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11 Aug 2010, 12:59 pm
Since I first met him, he headed the Harris County District Attorney's Public Assistance Fraud Division, prosecuting welfare fraud cases. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 8:51 am
The Houston Chronicle reported recently about Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos’ call for an “emergency DNA lab. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 3:31 pm
" Good for Pat Lykos. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 11:41 am
Allen Porter walked free an innocent man in Houston yesterday after DNA and fingerprint evidence convinced Harris County DA Pat Lykos to reopen the case after 19 years. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 9:48 am
In response to a query from Grits, Harris County DA Pat Lykos emailed me today with a little more detail on the idea she proposed at the House Corrections Committee hearing last month to create detox centers where police could take intoxicated people instead of jail. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 10:09 am
The Hill reports that “it is not clear if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid…will allow a vote on the amendment. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 5:10 am
"In Harris County, District Attorney Pat Lykos' office allows one accused of drunken driving for the first time to plead guilty to the DWI offense and get a strict probated sentence in which he receives treatment, performs community service and abides by other conditions, including a lock on his auto ignition that tests for alcohol use before he can drive. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 4:36 pm
I called Harris County DA Pat Lykos today, seeking answers to four questions that seemed to have been left tantalizingly open after last week's House Corrections Committee hearing: 1) Her view on the proper role of state jails, 2) what she meant by her call to fundamentally overhaul how mental illness is treated in the justice system, 3) a more detailed description of her view of what a "detox center" that's an alternative to jail would look like in practice,… [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 7:19 am
"Harris County DA Pat Lykos and Caprice Cosper, a former judge who now coordinates Harris County efforts to reduce jail crowding, were the most virulent critics of state jails at last week's hearing. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 11:21 am
Thanks to Alan Bernstein at the Harris County Sheriff's Office for arranging a tour of the Harris jail last week, which I visited to receive a first-hand pitch regarding why Sheriff Adrian Garcia wants to expand facilities. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 3:35 pm
Before I leave the subject of Wednesday's House Corrections Committee meeting, one more idea from Harris County DA Pat Lykos that might be more widely applicable. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 5:41 pm
Francis Newton, of Harris County, was put to death for killing her husband and children in 1987. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 5:48 pm
Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos was especially full of excellent ideas today, as mentioned in the previous post, but in particular I should highlight her suggestion that the state authorize "detox centers besides jail," so that every intoxicated person doesn't automatically become a criminal defendant.I think that's a terrific idea. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 4:05 pm
Of 51,850 felony cases in Harris County in 2009, she said, 47% of those were state jail felonies. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 9:31 pm
Harry Truman contributed $250 to the building of the statue. [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 4:14 pm
Keynote speakers include: Harry Edwards [Professor Emeritus of Sociology, UC Berkeley], Susan Cahn [Professor of History, SUNY Buffalo], Ted Fay, [Professor of Sport Management, Center for Sport in Society, SUNY-Cortland], Allen Sack [Professor, Institute for Sports Management, University of New Haven].Other invited speakers include: Pat Griffin [Professor Emerita in Social Justice Education, UMass Amherst], Louis Harrison [Professor, College of Education, UTexas Austin], Albert… [read post]
29 May 2010, 9:45 am
"You've got 5000 and then some sex offenders that are registered in Harris County," said Kahan. [read post]
28 May 2010, 3:36 pm
., May 10, 2010), the judge rejected the state's motion for summary judgment as to all but one of the claims asserted by a transsexual inmate concerning the refusal of prison authorities to allow the inmate to live as a woman, the lone exception being the judge's determination that the inmate's constitutional rights would not be violated by the prison adhering to a requirement that the inmate only be subjected to strip and pat-down searches by male corrections officers. … [read post]
27 May 2010, 7:57 am
“It is the finding of this court that the totality of evidence does not support the state's motion to recuse Judge Fine nor that his impartiality might be reasonably questioned,” Gist wrote.Gist said he filed the denial Tuesday, but clerks said they had not received it until Wednesday.On April 1, Harris County's District Attorney Pat Lykos asked that Fine be recused after he ruled that the Texas capital murder statute violates due process provisions of the… [read post]
26 May 2010, 6:52 pm
Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos catching flak because grand juries are no-billing more cases (2.166% of cases filed in 2009, compared to 1.505% of cases filed in 2008) (KHOU-TV). [read post]
