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7 Dec 2016, 3:03 pm by Staycie R. Sena
In January 2015, at an Ellis County, Texas firehouse, five volunteer firefighters allegedly held down a new recruit and sodomized him with a sausage while a woman recorded it on her cell phone. [read post]
28 Oct 2005, 8:46 am
John Colyandro, Jim Ellis and Warren RoBold were indicted [JURIST report] along with DeLay on conspiracy and money laundering charges for [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 7:59 am by Tom Smith
Health and Human Services Department will bring more than 800 children — all undocumented immigrants — to facilities in Ellis and Rockwall counties starting Thursday, WFAA has confirmed. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 6:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rodney Ellis' staffers who is now employed at the Harris County Public Defenders office, authored an item in The Defender, the Texas defense bar's magazine, analyzing the state's new eyewitness ID legislation, the status of its implementation, and its potential legal import from the perspective of defense counsel. [read post]
18 Aug 2016, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
Prayers posted on Facebook by an Ellis County, Texas defense attorney have come under scrutiny of trial judges after complaints by the county district attorney's office that running commentary on ongoing trials is included in his prayers. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 1:44 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
It’s time for the law to have one set of rules in all counties and all courtrooms," said Ellis. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 8:21 am by johntfloyd
Admissibility of Unreliable Identification Evidence By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair According to the New York-based Innocence Project, 75 percent of the nation’s 273 DNA exonerations involved eyewitness misidentification—and according to Harris County state senator Rodney Ellis, a longtime advocate of eyewitness identification reform, 86 percent of Texas’ 45 DNA exonerations (the most in the nation) involved… [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 9:30 am by Adam Faderewski
Harris County Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis, also a senior adviser at Dentons US and a retired Texas senator, won the 2017 TMCP Trailblazer Outside Counsel of the Year Award. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 5:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Right now, there is bail litigation only in three Texas counties, but change is needed everywhere. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 4:38 am by Texas Legal News
Waxahachie, TX (September 22, 2020) – A motorcycle accident in Ellis County left one teen seriously injured on Monday afternoon. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 8:00 am by Lowell Brown
Box 1386, Austin, Texas 78767. 2014 Attorney Award Recipients are: • Outstanding Achievement – Brenda Strama • Outstanding Firm – Hutcheson Bowers LLLP • Advancement of Women’s Interests – Amie Rodnick • Contribution to Minority Community – Elise Harriger and Sarah Woelk • Criminal Justice – Kelsey McKay • Government Service – Pamela Legate • Litigation/Appellate – Sabrina Streusand • Pro Bono –… [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 9:07 am by Steve Hall
It also will consider authorizing the county's purchasing agent to start looking for a chief public defender to run the office.The county's previous version of the application received criticism from academics, local ministers, defense advocacy groups and the local state senator who authored the law authorizing the creation of public defender offices in Texas counties. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 3:26 pm
In response to the Black man’s death, previous state senator and now Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis pushed for sentencing enhancements for those found guilty of committing a hate crime. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 6:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
That seems to be the idea behind what's going on here, with the twist that the artist is a Buddhist monk.Ellis County may privatize jailThe Ellis County (Waxahachie) commissioners issued an RFP to privatize their county jail, we learn from Texas Prison Bidness. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 2:50 pm
Rodney Ellis proposed an Innocence Protection Package aimed at reducing wrongful convictions throughout the state.Law enforcement in Palm Beach County, Florida is developing standards for eyewitness identification in order to prevent false convictions.Prosecutors in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, urged a court to reconsider its decision to grant post-conviction DNA testing that could prove a convicted man's innocence. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 9:15 am
An Ellis County jury found Lopez guilty on Friday April 1, and assessed the sentence which was handed down by Judge Bob Carroll, 40th Judicial District Court of Ellis County. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 10:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
On some of these topics, the Texas Lege may take a few baby steps this year, as with Ellis' "Innocence Protection Package," but by no means will these much-compromised bills solve the problem.So yes, 42 DNA exonerations in Texas are a serious concern. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 9:16 am
Jim Bethke, director of the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense, could only name one public defender office in Texas that approached failure (Wichita County), but even those folks have "righted the ship. [read post]