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7 Nov 2007, 8:44 am
In Harris County (Houston), DA Chuck Rosenthal announced he would use his prosecutorial discretion to refuse cases where officers exercised this new authority, undermining any possible use in that jurisdiction.Rosenthal should now back off that position, and both county sheriffs and local police departments in Harris and Smith counties should reconsider their refusal to exercise this new authority. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 2:40 am
I'm voting against Prop 4 today authorizing Texas to issue new bonds to build three new adult prison and one new youth prison. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 9:09 am
Illinois offenders face similar restrictions, including a ban on dressing in a costume.Sheriff's deputies in Harris County, Texas, have been checking homes of sex offenders for Halloween decorations and are ready to arrest violators. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 9:27 am
"It profoundly affected the whole community, every child of trick-or-treating age," said Mike Hinton, then a Harris County prosecutor who sent O'Bryan to death row. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 8:22 am
His bill passed the Senate but not the House. [read post]
9 Sep 2007, 1:02 am
Sadly, I don't think the Harris County DA is incompetent.With the Texas Legislature, of course, the question of incompetence vs. indifference isn't as clear - indeed, it could always be both.Legislation to create an "innocence commission" in Texas to do just that died in the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee this spring, even though all but two of the nine committee members claimed to support it. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 2:47 am
Harris County Bail Bond Bd., No. 05-20714 A decision finding that a Texas statute restricting solicitation of potential customers denied bail bondsmen their First Amendment rights is affirmed in part and reversed in part where all but one of the restrictions violated the bondsmen's right to commercial speech. [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 1:12 am
Thomas writes:McVicker asserted that "Harris County officials have been criticized for failing to hire enough guards" and declares the alleged failure to be "a problem that has led to ... reprimands by state authorities. [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 12:45 am
By contrast, Harris County had about 11 pre-trial misdemeanants per 100,000 residents, Tarrant County had about 16 pre-trial misdemeanants per 100,000 residents, and Dallas County, which reported only nine pre-trial misdemeanants in custody, had about 0.38 pre-trial misdemeanants per 100,000 residents. [read post]
11 May 2007, 5:55 am
The Senate concurred in House amendments to SB 823 deregulating wiretapping authority and sent it to the Governor. [read post]
5 May 2007, 7:57 am
Earlier this spring I authored a public policy report (see here) on behalf of the Texas State Rifle Association, the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and the ACLU of Texas criticizing prosecutors who continued to instruct police to make such arrests. [read post]
4 May 2007, 1:42 am
Riddle accepted four significant amendments to the bill:The first amendment by Riddle allowed the Harris County Sheriff to operate wiretaps in addition to the six largest PDs. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 8:03 am
This will particularly help with overcrowding problems at the Harris County jail.Monitoring Jail StandardsSpeaking of jails, a bill from Rep. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 7:46 am
They wanted to know if I was going to say Tremont / Stature built my house, and the general partners were: Jorge Casimiro (on the Harris County Housing Authority), Thomas Thibodeau, and Armad Al Banna? [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 9:04 am
Time to finish up Grits' pre-hearing examination of bills being heard in Tuesday's Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. [read post]
17 Mar 2007, 2:18 am
Some prosecutors, notably Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal, have refused to agree to compensation in some cases, insisting they were right and the judicial system was wrong. [read post]
