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8 Jan 2015, 8:05 am
He also served as an associate of a San Antonio litigation firm, where he was a defense and appellate attorney, as well as an appellate prosecutor in Dallas, Harris, and Bexar counties and, most recently, a senior prosecutor in the Bexar County Criminal District Attorney’s Office. [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 3:41 pm
So, surprisingly, the data show little if any correlation between solving murders and reducing their number, to the extent that's any consolation.Restorative justice in schoolsSchool districts across the state, including several in Bexar County, are experimenting with restorative justice models for student discipline.Perry pardon grinch at final Christmas as governorHumbug! [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 8:17 am
A profile of outgoing Bexar County DA Susan Reed in the SA Express-News (Dec. 27) mentioned, while recounting her "missteps" sandwiched between mostly positive reviews, that "Her refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to review claims that Ruben Cantu was wrongly executed in 1993 after an eyewitness reportedly recanted. [read post]
27 Dec 2014, 6:05 am
Lately, since losing a judicial election in Bexar County in 2008, Richardson has worked "As a visiting judge whose territory includes multiple counties," wrote Fikac, "he has been handling everything from a regular prison docket in South Texas to high-profile murder cases. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 9:19 am
Commenting on local anti-DWI efforts, outgoing Bexar County DA Susan Reed cited ridesharing services Lyft and Uber as a means to reduce drunk driving in a city without a robust public transportation system (which pretty much describes every Texas city).Grits found this interesting because local debates over these services have largely revolved around whether they're fair to taxicab companies, whom one would suppose from the rhetoric enjoy a God-given natural cartel that trumps… [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 7:17 am
The paper investigated "after a Lubbock County medical examiner’s ruling this fall contradicted previous rulings by the state. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 7:30 am
The designated pilot location was McLendon's home county in Bexar; Governor Perry approved it and local officials looked forward to implementing it. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 5:33 am
So from a political perspective, Reed's ouster and replacement by a Democrat marks the final element in an important historical transition, a changing of the guard, if you will, among the state's elected prosecutors, whose ranks will look much different in January than today.Just to mention it, if it weren't for LaHood's upset victory in Bexar, the DAs in Texas' five largest counties (Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Tarrant, and Travis) would all be… [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 6:33 am
He also ran his first assistant in a failed bid for Dallas County Democratic Party Chair, which forced Democratic leaders county-wide to already choose to oppose him once this year. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 7:21 am
Here are several items that merit Grits readers attention but haven't made it into individual posts:Craig Watkins' fumbling Dallas DA campaign Grits mentioned earlier that the Dallas, Harris and Bexar County DA's races interested me as potentially close, competitive toss-up races, in Bexar because a single donor dropped $600K on the Democratic challenger. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 7:18 am
I don't need that kind of pointless, narcissistic drama in my life.Bexar considers expanding public defender officeIn San Antonio, Bexar County officials are mulling a full-blown public defender office, expanding on the appellate and mental health public defenders operating there now. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 6:59 am
One sheriff’s department even bought a copy for every family in its county. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 7:25 am
The Bexar County DA's race may turn out to be as interesting as the ones in Dallas and Houston. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 9:02 am
But prosecutors from Harris and Bexar counties must have known about Ford and a similar recent case out of the 14th Court of Appeals (Barfield v. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 8:57 am
These leases are in Tyler County, Liberty County, Bexar County, Atascosa County, Kaufman County and Callahan County, Texas. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 8:00 am
“Did you know that we have 6,000 lawyers in Bexar County and only about 3,000 are SABA members? [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 4:13 am
Here are a couple of recent stories about jail diversion programs for the mentally ill in San Antonio and Houston being touted as models (even though the latter hasn't launched yet):Kaiser Health News (Aug. 20): Wrestling with a Texas county's mental health systemHouston Public Media (Aug. 21): Pilot jail diversion program for mentally illThe Bexar program deserves its kudos and I certainly hope the pilot in Harris County fulfills expectations. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 5:25 am
Grits can't tell where the 29 percent figure for pretrial defendants in Bexar County comes from. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 11:53 am
Harle, 226th District Court, Bexar County, San Antonio · Hon. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 3:34 pm
When they meet again in August, I'd expect the FSC to vote to investigate Bexar County case, based on their prior patterns. [read post]
