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30 Jul 2011, 11:41 am
In San Antonio, Bexar County and the surrounding counties, I have repeatedly had prosecutors tell me during plea negotiations that an offer they made my client was higher than normal due to my client's prior arrests. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 5:50 pm
Illnesses occurred in residents of Bexar, Travis, Guadelupe, and Hidalgo counties. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 9:12 am by Michael Lowe
Seems that Jim Kopp, who had been an assistant district attorney down in the Bexar County District Attorney’s office (serving the San Antonio area) since 1985, quit a couple of weeks ago after he spent some time in the Bandera County Jail, not as a prosecutor but as a criminal. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 5:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Wendy Davis that encourages testing rape kit backlogs, when Tarrant County tested their entire backlog they identified five serial rapists by matching the results to CODIS. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 1:14 am
This after the Bexar County Sheriff's office arrested him for failing to register as a sex offender. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 9:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" See related Grits posts:  Senate bills encourage retention, testing of old DNA evidenceDNA could solve burlgaries if crime labs were bigger, better, more trustworthy 'The DNA's over there, right next to the jelly: The problems with the preservation of evidence in Texas' Backlog of DNA cases complicates Houston crime lab's bias problems Large backlogs for DPS forensics testingUnanalyzed evidence held by law enforcement agenciesTest possible innocence… [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 9:29 am by Susan I. Nelson
In a letter to lawmakers last week, a group of Texas sheriffs and police chiefs, including SAPD Chief Bill McManus and Bexar County Sheriff Amadeo Ortiz, wrote: “Alienating any sector of our community from law enforcement is not good for Texas and is not good for our society. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 7:58 am by Michael M. O'Hear
  They identify the agreement between Bexar County, Texas, and the San Antonio Spurs as a model of a strong agreement that seems much better designed than the Seattle contract to keep a franchise in its city over the long run. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 1:21 pm by Steve Hall
Bexar County has seen only three death sentences since 2007.It looks like Texas is having second thoughts about death sentences, and executions.In 2010, Texas carried out 17 lethal injections, the fewest since 2001. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 8:01 am by Steve Hall
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles — both in the uncommon position of making a decision with international impact — should commute or postpone the death sentence of Humberto Leal, a Mexican raised in Texas, scheduled to die July 7 for the 1994 murder of Adria Sauceda, 16, in Bexar County. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 7:36 am by Steve Hall
Leal was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1994 kidnap, rape and murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda in Bexar County. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 4:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Tyler officials should listen to voters, use new tools to reduce jail overcrowding Sheriffs more likely than PDs to welcome new arrest discretion Jefferson County works out kinks with new cite and summons authority How one Texas county will take advantage of new law to reduce jail overcrowding HB 2391 could save Bexar taxpayers $10,000 per day Cite and summons for low-level offenses could free up jail space Texas Lege approved new tools to reduce jail… [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 8:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At least one Texas county seems willing to think outside the box ... er, the cell ... when it comes to reining in incarceration costs. [read post]
25 May 2011, 1:56 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Sheriff said "no," but it's a safe bet Bexar isn't the only county in which Washington is seeking such an arrangement. [read post]
10 May 2011, 3:59 pm
Illnesses occurred in residents of Bexar, Travis, Guadelupe, and Hidalgo counties. [read post]