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15 Feb 2008, 7:04 am
First Dimitria Pope's resignation at the beginning of the week and now Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal has resigned. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 3:35 pm
All five candidates for Harris County District Attorney were invited to speak today with the board of directors of HCCLA, the Harris County Criminal Lawyers' Association, after a board meeting. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 1:24 am
Doug Berman did a post about Kansas recently and I realized their entire state prison system is smaller than the Harris County Jail! [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 7:34 pm
"Jurors file suit to disclose evidence in Medina case": The Houston Chronicle provides a news update that begins, "Six members of a Harris County grand jury who indicted Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina and his wife on charges stemming from the fire that destroyed their Spring home have filed a lawsuit to talk about the evidence they saw before handing up the indictments. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 3:21 pm
Nonetheless, a Democratic sweep would have a salutary effect in Harris County. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 4:52 am
It always has been," says Patrick McCann, president of the Harris County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 12:30 pm
Sheriffs who want to allow immigration officials to detain more immigrants in local Texas jails are running up against a backlash from county commissioners who don't want to foot the bill for federal detainees.I'd identified that problem earlier when Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas proposed such a change as part of his primary re-election campaign. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 8:08 am
County of Allegheny, No. 06-2869 "In an action against various defendants for violations of 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law, arising from a former 911 dispatcher's improper use of his job facilities to track down and kill his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend, plaintiff's son, dismissal of the claims is reversed in part and the matter remanded with instructions to permit plaintiff an opportunity to amend certain state-created danger and equal protection claims, as the… [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 2:11 am
Over at the Texas Observer, Jason Johnson has a story about the dead-certain re-election prospects of state Rep. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 6:58 am
Here are the changes in jail incarceration rates between 2000-2007 for Texas' five largest counties (Slide 20):Harris: 15.72%Dallas: -13.46%Tarrant: -6.02%Bexar: 7.54%Travis: -15.08%Fabelo corroborated my assessment earlier in the day that pretrial detention is driving county jail growth. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 2:23 am
Here are the incarceration rates for pretrial detainees at Texas' largest county jails: What percentage of Texas county jail inmates are awaiting trial? [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 2:13 pm
An ICE program that trains local jails on the art of identifying undocumented immigrants apparently is quite popular: James Pinkerton writes in the Houston Chronicle: The federal immigration training program Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas wants for a dozen jailers... [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 10:05 am
The hearing, in which plaintiff's attorney Lloyd Kelley has asked Hoyt to hold Rosenthal in contempt, relates to a federal civil rights case lodged by two brothers against the Harris County Sheriffs Office. [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 6:38 am
Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal could be fined or jailed if he is found in contempt of court Thursday. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 10:48 am
From Earl Musick: The Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association feels that the election of the next Harris County District Attorney is extremely important to our organization and to the citizens of Harris County. [read post]
29 Jan 2008, 8:49 pm
Maybe, maybe not -- the Dallasification of Harris County elections is purely speculative right now. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 2:48 am
across the border onto US/Texas soil.I may not think arresting drug users is the answer to any problem I believe needs solving (on that me and the Texas Department of Public Safety Narcotics Division agree), but that doesn't mean I have any common interests with the killers and thugs who're turning parts of Mexico into a full-blown battle zone.Thanks to massive amounts of legal, desirable commerce that's largely unappreciated by those who've never visited the… [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 9:04 am
" For Open Records Week last week I sent public information requests to all of Harris County's 37 criminal-court judges. [read post]