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11 Nov 2007, 1:15 am
"We're just not going to go forward with execution dates, although we're still trying cases as death penalty cases," said Roe Wilson, assistant district attorney of Harris County (Houston), which accounts for a quarter of 405 Texas executions since 1976.Across the country, the capital punishment machine clearly went into idle Oct. 30, when a majority of the U.S. [read post]
10 Nov 2007, 11:05 pm
The fact that almost 70% had already been placed once in a custodial setting means most counties have tried to use the resources they have before shipping kids off to Texas youth prisons. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 11:08 pm
The defeat of the jail bond baffles Harris County officials who have begun blaming each other for its failure. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 1:19 am
Compare this citizen journalist report to the Houston Chronicle's analysis why the Harris County Jail bonds failed, written by reporters Bill Murphy and Alan Bernstein. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 11:56 pm
Texas Criminal Court Creates E-Mail Filing System for Urgent Pleadings
Texas Lawyer
Responding to sharp criticism, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has created an e-mail filing system for urgent pleadings in death penalty and other cases. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 4:11 am
Supreme Court's decision on the issue before us," wrote Justice Harry Lee Anstead in a dissenting opinion that was also supported by Justice Peggy Quince. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 12:44 am
(See prior Grits posts here, here, here, here, and here.)Now she's even seeing protesters outside her home, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has filed a complaint with the Texas Judicial Conduct Commission, as did the Texas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association and other prominent Texas attorneys before them. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 8:44 am
They should start by implementing HB 2391, the only legislation passed in 2007 by the 80th Texas Legislature aimed at reducing jail overcrowding.In both Harris and Smith counties, the Sheriffs and local PDs refused to allow their officers to use new discretion created this year by the Legislature to issue a summons instead of making an arrest for certain low-level, nonviolent offenses. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 4:49 am
Harris County voters yesterday approved a $70 million dollar bond to construct a new family law center for Harris County, Texas. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 2:32 pm
It's not like Harris County could staff the jails they've got. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 2:40 am
This will help you decide which propositions you are in favor of and which ones you oppose.You can also check out Representative Scott Hochberg's website, which outlines the propositions as well.Voters in Harris, Smith, Brazos and Howard counties also have important bond votes today to decide whether to build new jails. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 10:00 am
I have also included in the chart the Houston MSA (The Houston Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Harris County and surrounding areas in Texas in its media market) as it is the singularly largest executing area of the country and IF a deterrent effect is observable it should be observable there. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 6:14 am
Think about the typical death penalty case out of Harris County, Texas, which sends more people to death row than any other county.Maybe you have a younger guy, perhaps in his twenties. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 11:54 pm
And I'd feel exactly the same way about police using steroids if they could acquire them without engaging in transactions with people operating outside the law.In the book I reviewed last week by the former Harris County Sheriff's Deputy, the author once asked his steroid dealer why he agreed to sell to a cop. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 9:03 am
In California, the Orange County Register has, "Needle put on hold. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 7:43 am
The hearings are the first step in a plan that Harris County's 22 criminal state district judges developed last month to review cases with problematic blood-typing evidence from the Houston Police Department's crime lab. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 4:52 am
I'd love to hear more criminal defense attorneys views' on this.Harris Executions on HoldKuff also comments on the Harris DA's sensible decision not to seek to have new execution dates set until the US Supreme Court decides the constitutionality of lethal injection protocols used in Texas and most other states.When you really start to appreciate that lifetime appointmentSee Tom Kirkendall on Galveston US District Judge Sam Kent's reassignment to Houston in the… [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 2:38 pm
Texas is the leading state in executions, and Harris County is the most active in the state — with no other state even close to the rate in Harris County alone, according to the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington. [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]
1 Nov 2007, 8:23 am
Harris County leads the nation in sentencing killers to death and seeing those sentences carried out.Harris County has been responsible for 102 of Texas' 405 executions. [read post]
