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7 Jan 2010, 9:21 am
The Texas Legislature does not return in regular session until January 2011, following this year's November general election. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 8:38 am
In any event, Abbott said the "acceptance" requirement only made sense when pardons are "conditional" and does not apply in posthumous innocence cases.Abbott also noted that the Texas Legislature had authorized compensation for false convictions "including a person who received a posthumous pardon," language which "appears to recognize the shift in United States Supreme Court precedent. [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 1:26 pm
(The Texas legislature convenes every other year.) [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 11:41 am
Even the most lethal states (Texas and Virginia) veered away from condemning people to death. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 3:47 pm
The Colorado state legislature has been among the first states to take on this issue by introducing HB 09-1132 during the 2009 First Regular Legislative Session. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 2:38 pm
For example, caps have been upheld in Alaska, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia, but overturned in Georgia, Illinois, and Indiana. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 7:21 am
A statute is a law passed by the state legislature. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:12 pm
Claire Pierce, a Virginia legal assistant, took on the Virginia legislature in an effort to change state workers' compensation law to protect workers who do not die immediately at an accident scene and are unable to testify on their own behalf. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:01 pm
” Click Here Texas beekeepers weigh in on impact of New York judge’s order. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:06 am
But, she says, her office is seeking the death penalty less often than it used to, largely because since 2005, the state Legislature gave prosecutors the option of life without parole. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 8:04 am
Whatever the circumstances, we're grateful the question of ending the state's death penalty will get consideration in the Legislature. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 7:29 am
Eleven Texas death row inmates have been exonerated.In 2009, we dealt with disturbing developments in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004 for the slaying of his three children in a fire.A state-commissioned report said law-enforcement witnesses who offered key testimony "had poor understandings of fire science. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 4:00 am
Barring a special session, the Texas Legislature won’t meet in 2010. [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 9:45 am
” American Girl pioneered the path to coverage that would be followed by the Texas Supreme Court and others. [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 5:06 am
And as for "other, this is a function of the proliferation of boutique crimes through the dozens of new crimes and "enhancements" passed by the Texas Legislature every two years (including 59 new felonies created in 2009). [read post]
1 Jan 2010, 6:59 am
Legislation to remedy those abuses died as a result of the end-of-session voter ID meldtown in the Texas House of Representatives.No more juvie LWOP: The Texas Legislature abolished life without parole for juveniles, setting the max sentence for juvenile offenses at 40 years. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 2:10 pm
A bill adding transgender people to the Texas hate crimes law was introduced but never taken up. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 10:33 am
Congress and Legislatures in most of the 50 states will all be back in session as 2010 begins. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 9:16 am
During 2009, some significant steps were taken in ten (10) of the above listed states to end capital punishment: notably, in Connecticut, the state legislature actually passed a law that would have ended the death penalty but the state governor vetoed the bill. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 9:09 am
Texas Legislature Leaves Restaurant Industry Alone - Find out what the Texas legislature did and did not do in 2009. 5 Reasons You Think You Don’t Need a Lawyer to Buy a Restaurant - Sometimes you need a lawyer and sometimes you don’t. [read post]
