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26 Aug 2014, 5:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
  Back in 1995, pretrial defendants made up just 30.3 percent of Texas county jail inmates. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 11:53 am by Hannah Kiddoo
Harle, 226th District Court, Bexar County, San Antonio ·      Hon. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 3:34 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's another mess for the Texas Forensic Science Commission to sort through, this time related to a private lab handling DWI blood work for Bexar County. [read post]
27 May 2014, 9:00 am by Hannah Kiddoo
The scanners will help staff and volunteers e-file pleadings to the Bexar County District Clerk’s office, in compliance with the Supreme Court of Texas order mandating electronic filing in civil cases. [read post]
16 May 2014, 7:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Bexar County loses, and could lose big—since, according to the State’s own logic, Mr. [read post]
7 May 2014, 2:42 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Bexar County jail population decliningSo says this TV news report.Hearne cop shot 93-year old womanReported the Waco Tribune Herald, "Authorities are investigating the shooting of a 93-year-old woman by a Hearne police officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of a Hearne man in December 2012. [read post]
2 May 2014, 9:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Tyler officials should listen to voters, use new tools to reduce jail overcrowdingSheriffs more likely than PDs to welcome new arrest discretionJefferson County works out kinks with new cite and summons authorityHow one Texas county will take advantage of new law to reduce jail overcrowdingHB 2391 could save Bexar taxpayers $10,000 per dayCite and summons for low-level offenses could free up jail spaceTexas Lege approved new tools to reduce jail overcrowding, if… [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 6:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Juvenile Justice Department will soon have its third executive director in less than a month, according to the Texas Tribune. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 10:00 am by Gerry W. Beyer
A lesbian couple filed Bexar County’s first divorce some time in February. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 7:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In Bexar County, “about 21 percent of the inmates suffer from mental illness” (San Antonio Express-News, Aug. 8, 2010). [read post]
22 Feb 2014, 7:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few items that caught Grits' attention this week but haven't made it into independent posts:Covering Texas DA's racesSee coverage of DA's races in Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, and Bexar Counties.' [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 10:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Notably, the Prison Policy Initiative last month called on the FCC to regulate charges for video visitation, complaining that the elimination of in-person visits often resulted from "perverse incentives" created by such contracts.Metal detectors installed to prevent cell-phone smuggling in Bexar JailThe Bexar County Jail has installed metal detectors that all staff are now required to pass through in order to combat contraband smuggling after they found a smuggled cell… [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 9:01 am by Michael Lowe
For example, in “No Refusal” campaigns, a Texas county (Dallas, Tarrant, Harris, Bexar, etc.) will publically announce a No Refusal Campaign and then anyone pulled over for suspicion of driving drunk who refuses a blood or breath test will be escorted by police to a place where form orders and a magistrate / judge await the driver. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 7:32 am
The first group of counties (Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, Collin, Denton, El Paso, Hidalgo and Fort Bend), the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals and the 14 Courts of Appeal become mandatory January 1, 2014. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 11:38 am by Lindsay Stafford Mader
Hervey then practiced with a San Antonio law office for five years and went on to serve as assistant criminal district attorney of Bexar County’s appellate section for 16 years. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 6:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
So far, four labs – including the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas and the Bexar County lab – have supplied lists of cases, she said, totaling "a few dozen" where "positive association" was made between a defendant and crime scene evidence. [read post]
13 Jan 2014, 9:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Judge Barbara Hervey of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and former Bexar County Medical Examiner Dr. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 1:10 pm by Michael Lowe
The San Antonio Four In Bexar County, the case of the “San Antonio Four” is being heralded as one of the first examples of the new Texas Habeas Corpus Junk Science law being successfully implemented for justice. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 7:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Indigent Defense Commission is reviewing the situation in Bexar and may formally address it in the new year. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 10:04 am by Beth Graham
After the lawsuit was filed, Icon responded with an answer, engaged in discovery, and joined a motion to transfer the case to Bexar County where the dispute was set for jury trial. [read post]