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The amazing lengths the Texas CCA will go to ignore police misconduct and uphold dubious convictions
21 Nov 2017, 10:24 am
Here's a crazy case out of Harris County: The Government-Always-Wins faction on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wrangled a four-member plurality on a habeas corpus writ to overturn the trial court's recommendation and uphold a conviction in which law enforcement misrepresented the weight of drugs found on a defendant, calling it 26 kilos when the real amount of actual cocaine was likely less than a gram.The reason for the discrepancy: A police officer stole the… [read post]
21 Feb 2016, 7:38 am
In Harris County, for example, the Sheriff responded to a scandal of failed oversight by slashing in half the number of compliance officers tasked with uncovering such failures. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 10:32 am
His was the first of some 160 cases identified by District Attorney Kim Ogg that relied solely on Goines' testimony to secure a conviction.Firing of deputy upheld for assisting with murder: "A Harris County law enforcement board on Wednesday upheld the firing of a former sheriff’s deputy who helped restrain a man as her husband choked him to death outside of a Houston-area Denny’s restaurant," reported the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 9:30 am
As did Danny Ray Thomas, another unarmed Black man, a man in mental distress, who was killed by police in Harris County, Texas, just days ago. [read post]
24 Sep 2024, 5:32 am
” The bill was introduced in response to a Columbia County city that tried to close its library over the same book banning issues seen across the country. [read post]
24 Feb 2025, 11:56 am
Roslyn African American History PhotographsOrganized Labor and Seattle’s African American Community: 1916–1920From Memphis and Mogadishu: The History of African Americans in King County, Washington, 1858–2014Perceptions of Race in the Seattle Union Record (SC)African Americans and Labor — Black History Month 2025 was originally published in walawlibrary on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this… [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 6:54 am
Police chiefs in Harris County continue to attack bail reform - most recently Houston police chief Art Acevedo - but the examples given never seem to bear out their complaints. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 4:53 pm
Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris were the named defendants, in their official capacities, in the Proposition 8 lawsuit. [read post]
1 May 2014, 8:45 am
Lives with Unhealthy Air - Nearly half of all Americans – more than 147 million – live in counties in the U.S. where ozone or particle pollutions levels make the air unhealthy to breathe <> Coalition Calls for Vote on Shaheen-Portman Energy Efficiency Bill - As bipartisan momentum builds behind Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman's (R-OH) efforts to pass a comprehensive energy efficiency bill, a coalition of 85 business, industry,… [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 9:30 am
As did Danny Ray Thomas, another unarmed Black man, a man in mental distress, who was killed by police in Harris County, Texas, just days ago. [read post]
19 May 2018, 10:49 am
"There are about two dozen forensic hypnotists in Texas at this time, the majority of whom serve in the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Rangers. [read post]
17 May 2018, 6:59 pm
One of our dedicated DuPage County divorce attorneys at Kathryn L. [read post]
16 May 2019, 10:00 am
Kamala Harris (D-CA) elevated the crisis of federal and state governments’ disregard for protecting the right to counsel for people charged with crimes. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 12:05 pm
Clayton County. [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 12:19 pm
He also added recommendations for the Legislature to address the problem.Them againTwo judges in Harris County are responsible for 20 percent of all youth prison commitments statewide, the Houston Chronicle's Keri Blakinger reported.Family pleas for justiceA family has filed a federal civil rights suit against League City police after the alleged wrongful death of their son, who was shot in the back and stabbed in the incident that led to his death.Texas can't execute… [read post]
1 Jul 2018, 1:40 pm
Gore (2000) in his early years on the Court to Shelby County v. [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 4:03 pm
That notion has become deeply embedded in police officer culture and underlies many of the incidents that most inflame the public.None of this is intended to diminish real-life tragedies like that which befell Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal - who recently was shot to death by a mentally ill parolee at a traffic stop - only to put the relative risks in context. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 12:15 pm
One of the main vendors, Harris Corp., even had agencies sign non-disclosure agreements. [read post]
30 Jun 2013, 6:07 am
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals withdrew its prior decision in the Harris County habeas writ for Leroy Coty, which prosecutors had considered a critical test case, following "reconsideration on its own motion." [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 4:08 pm
Today, just two agencies - Texas DPS and the Harris County Sheriff's Office - employ nearly all of the fewer than two dozen forensic hypnotists in the state.Indeed, forensic hypnosis appears to be a dying profession in Texas. [read post]
