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15 Dec 2011, 12:12 pm
Senate seats, the governorship, the state Legislature and most statewide offices. [read post]
16 Feb 2013, 3:08 pm
The story opened: In a surprise move to reverse a 23-year-old merger of Texas’ criminal justice agencies, a key legislative committee moved Wednesday to shift all parole operations and programs from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to the Board of Pardons and Parole that now just votes on releases.In addition, a Senate working group writing the first draft of the 2014-15 state budget proposed closing two private prisons that house state… [read post]
19 Jun 2016, 8:00 am
As a practical matter, mass incarceration requires mass prisoner releases for reasons which have nothing to do with do-gooder reform agendas.Consider: Texas releases more than 70,000 inmates per year these days, while in 1990 Texas incarcerated around 40,000 state inmates en toto. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 9:30 am
It's being fixed now and by 2021 - twenty years after Texas' racial profiling law first passed! [read post]
13 Sep 2013, 10:06 am
Too bad the state won't be gathering similar data for line prosecutors; that too, could make for provocative news fodder. [read post]
13 May 2017, 8:28 am
Let's take a quick moment to see where are the session's significant criminal justice bills at the Texas Legislature after a week of important House deadlines. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 12:24 am
Pope, who has been criticized in recent months for the sometimes rocky implementation of changes mandated by the Legislature, was out of town Friday and could not be reached for comment. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 5:47 pm
The Legislature cannot afford to do the same. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 3:58 am
The legislation passed the finance committee of the New Mexico Senate on a 12-0 vote, and will be taken up by the full legislature in its next session in January. [read post]
5 Dec 2019, 11:44 am
(After innocent people were framed in drug stings in Tulia and Hearne, the Texas Legislature in 2001 enacted a requirement for corroborating informant testimony in drug cases.) [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 5:39 pm
Weis Jr. wrote that Rapid Settlements has frequently tried to evade the consumer safeguard (of obtaining prior Court approval) by utilizing a Texas arbitration group when state courts reject their initial attempts. [read post]
November Reasonably Suspicious Podcast: Let me be your lawyer dog, or I won't be your man at all ...
12 Nov 2017, 5:51 am
Davis, seeking funds for investigation into an ineffective assistance claim.A state district court considers Ex Parte Flores in which the key eyewitness was subjected to hypnosis before changing her ID of the suspect. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 4:17 pm
The Supreme Court of Texas upheld a jury award in Fisher's favor, stating that recovery was permitted for "humiliation and indignity" even though no actual contact occurred so long as there was contact with clothing or an object closely identified with the body. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 12:29 pm
Ten states—including Texas, Utah, California, Oklahoma and Maryland—already subsidize the college education of illegal immigrants who graduate from local high schools. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:21 am
Among states that still give illegal aliens heavily discounted in-state tuition at public institutions of higher learning are Texas, Utah, Washington, New York and California. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 11:31 am
State. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 8:00 am
"Innocence, though, has proven to trump most anything," Bradley wrote, as if this is a problem.I asked him what interest the state has in destroying evidence, especially when scores of Texas convicts have been found innocent based on DNA testing after serving years in prison. [read post]
28 Jul 2018, 6:31 am
Dallas state Sen. [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 12:57 pm
Even a default judgment on an otherwise valid legal theory under Texas law (breach of contract, account stated) may be attacked in a timely appeal or restricted appeal if the creditor's pleadings was defective, or arguably insufficient to meet the fair notice standard. [read post]
23 May 2020, 10:17 am
But after the DRP was finally abolished in 2019, there's been a renewed push to de-fang the Omnibase program, doggedly led by Emily Gerrick at the Texas Fair Defense Project and Mary Mergler at Texas Appleseed. [read post]
