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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]
1 Nov 2007, 12:45 am
Harris County sends more inmates to death row than any other county in Texas.Wilson said she plans to ask a judge to withdraw the Feb. 26 execution date for a man convicted of killing a woman and her 2-year-old son. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 10:48 pm
Harris County leads the nation in sentencing killers to death and seeing those sentences carried out.The Associated Press contributed to this report.mike.tolson@chron.com allan.turner@chron.com [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 12:06 am
Here's a frustrating trend that only has an electoral solution: Harris County disproportionately certifies youth offenders to stand trial as an adult than any other county, and the trend is worsening in response to reform legislation passed earlier this year by the Texas Legislature. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 5:22 am
"Texas permits courts to certify juveniles as young as 15 to be tried as adults for murder and other violent crimes.For the past decade, Harris County has prosecuted more juveniles as adults than Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant and Travis counties combined.In 1996, Harris County certified 170 juveniles amid a public crackdown on violent youth crime. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 9:25 am
Since executions were resumed 25 years ago, 102 killers from Harris County have been executed; 122 remain on death row. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 2:43 am
Private prison contractors told the county it would be profitable to run at the overcrowded levels the county operated at under Texas Commission on Jail Standards variances, but not at its actual capacity of just over 500 inmates.Is coverup worse than the crime for bribery? [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 8:45 am
Rodriguez Boot Camp and Eductional Cente (Cameron) Texas Adjudicated Placement Services (Dimmitt)El Paso County Juvenile Probation Department Cooke, Fannin & Grayson County Juvenile Boot Camp (Grayson)Harris County Delta Boot Camp (in Katy)Hays County Juvenile CenterHidalgo County Juvenile Boot CampBill Logue Juvenile Justice Center (McLennan)Ever Change Academy (Medina) Robert N. [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 2:04 am
Johnson describes in excruciating detail how he sold his website and systematically destroyed all evidence related to his business selling needles and rigs.The two agencies named that "David Johnson" worked for were the Sugar Land PD and the Harris County Sheriff's Office, but there's pretty strong evidence the problem is more widespread than just Mr. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 12:17 am
At the county level the problem is more complex, but bottom line, overcrowded lockups in Texas stem far more from poor decision making by elected officials than they do concrete public safety demands, especially in Smith and Harris Counties which face controversial jail votes.Another dose of Incarcerex won't cure what ails Texas corrections, but that's what we'll get if taxpaying voters can be convinced to foot the bill. [read post]
20 Oct 2007, 3:56 am
The latest complaint against Keller, filed late Wednesday by the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, also was signed by state District Judge Susan Criss of Galveston, retired state District Judge Jay W. [read post]
