wall Street fraud.Big cities going D: Harris County judicial races flip Democratic following a similar shift in Dallas County in 2006, which solidified this year with Sheriff Lupe Valdez's re-election.The order here is… [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 1:46 pm
At least ten Texas inmates are schedule to be executed next year; across the state, more than 350 people are on death row (118 of whom were sentenced to death in Harris County)Now the bad. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 10:37 pm
She's been running the day-to-day lawyering in Earle's office for many years, now, so it should be a smooth transition.You're fired, againSpeaking of DAs, incoming Harris County DA Pat Lykos could have been little classier about ousting already-fired ADA Murray Newman - he of Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center notoriety - for writing a (mean-spirited) Christmas spoof of his new boss on his way out the door. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 10:19 am
Collected by wikipedia Antiquity Note: Many of these stories are likely to be apocryphal (uncertain authenticity) * 456 BC: Aeschylus, a Greek playwright, was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 7:15 am
So I asked the Texas Tornado, Mark Bennett, whether the prosecutors would take a stand and not show up, or be sheep. he posted that question. [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 11:13 am
According to the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP) year-end report, there were only 11 death sentences in the Lone Star state in 2008, and a grand total of Zero in Harris County (which by itself is responsible for over 100 executions in the last 26 years). [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 7:26 am
Bradford, narrowly lose the election to succeed his nemesis to Republican Pat Lykos.Robert Ryan and Jeffrey Dorrell, two Harris County grand jurors who bucked the DA's office to insist on indicting Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina for arson.Gerry Birnberg, chair of the Harris County Democratic Party whose candidates nearly swept Harris County judicial races and won their first countywide seats - including Sheriff - in many… [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 2:01 pm
Joseph Andrew Prystash, who was convicted in a 1994 murder-for-hire case out of Harris County, had his case sent back to the trial court for consideration of his claim that the state suppressed evidence.Another death row inmate making a similar claim, Rodney Reed, was not so lucky. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 6:53 pm
The Harris County Hospital... [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 12:40 pm
Friday's Houston Chronicle reports on efforts by Adrian Garcia, the new sheriff-elect of Harris County, Texas, to reach out to the local Sikh community after Sikh Coalition criticized the handling of an incident by deputies under outgoing sheriff Tommy Thomas. [read post]
13 Dec 2008, 6:59 am
The judge agreed and the Harris County Sheriff's Office began the process of organizing his release. [read post]
