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6 Jan 2009, 3:19 am
This month, the Texas Legislature will open its 81st session with a $10 billion budget surplus. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 2:00 pm
What the courts can do here is punt this back to the legislature. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 9:48 am
But even in Texas, where 18 of the 37 executions occurred last year, the number of death sentences has declined by half over the last decade.In New Mexico, the state high court ruled last year that death penalties couldn't be pursued unless the Legislature budgeted adequate funding for legal representation of condemned inmates who could not afford their own lawyers. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 9:34 am
Straus is holding a news conference right now, stating that he has 92 votes pledged. [read post]
3 Jan 2009, 11:25 pm
State papers have been publishing editorials on what the legislature should accomplish. [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 12:03 am
Bush to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.The cartel wars in Juarez (El Paso's sister city) claimed more than 1,500 victims while corruption increased on the US side and a Texas Sheriff who received millions in drug-war grants was discovered on a cartel's payroll.The Great Eldorado Polygamist RoundupTYC Turmoil: Conservators come and go, then finally a new commissionerHarris County DA Chuck Rosenthal's unlikely fall from graceCommissary corruption among… [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 10:44 pm
BAKERmaxbaker@star-telegram.comAfter seeing money earmarked for DNA testing get swept away in the Bernard Madoff scandal, the chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas is calling on state lawmakers to improve overall funding for agencies investigating cases of inmates who may have been wrongfully convicted.Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas at Texas Tech University, said so much more could be done to resolve the cases if the… [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 10:49 am
A total of 21 have been set through May, led by Texas with 11. [read post]
28 Dec 2008, 9:58 pm
The recidivism rate in the Texas pipeline is 50 percent.Unfortunately, the Sunset Advisory Commission failed to endorse shifting Texas youth prisons toward a "Missouri model" approach in its staff report, but if money is available, there's still a decent chance the 81st Texas Legislature may decide to go that route. [read post]
26 Dec 2008, 12:32 pm
Last year, he managed to repeal the Texas Centennial Commission's authority to condemn land — about 70 years after the state celebrated its 100th anniversary. [read post]
26 Dec 2008, 3:12 am
And that doesn't even begin to address problems at state mental hospitals, state schools for the mentally retarded, nor poor quality public schools which consciously channel their failures into the justice system.The Legislature's $200 million investment in prison diversion programs in 2007, which staved off the state's short-term need for new prison construction, is a prime example how, for many dilemmas facing Texas justice, functional… [read post]
26 Dec 2008, 1:35 am
" For too long Texas' border policy has been held hostage to the governor's political concerns, and for once the state should prioritize security over showmanship. [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 3:50 pm
Texas, or of the improper advice to S.A.K. about her "illegal" relationship that resulted in L.B. moving back to Nebraska, is simply outrageous.. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 5:37 pm
On the innocence front, state Senators Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock) and Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) say they'll team up during the 81st Texas Legislature to extend compensation to families of innocent inmates who died in prison before they were exonerated, creating a mechanism to formally clear the name of those unhappy souls who did not live to see their innocence proven.This effort stems from the Tim Cole case out of Lubbock, where a Texas Tech student was… [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 4:49 am
Beardall, who also is an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, says the decision in Rothgery impacts not only Texas but also other states where the timing of appointing counsel for indigents remained an unresolved issue. [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 12:57 am
While working as a lobbyist for Energy Future Holdings (formerly TXU) in 2007, he helped push a $45 billion LBO of the company by Goldman Sachs, KKR, and TPG Capital through the Texas legislature. [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 3:56 pm
Mitchell looks like a very significant case about the role of the Texas Supreme Court in relation to the Texas Legislature. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 12:30 pm
The court of appeals has decided an important question of state and federal constitutional law in a way that conflicts with an applicable decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; to wit, Campbell v. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 7:06 am
That dynamic may be seen in this Odessa American story ("Possible Pyote Closing," Dec. 16) about the possible closure of TYC's West Texas State School:Less than a year after the last battle, David Cutbirth is ready to fight again to keep the West Texas State School in Pyote. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 7:00 am
Judge Price also concurred to disagree with Presiding Judge Keller because it would relegate the CCA to the role of an appellate court when the Texas Constitution and the Legislature has vested the CCA with original jurisdiction over writs. [read post]
