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14 Feb 2008, 2:33 pm
Meanwhile, some Texas lawmakers are already promising bills that mirror Oklahoma's House Bill 1804. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 2:33 pm
Meanwhile, some Texas lawmakers are already promising bills that mirror Oklahoma's House Bill 1804. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 10:26 am
Panelists will include: Texas State Senator Rodney EllisCraig Watkins, Dallas County District AttorneyCarroll Pickett ¸ Texas Death Row chaplain, featured in "At the Death House Door"Award Winning Filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert, Kartemquin FilmsAward winning Chicago Tribune Journalists Maurice Possley and Steve MillsGinger Anders, Co-Counsel in the Supreme Court case addressing the legality of lethal injectionDavid Oshinsky,… [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 7:22 am
I just finished listening to a Travis County DA candidate forum held by the Austin chapter of ACLU and the Texas Moratorium Network, which Scott Cobb of TMN placed online over at Burnt Orange Report. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 12:06 am
Texas Court Switches Sides, OKs Workers' Comp for Ex-NFL Star
Texas Lawyer
Last July, Waco, Texas' 10th Court of Appeals rejected former Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Chad Hennings' workers' compensation claim, holding in a case of first impression that professional athletes cannot receive workers' comp. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 12:30 pm
Sheriffs who want to allow immigration officials to detain more immigrants in local Texas jails are running up against a backlash from county commissioners who don't want to foot the bill for federal detainees.I'd identified that problem earlier when Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas proposed such a change as part of his primary re-election campaign. [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 2:11 am
Over at the Texas Observer, Jason Johnson has a story about the dead-certain re-election prospects of state Rep. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 6:58 am
Here are the changes in jail incarceration rates between 2000-2007 for Texas' five largest counties (Slide 20):Harris: 15.72%Dallas: -13.46%Tarrant: -6.02%Bexar: 7.54%Travis: -15.08%Fabelo corroborated my assessment earlier in the day that pretrial detention is driving county jail growth. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 2:23 am
Here are the incarceration rates for pretrial detainees at Texas' largest county jails: What percentage of Texas county jail inmates are awaiting trial? [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 6:19 am
I've been focused elswhere besides the blog, or I would have mentioned sooner this Dallas News story about the Pecos County District Attorney's race ("Pecos DA criticized in youth jail sex scandal seeking re-election," Feb. 2), notable in particular because the incumbent running for re-election is the prosecutor who refused to pursue child molestation charges against Texas Youth Commission administrators at the West Texas State School,… [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 8:20 am
" The Dallas County district attorney's office requested Thursday to withdraw the upcoming execution date for a Texas death row inmate while it awaits a U.S. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 3:49 am
From the Dallas Morning News:A federal judge has ordered Cameron County property owners to open their land to the government for border fence surveying, but not before he denied the government the right to take the land without a hearing. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 3:49 am
From the Dallas Morning News:A federal judge has ordered Cameron County property owners to open their land to the government for border fence surveying, but not before he denied the government the right to take the land without a hearing. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 3:49 am
From the Dallas Morning News:A federal judge has ordered Cameron County property owners to open their land to the government for border fence surveying, but not before he denied the government the right to take the land without a hearing. [read post]
29 Jan 2008, 8:49 pm
It is possible that Harris County's Republican judges, like Dallas County's, will need more than the anointment of the kingmakers in the local party apparat to keep their jobs. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 10:44 pm
Reported the Dallas News: ("More Texas students are getting in trouble for drugs," Jan. 26):In the Texas Education Agency region that includes Dallas, Collin and Rockwall counties, the number of incidents in which students were disciplined for drug infractions rose 13 percent between 2005-06 and 2006-07, according to data compiled by the TEA. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 11:22 pm
Or maybe in Texas the fix is in deeper in law enforcement than in those other states? [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 2:48 am
His description of the Juarez cartel, reported the Dallas News, "reveals 'The Office as a business enterprise in which no one is indispensable and in which dozens are killed each year for disciplinary reasons. [read post]
25 Jan 2008, 9:49 am
Cox was serving 20 years for burglary with intent to commit sexual assault and 15 years for murder in the killing of a cellmate at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont.The Dallas Morning News carries an AP dispatch, "Senator blames staff shortage for Texas inmate's death. [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 9:17 pm
Prosecutors in Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties never set up a system to process the misdemeanor citations and, they say, they have no plans to do so. [read post]
