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7 Oct 2007, 7:32 pm
Mayor Bill White, Police Chief Harold Hurtt and Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal all rejected the proposal for a Special Master, suggesting that the Innocence Project and related organizations could look into the cases. [read post]
7 Oct 2007, 12:35 pm
Now Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, put us on the front page of the New York Times and into the foreign press by refusing to allow the court clerk's office to stay open an extra half-hour to take the last-minute appeal of a Michael Richard, who raped and killed a Harris County mother of seven in 1986.And:She has shown herself capable of extraordinary mental gymnastics to avoid overturning a conviction. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 9:00 am
Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal announced Wednesday that DNA tests performed this summer exonerate Taylor and point to Carroll as the 1993 rapist. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 8:51 am
LINKThe Senate has confirmed Harris County state District Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 1:50 pm
The three homes are in Olde Oaks subdivision in northwest Harris County. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 8:22 am
Rick Perry or Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson could form a commission without legislative approval, as could the state Court of Criminal Appeals.The news comes with another non-capital exoneration in Harris County, stemming from HPD's crime lab woes. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 7:21 am
The Harris County Fire Marshall said yesterday that the fire was intentionally set.Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina's term does not expire until 2012. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 4:15 am
In Texas, there are three basic classes of misdemeanor and five basic degrees of felony.The basic classes of misdemeanor: Class Incarceration Fine C N/A Up to $500 B 0d - 180d in county jail Up to $2,000 A 0d - 1y in county jail Up to $4,000 County jail sentences are served subject to the county sheriff's good time calculations. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 11:00 pm
The three homes are in Olde Oaks subdivision in northwest Harris County. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 9:07 am
Harris, the state's most populous county, has 122 inmates on death row, themost by far. [read post]
27 Sep 2007, 4:46 am
Defense lawyers in Harris County filed a judicial complaint against a Harris County district court judge for threatening to lock up defendants who did not hire lawyers. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 6:39 am
About one-third of the Texas executions occurred in Harris County, where Houston is located. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 1:06 am
The hires effectively double Akin Gump's presence in the region, with the Texas-based law firm now boasting 11 lawyers in Beijing, some nine months after launching the office. [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 3:25 am
Richard "Racehorse" Haynes is trying a capital murder case in the 185th District Court of Harris County, Texas right now (I'm writing from the courtroom, where he's methodically cross-examining the state's snitch witness). [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 10:33 am
If this case had occurred in Harris County, the DNA evidence would not have been preserved to test. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 2:29 am
Bradford has a great chance to knock off Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal in the 2008 elections. [read post]
9 Sep 2007, 11:00 pm
"The dome is old and it's falling apart," said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett. [read post]
9 Sep 2007, 1:02 am
Sadly, I don't think the Harris County DA is incompetent.With the Texas Legislature, of course, the question of incompetence vs. indifference isn't as clear - indeed, it could always be both.Legislation to create an "innocence commission" in Texas to do just that died in the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee this spring, even though all but two of the nine committee members claimed to support it. [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 11:24 pm
The Harris County DA initially took officers' word for it how Gonzales died and declined to investigate, while the officers' union rep from the Texas Municipal Police Association insisted publicly, "It was thoroughly investigated and both officers did everything asked of them ... [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 2:47 am
Harris County Bail Bond Bd., No. 05-20714 A decision finding that a Texas statute restricting solicitation of potential customers denied bail bondsmen their First Amendment rights is affirmed in part and reversed in part where all but one of the restrictions violated the bondsmen's right to commercial speech. [read post]
