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22 Oct 2011, 5:00 am
This schtick is getting old.Related Grits posts:Stare bar will investigate prosecutor misconduct in Michael Morton case Unable to squelch prosecutor misconduct allegations, John Bradley passes them off to AG John Bradley tries to short-circuit investigation into prosecutor misconduct in Michael Morton case John Bradley facing local, national criticism now that Michael Morton formally exoneratedState Bar should sanction prosecutor from Michael Morton case but almost certainly won't… [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 7:38 am
If I were a member of the Texas Legislature, I would vote to repeal it. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 4:17 am
McEachern was placed on a two-year probation that allowed him to continue practicing law.The McEachern case is the one always mentioned, but that's the only example I know of in the last decade where a Texas prosecutor was disciplined by the state bar for hiding so-called Brady material. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 8:32 am
The State of Texas sends these people to the death chamber. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 6:55 am
In 2003, the Texas Legislature passed a law to reform the state's civil justice system. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 5:40 pm
A hawk when it comes to Mexican cartels, Perry said in New Hampshire this month that as president he would consider sending U.S. troops into Mexico to combat drug violence there and stop it from spilling into the United States. ...Since 2008, with the support of the Republican-dominated Texas legislature and more than $400 million in taxpayer funds, Perry has pressed forward on his own version of a surge — called Operation Border Star — paying millions for… [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 9:07 am
The agency was ordered by the state legislature to conduct an assessment of the impact of illegal activity along the Texas-Mexico border on rural landowners and the agriculture industry. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 2:45 pm
Professor Bintliff explains that UELMA is scheduled to be introduced into a number of U.S. state legislatures in January 2012. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 9:21 am
New laws or resolutions affecting the courts enacted or adopted by the Texas legislature in 2011 (except HB 79 (Special Session), see here) include the following: HCR 22 (Special Session) Commends the members of the Texas Supreme Court for their actions in support of legal aid services and honoring them for their work in promoting access to justice for the state’s most vulnerable citizens. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 9:17 am
"My role is to represent the state. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 8:54 am
Stevenson (South Texas College of Law) has posted Judicial Deference to Legislatures in Constitutional Analysis (North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 90, 2012) on SSRN. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 7:38 am
Texas is a strong legislative State. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 5:12 am
It strikes me as outright bizarre that one state agency is refusing to contract with another one when the Legislature explicitly told them to. [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 1:12 pm
The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, referred to as UELMA, is ready for introduction into state legislatures. [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 9:54 am
Justice Hemphill was buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 4:57 am
Another Texas District Attorney, this time in Waco, is opposing post-conviction DNA testing in a possible innocence case. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 5:28 am
The SA Express-News' full story is now online about the Texas Highway Patrol Association - a so-called charity that rakes in millions in donations but gives just a small fraction for the purpose it claims, which is raising money for the families of dead state troopers. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 12:16 pm
Reports Ward:In a new sign that Texas' state budget crisis is far from over, officials drafting a new contract to provide medical care for Texas' 153,000 imprisoned criminals acknowledged publicly Wednesday that the approximately $900 million allocated by the Legislature will not cover the cost.As a result, top officials with the University of Texas — which provides medical care for roughly two-thirds of all state prisoners… [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 11:49 am
Vermont is the first state in the Northeast to implement a feed-in tariff to promote renewable energy development, and last year, its legislature voted to retire the aging Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in 2012. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 9:16 am
Related:John Bradley facing local, national criticism now that Michael Morton formally exoneratedState Bar should sanction prosecutor from Michael Morton case but almost certainly won't What can the Texas Legislature do to reduce prosecutorial misconduct? [read post]
