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17 Sep 2016, 1:34 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few odds and ends which haven't made it into independent posts but merit Grits readers' attention:Beating (up) Devon AndersonIn Harris County, critics are now piling on incumbent District Attorney Devon Anderson, sometimes for things under her control and sometimes not. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 9:02 am by John Floyd
  A 2011 Grits For Breakfast post pointed out that former Harris County District Clerk Chris Daniel did not collect “hundreds of thousands of dollars in court costs since taking office in January because, critics say, it would hurt business for bail bondsmen who contributed to his campaign. [read post]
11 Sep 2016, 1:37 pm by John Floyd
The Houston Chronicle carried a recent report that the Harris County District Attorney’s Office had dismissed 90 misdemeanor and felony drug cases because a local Constable’s Office “improperly destroyed evidence. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 9:37 am by Earl Drott
According to the complaint filed by the plaintiff in Harris County, Texas, the accident occurred when the plaintiff’s car collided with a vehicle being operated by the assistant chief of police of the defendant city. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 9:37 am by Earl Drott
According to the complaint filed by the plaintiff in Harris County, Texas, the accident occurred when the plaintiff’s car collided with a vehicle being operated by the assistant chief of police of the defendant city. [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"DAs: Keep junk science if it supports our convictionsA presidential advisory commission announced it will issue a draft report critical of several different brands of junk science and the national district attorneys association went batshit crazy, issuing this Chicken-Littlish screed most notable for its breathless tone and sweeping overstatements about what seems to be a fairly modest document. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 1:02 pm by John Floyd
Despite this indisputable evidence of innocence, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office elected to retry the case. [read post]
26 Aug 2016, 1:20 pm by Michael
Michael 507th District Court of Harris County Texas This Court is the newest Family District Court in Harris County, having been established in 2016. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 12:22 pm by jennifer
In 2014, the Harris County District Attorney began an audit of 456 Texas drug possession convictions and related test results. [read post]
8 Aug 2016, 10:43 am by Lindsay Stafford Mader
In the past, he has served as chair of the State Bar’s Computer and Technology Section, a large-section representative to the bar’s Board of Directors, a board member of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, and chair of the Criminal Defense Lawyers Project. [read post]
6 Aug 2016, 11:52 am by John Floyd
  Defense Lawyer Stands for Rights of Victims   The newspaper reported that Sean Buckley, the attorney now representing the rape victim identified only as “Jane Doe,” delivered a letter on August 1 to Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson requesting that her office investigate whether the prosecutors responsible for the jailing of Ms. [read post]
23 Jul 2016, 4:39 am by SHG
Devon Anderson, the elected district attorney of Harris County, was not about to take this slur on her good offices lying down. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 11:54 am by CJLF Staff
The prison has been on lockdown since the incident occurred and both the district attorney's office and the police department are investigating the incident.CA AG Offers two Definitions of Rape as Violent Crime:  California Attorney General Kamala Harris' recently released annual crime report revealed that violent crime jumped 10% in 2015 from the previous year, with a 36.1% increase in rape; however, another Harris document… [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 10:44 am by Sandra Thompson
Credit also goes to Inger Chandler, the chief of the District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit, who followed up on a tip about possible wrongful convictions and tracked down all the lab reports indicating "No Controlled Substance" that Miller had been sending the DA's office for years. [read post]
8 Jul 2016, 1:39 pm by Amy Starnes
He spent his 2L summer with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office and MBA summer with Pantheon of Women Producers. [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 5:23 am by Mark S. Humphreys
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson that a Houston-based insurance agent has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after a Texas Department of Insurance investigation uncovered an annuity scam, in which she bilked almost a dozen elderly clients out of more than $3 million. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 12:55 pm by John Floyd
  “Under chapter 87, a district judge may remove a county officer (e.g., a district attorney) from office for incompetency, official misconduct, or intoxication. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 10:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"The convictions that were gained, any type of trials that were had that had a breath test that involved one of her machines is now called into question," said [attorney Dan] Krieger.The Galveston County District Attorney's Office confirmed to Eyewitness News that it has sent out Brady letters to attorneys in all pending DWI cases worked on by Martinez. [read post]