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13 May 2014, 4:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Harris County Deputies Association and the DPS Officers Association have also joined the group. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 8:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"The only way out appears to be to die," said Nicolas Hughes, a Harris County assistant public defender who has represented several offenders in the program. [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 6:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Readers may recall that one-term Harris County DA Pat Lykos stopped charging "trace" cases as a felony, contributing to reduced jail crowding, but her opponent in the GOP primary, the current DA Mike Anderson, ran on a platform of charging those cases as felonies again. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 11:30 am
Local activists in Goshen, Indiana, succeeded in stopping plans to build an ICE detention center in their county. [read post]
4 Jul 2022, 8:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
She was a rich society lady who wore fashionable gowns and diamonds while incarcerated in the county jail. [read post]
1 Apr 2018, 12:31 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Follow up with calls to the judges in question to get their side of the story; the county judge so s/he can lodge a complaint about unfunded mandates from the state; then make a call to indigent defense experts like the Texas Fair Defense Project or Civil Rights Corps (the two nonprofits that sued over Harris County's unconstitutional bail practices), and you've just localized a national story.Indeed, there's a small mountain of data, including… [read post]
10 Dec 2016, 7:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Recommend that crime labs in all cases moving forward complete testing of substances in all drug cases regardless of the results of a drug field test, and that crime labs go back through previous cases in which the collected substance was not confirmed by lab testing.These recommendations are aimed at the exonerations out of Harris County of drug defendants accused by faulty field tests. [read post]
7 Jun 2019, 1:08 pm by David Oscar Markus
National outrage, includingcondemnation from then Special Counsel to the NAACP Thurgood Marshall,ultimately led President Harry Truman to order an FBI investigation. [read post]
10 Jun 2025, 6:34 pm by binder'sblog
Governor Newsom, Mayor Bass, and Vice President Harris illustrate several principles. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 11:37 am by Wolfgang Demino
The 13-page list of criminal cases in the Justice of the Peace Courts for Harris County, Texas, where the bad check cases against the Borrowing Parties were filed, shows that Cash Biz was the complainant in more than 400 bad check cases filed during the relevant time period from May 2011 through July 2012. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 7:45 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Judge Jean Spradling Hughes from Harris County told the committee, "This law has not enhanced public safety in fact it has put it in dire straits. [read post]
15 Nov 2012, 10:33 am by Dane Johnson Attorney At Law
  Only last month the Harris County Sherriff’s parole department was under scrutiny, and hundreds of drug tests were deemed inadmissible in court. [read post]
20 Nov 2017, 12:40 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
IMO that's a great argument for constantly updating and validating risk assessment instruments, but not for avoiding their use - at least in a place like Harris County where nearly all defendants, low-risk or high, would otherwise be held pretrial if they couldn't make bail.The authors suggest adjusting risk assessment scores when the RA is based on pre-reform data:jurisdictions that are reforming bail practices should rely on fresh and local data, gathered after their… [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 10:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Conveyed the reporter:The Tribune asked the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, which acknowledged this week it has "voluminous" files on the case, to provide information gathered during Reyes’ encounters with local law enforcement on the night the murders took place. [read post]
12 Mar 2021, 4:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 The Dallas News had previously reported that the Texas Rangers and the Harris County Sheriff's Office were the last agencies in the state with peace officers carrying hypnosis certifications. [read post]
29 Jan 2017, 6:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I'm kind of surprised they didn't mention Nueces County, which was truly a race decided on reform issues. [read post]