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7 Nov 2019, 11:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The defense has secured retraction letters from the former Travis County medical examiner and the DPS crime lab saying the testimony provided against Reed at trial was wrong. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 10:55 am by Alicia Maule
Based on Judge Yeakel’s decision, we encourage the Travis County District Attorney to closely examine this case, accept the decisions of every judge who actually heard the witnesses and dismiss this case so that Ms. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
F, the ‘Sunlight on Dark Money’ Measure” by Trisha Thandani for San Francisco Chronicle North Carolina: “Senate Leader Using Campaign Cash to Buy Raleigh Home” by Travis Fain for WRAL Elections Kentucky: “Kentucky Outcome Embarrasses Trump and Worries Many Republicans Ahead of 2020” by Robert Costa (Washington Post) for MSN Virginia: “Democrats Flip Virginia Senate and House, Taking Control of State Government for the First Time in a… [read post]
5 Nov 2019, 10:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few browser clearing odds and ends:One out of 8 Travis County jail bookings in 2018 was for Class C misdemeanorsIn Travis County last year, more than 5,000 people were arrested for a Class-C misdemeanor only - about one out of every eight people booked into the county jail. [read post]
4 Nov 2019, 6:36 am by aschwartz
In a petition filed on Thursday in Texas state court of Travis County, Google, along with its parent company Alphabet, sought a protective order against Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, who is spearheading the multistate antitrust investigation into the company. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 7:07 am by Richard Hunt
There was no doubt the plaintiff was disabled and that the county was covered by Title II of the ADA. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 5:48 am by Brian Leiter
Our current Bigelow Fellow Travis Crum blogged about how to protect voting rights after SCOTUS's decision in Shelby County (the Wall Street Journal even noted... [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 8:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Soon, prosecutors in other states began running mimicking parts of Krasner's approach as well as expanding or exploring other decarceral programs.In Texas, though, the decarceral efforts of our Democratic DAs have been much more modest.Harris and Travis Counties have created special courts for state-jail felonies that have helped chip away at state-jail incarceration rates. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 8:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" - Matthew 25:40The tired Trumpian tropes trotted out by the Governor and local Travis County GOP figures in the Austin homelessness debates - all while President Trump and Fox News frenetically amp up anti-homeless sentiment as a national-election wedge issue - make Grits feel tired and sad. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Bernie Sanders Says He Will Slow His Campaign Pace After Heart Attack ENM News – Sydney Ember and Jonathan Martin (New York Times) | Published: 10/8/2019 U.S. [read post]
4 Oct 2019, 3:42 pm by Eric Quitugua
” Livingston, who is a judge in the Travis County Civil District Court, was similarly recognized in 2016 by the Austin Bar Association and Austin Bar Foundation, which presented her with the inaugural Joseph C. [read post]
4 Oct 2019, 3:42 pm by Eric Quitugua
” Livingston, who is a judge in the Travis County Civil District Court, was similarly recognized in 2016 by the Austin Bar Association and Austin Bar Foundation, which presented her with the inaugural Joseph C. [read post]
Travis County Civil and Family Courts Facility P3: The Travis County Courthouse P3 reached financial close on May 9, 2019. [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 8:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Prosecutors don't even attend those hearings in Travis County, she declared, an assertion which Grits found dubious. [read post]
27 Sep 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Convictions Tossed Out Against Ex-Flynn Business Partner AP News – Michael Barakat | Published: 9/24/2019 A federal judge tossed out convictions against a one-time business partner of former national security adviser Michael Flynn who was accused of acting as a Turkish foreign agent. [read post]
12 Sep 2019, 8:54 am by Nathan Mattise
Andino Reynal and Joseph Turner, to the front of Travis County's 450th Criminal District Court. [read post]
31 Aug 2019, 7:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Austin City Council is presently considering whether to shift to a medical-led response in most instances, following the lead of a Dallas PD pilot program.'Cooking them to death'The Marshall Project and the Weather Channel teamed up to report on the effects of excessive heat in Texas prisons.Coming soon: New Travis County public defender officeGreat news: The Texas Indigent Defense Commission approved grant funding for a new public-defender office in Travis… [read post]
29 Aug 2019, 12:29 pm by John Floyd
” The number of cases an appointed attorney may handle in Travis County is 100 misdemeanor and 90 felonies while in Harris County public defenders have agreed to take on no more than 128 cases per year, down from the current level of 150 cases. [read post]