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18 May 2009, 5:39 am
"It is instructive that Gallegos candidly testified that, if Ceballos had attempted to drive away when Gallegos engaged his lights and pulled up behind him, Gallegos would have chased him down and arrested him. [read post]
7 May 2009, 3:30 am
John Whitmire's SB 1529 regulating asset forfeiture, House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Chairman Pete Gallego said he was sending a DVD to committee members with this story from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 about Tenaha, a small town in East Texas that allegedly decided ripping off drivers passing through town was easier than raising taxes.Key to ending the practice in Tenaha, the legislation would forbid police or prosecutors from requesting, requiring, or in any manner inducing… [read post]
7 May 2009, 2:10 am
:SB 116 by Ellis/Farrar which promotes recording custodial interrogationsSB 1976 by Whitmire/Gallego expanding post-conviction writ access in cases with discredited forensicsSB 1681 by Hinojosa/Gallego requiring corroboration for jailhouse informantsSB 1847 by Hegar/Moody letting exonerated inmates access the same services as parolees when they immediately leave prison.I felt lucky my boss Jeff Blackburn and I made it out of the building before 1 a.m.; the poor folks waiting to… [read post]
4 May 2009, 2:56 am
It's too early to speculate whether placing Fletcher in charge of white collar crime policy amounted to putting a fox in charge of the henhouse: But I'll bet if Chairman Gallego had known this backstory when he made the appointment he would have chosen someone else.For his part, the freshman Republican "said he was a victim of deception in that case as well and denied any wrongdoing. [read post]
1 May 2009, 1:22 am
"Texas was once a 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' state," said Gallego, D-Alpine. [read post]
22 Apr 2009, 3:39 am
(Other committees are still hearing bills for the originating chamber, though probably not for much longer.)I wasn't a big fan of Chairman Pete Gallego's decision to set up half a dozen subcommittees where most bills assigned to Criminal Jurisprudence received their hearings, but in retrospect that was a wise move that enabled them to have hearings on a remarkable number of bills in a relatively short span of time.Bills that have already received a hearing in Criminal… [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 4:54 am
Last week's record vote in the Texas Senate on SB 298 authorizing police to employ DWI checkpoints, a bill discussed here, demonstrated an interesting bipartisan breakdown:The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays 10.Yeas: Averitt, Carona, Davis, Duncan, Ellis (D), Fraser, Harris, Huffman, Lucio (D), Nelson, Nichols, Patrick, Seliger, Shapiro, Shapleigh (D), Van de Putte (D), Watson (D), Wentworth, West (D), Zaffirini (D).Nays: Eltife, Estes, Gallegos (D), Hegar,… [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 8:43 am
Chairman Gallego added that everyone on the dais likely had a different moral view of abortion, which could make "morally wrong" a moving target.But George Parnham, a criminal defense lawyer testifying for the bill, did a good job of explaining the standard. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 2:13 am
I spent all day yesterday at the Texas capitol on behalf of the Innocence Project of Texas prior to and during a lengthy House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee hearing in which testimony was heard regarding several key innocence-related bills, most notably eyewitness ID and compensation for false convictions (see coverage from AP).Committee Chair Pete Gallego sponsored the House version of the main eyewitness ID bill this session (SB 117/HB 3583), and he substituted agreed language from the… [read post]
31 Mar 2009, 3:02 am
Pero no es una escena sin precedentes: no muy lejos está el caso de Cristina Fernández: fue electa senadora en 2005 por la provincia de Buenos Aires, pero no votó en esa elección (no pudo votarse a sàmisma) porque estaba (y todavÃÂa debe estar) empadronada en algún circuito electoral de RÃÂo… [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 9:07 am
"The vast majority are from New Mexico," Gallegos said when asked about the respondents.Earlier coverage form New Mexico begins with this post. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 8:02 am
Spokesman Gilbert Gallegos on Monday said the office hasn't yet tabulated how many are for and how many are against repealing the death penalty. [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 7:01 am
Here to the memory of those who died and my continuing sympathy to their families.Eva Belén Abad Quijada, española, 30 añosÓscar Abril Alegre, español, 19 añosLiliana Guillermina Acero Ushiña, ecuatoriana, 26 añosFlorencio Aguado Rojano, español, 60 añosJuan Alberto Alonso Rodríguez, español, 38 añosMaría Joséfa Alvarez González, española, 48 añosJuan Carlos Del Amo Aguado,… [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 7:20 am
Updating these two ILB entries on "Pick of the Chick," Alicia Gallegos of the South Bend Tribune reports today:A St.... [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 2:30 am
Peter Kapetan, who represented the woman, Alfred Gallegos, who represented Kingsburg, and Karen Lynch, who represented Solis, all declined to comment after the hourlong hearing. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 9:46 am
Gallego requested that Anderson amend his bill to criminalize only the Salvia extract that can cause hallucinations. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 11:28 am
" Gallegos said his senior attorneys will then take a vote. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 1:00 am
Sevach ha tenido conocimiento de una sentencia dictada por un juez gallego en que pide disculpas por la demora en dictarla. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 9:20 am
Richardson has great respect for President Carter and he appreciates the president's views on this issue," said Richardson's spokesman, Gilbert Gallegos, after The Carter Center in Atlanta announced the letter had been sent. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 12:16 pm
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