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20 Jun 2008, 9:53 am
" ...Taylor, 48, has worked to reclaim his life in the eight months since a Harris County judge ordered him released from prison after DNA evidence cleared him of a 1993 Houston rape. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 7:24 am
The resignation sent from a jail cell by former 2001 Texas "Prosecutor of the Year," Rockwall County DA Ray Sumrow, ends another sad saga of corruption by an elected official and leads me to reflect on how many recent high-level law enforcement types we've seen get into trouble recently: Bexar County Sheriff: Resigned to avoid prosecution for bribery related to the commissary. (2008)Potter County Sheriff: Convicted of bribery related to jail… [read post]
19 Jun 2008, 10:02 am
Harris County, in particular, "has 16% of the state's population but they account for 50% of the state jail inmates who are incarcerated for less than a gram of drugs. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 6:43 pm
Those were some of the questions posed at a June 5 hearing of the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee (I was out of town that day and just got around to listening to the asset forfeiture discussion - the video archive is here.)Committee Chairman John Whitmire of Houston first considered the need for an interim charge on asset forfeiture, he said, after receiving immense backlash from district attorneys in 2007 when he proposed taking 10% of forfeiture funds and using them to create drug… [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 6:01 am
Harris County's population actually declined from 1985 to 1989. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 8:56 pm
Blame Herrmann alone for what follows.)Judge Randy Wilson, in Harris County, Texas, was overseeing the Texas statewide Vioxx proceedings. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 7:32 am
Confirmation that Raul Rivera, 67, also had contracted the disease brings the total of Harris County victims to 15. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 8:23 pm
FWIW, Craig Watkins' Dallas DA office has been the most aggressive in pushing for quick execution dates - 4 of the executions scheduled post-Baze are from Dallas County; no other county including Harris has more than one.UPDATE: Ohio's high court actually held a hearing and decided their state's three-drug protocol didn't meet the new Baze standard. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 9:08 am
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5 Jun 2008, 7:39 pm
Journalist Rita Radostitz writes, "Harris County Death Penlaty: Race Matters," in the current Austin Chronicle.Anyone who follows capital murder cases in Texas has observed that race plays a role in who gets the death penalty and who doesn't. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 3:30 pm
"Sonnier was scheduled to die once before, but Harris County prosecutors set aside the Feb. 27 execution date to await the U.S. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 1:07 pm
"Killer's execution delayed; Texas lethal injection was to resume, but Harris County inmate gets new stay": This article appears today in The Houston Chronicle. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 12:38 pm
As detailed in this Houston Chronicle article, headlined "Killer's execution delayed; Texas lethal injection was to resume, but Harris County inmate gets new stay," Texas executions are still being stalled by lethal injection concerns. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 11:30 am
In Harris County, judges have used their discretion to send those defendants to county jail for up to six months as a condition of their probation.According to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (pdf), 1,102 state jail felons were sentenced to county jail terms as a probation condition as of May 1 - more than the number of new private beds for which the county just contracted. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 5:20 pm
This is from the latest version of the Houston Chronicle's report, "Appeals court stays execution for Harris County killer," written by Rosanna Ruiz:The Texas Defender Service submitted an appeal arguing that the state recently made changes to its three-drug cocktail protocol. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 3:07 pm
The Houston Chronicle website reports, "Appeals court stays execution for Harris County killer. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 11:57 pm
For whatever reason, Dallas judges have actually scheduled more executions so far than judges in Harris County, though overall executions from Harris outnumber all other sources.Interestingly, according to summaries on the TDCJ website, the first five men scheduled to be executed had no prior prison record before they committed the murders that put them on death row; four of those five offenses also involved sexual assault. [read post]
29 May 2008, 7:00 am
The recent decision by the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston in Harris County Appraisal District v. [read post]
26 May 2008, 11:10 pm
Will overcrowded county jails be forced to send local inmates out of county to make room for increased immigration holds? [read post]
26 May 2008, 12:20 pm
Harris County Assistant DA Lester Blizzard, who heads the Major Fraud Division, says the county asked the DOJ to start extradition proceedings after the office learned Collins, now 53 years old, was in Canada. [read post]
