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5 Jun 2014, 3:58 am
The article is too long and detailed to excerpt adequately, just read the whole thing.RELATED: Make appellate public defender in Bexar County independent. [read post]
27 May 2014, 9:00 am
The scanners will help staff and volunteers e-file pleadings to the Bexar County District Clerk’s office, in compliance with the Supreme Court of Texas order mandating electronic filing in civil cases. [read post]
16 May 2014, 7:26 am
Bexar County loses, and could lose big—since, according to the State’s own logic, Mr. [read post]
7 May 2014, 2:42 pm
Bexar County jail population decliningSo says this TV news report.Hearne cop shot 93-year old womanReported the Waco Tribune Herald, "Authorities are investigating the shooting of a 93-year-old woman by a Hearne police officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of a Hearne man in December 2012. [read post]
2 May 2014, 9:37 am
Tyler officials should listen to voters, use new tools to reduce jail overcrowdingSheriffs more likely than PDs to welcome new arrest discretionJefferson County works out kinks with new cite and summons authorityHow one Texas county will take advantage of new law to reduce jail overcrowdingHB 2391 could save Bexar taxpayers $10,000 per dayCite and summons for low-level offenses could free up jail spaceTexas Lege approved new tools to reduce jail overcrowding, if police can… [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 6:42 am
" Now:A special board meeting is scheduled for Thursday to consider and possibly approve David Riley as Brooke's replacement.If confirmed, Riley, who is currently chief juvenile probation officer for Bexar County, would start on May 12.Whoever is the next E.D. at the agency, I hope they're given time to right the boat. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 10:00 am
A lesbian couple filed Bexar County’s first divorce some time in February. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 7:00 am
In Bexar County, “about 21 percent of the inmates suffer from mental illness” (San Antonio Express-News, Aug. 8, 2010). [read post]
22 Feb 2014, 7:23 am
Here are a few items that caught Grits' attention this week but haven't made it into independent posts:Covering Texas DA's racesSee coverage of DA's races in Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, and Bexar Counties.' [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 9:16 am
” The probe also extends beyond the Bexar County Courthouse to other areas in the state where Acevedo has had clients, and it includes current and former jurists, federal sources confirmed. [read post]
7 Feb 2014, 7:28 am
The heavy-handed tactics badly backfired and now the defendant won't be prosecuted.Another example: when the Legislature authorized a pilot needle exchange program in Bexar County, Reed nixed it by threatening to prosecute anyone who participated.So close observers are used to this sort of domineering behavior from the Bexar DA. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 10:00 am
Notably, the Prison Policy Initiative last month called on the FCC to regulate charges for video visitation, complaining that the elimination of in-person visits often resulted from "perverse incentives" created by such contracts.Metal detectors installed to prevent cell-phone smuggling in Bexar JailThe Bexar County Jail has installed metal detectors that all staff are now required to pass through in order to combat contraband smuggling after they found a smuggled cell… [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 9:01 am
For example, in “No Refusal” campaigns, a Texas county (Dallas, Tarrant, Harris, Bexar, etc.) will publically announce a No Refusal Campaign and then anyone pulled over for suspicion of driving drunk who refuses a blood or breath test will be escorted by police to a place where form orders and a magistrate / judge await the driver. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 7:32 am
The first group of counties (Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, Collin, Denton, El Paso, Hidalgo and Fort Bend), the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals and the 14 Courts of Appeal become mandatory January 1, 2014. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 11:38 am
Hervey then practiced with a San Antonio law office for five years and went on to serve as assistant criminal district attorney of Bexar County’s appellate section for 16 years. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 6:50 am
So far, four labs – including the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas and the Bexar County lab – have supplied lists of cases, she said, totaling "a few dozen" where "positive association" was made between a defendant and crime scene evidence. [read post]
13 Jan 2014, 9:38 am
Judge Barbara Hervey of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and former Bexar County Medical Examiner Dr. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 1:10 pm
The San Antonio Four In Bexar County, the case of the “San Antonio Four” is being heralded as one of the first examples of the new Texas Habeas Corpus Junk Science law being successfully implemented for justice. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 7:06 am
Lately, more Texas counties have been experimenting with public defender systems - some of them rather specialized, like the Bexar County Appellate Public Defender - but apparently not everyone has worked out all the organizational kinks.In Bexar County, the commissioners court placed the Appellate Public Defender's office under the "Judicial Services Department," a division led by a non-lawyer which also oversees the crime lab, pretrial services, the… [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 12:16 pm
It’s educational in a fun sense,” said Lee, adding that students also received a lesson on constitutional rights from Bexar County District Court Judge Michael Mery on Wednesday. [read post]
