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16 Nov 2017, 12:47 pm
John Whitmire, D-Houston, chair of the Texas Senate's criminal justice committee. [read post]
1 Nov 2017, 7:32 am
I don't know Mr. [read post]
7 May 2017, 8:11 am
So Whitmire was pledging to address a problem in a bill which he had already killed just hours before. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 4:36 am
The poorest people who get stuck in jail for lack of bail money tend to be the sickest as well, and they don’t have their medications when they’re booked into jails. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 7:46 am
But my fear is that, if closures are approved on the basis of cost savings which don't fully materialize, closing more down the line may be harder. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 3:53 am
Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire filed complaints this week against three Harris County magistrate judges - Eric Hagstette, Jill Wallace, and Joseph Licata III - after the Houston Chronicle published video of the assembly-line justice which has become routine in Texas' largest county. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 2:00 pm
I don't understand. [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 10:03 am
Sure, you can tell people their rights and even their lives don't matter as much as the officers' under the law. [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 8:03 am
John Whitmire declaring a "zero tolerance" policy on contraband cell phones in Texas prisons, they're still smuggled in fairly routinely and inmates find ways to rent them if they want them. [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 1:32 pm
John Whitmire is fond of saying.As far as the costs of housing drug offenders, the uniform cost report document prepared biennially by the Legislative Budget Board is the go-to source. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 11:15 am
But, why don’t you talk a little about that. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 1:55 pm
Also, I don't agree with the "behind-the-scenes political players" who "uniformly described a strong reluctance among rank-and-file Republicans to embrace criminal justice reform. [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 1:51 pm
Last session, Representative [Eric] Johnson introduced HB 1036, which was sponsored by Senator [John] Whitmire in the Senate. [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 2:02 pm
See Texas Tribune coverage and the judge's exchange of letters with Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 6:30 am
Governor Dan Patrick sent it to the State Affairs Committee chaired by Joan Huffman instead of John Whitmire's Criminal Justice Committee, as would be typical of a bill adjusting the Code of Criminal Procedure. [read post]
11 Jul 2015, 5:42 am
“You can’t get that objectivity, in the eyes of the public, if you don’t get that impartial grand jury. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 7:43 am
(And I still don't quite understand how you'd look at this session and highlight those bills!) [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 4:51 am
It was House Bill 2150, this session passed by Carol Alvarado in the House and John Whitmire carried it in the Senate. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 9:07 am
As Judge Cheryl Johnson pointed out in her concurrence in Robbins II, as a practical matter judges don't evaluate science but evidence, and in the case of forensics in particular, testimony. [read post]
27 May 2015, 4:20 pm
And, with this bill, the legislature really came out of the leadership from Chairman Herrero's office and John Whitmire. [read post]
