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29 Mar 2012, 7:13 am by Matthew Kolken
They also interviewed federal and local law enforcement officials at the US Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (USCBP), Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Houston Police Department, and Tucson Police Department. [read post]
24 May 2016, 1:02 pm by CJLF Staff
  Yuma County, Ariz., Sheriff Leon N. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 8:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“A procedural default will not bar a federal habeas court from hearing those claims if, in the initial-review collateral proceeding, there was no counsel or counsel in the proceeding was ineffective,” the court majority held.Habeas lawyers investigate issues that could or should have been raised during a defendant’s original trial.The ruling may have direct implications for a case mentioned recently on Grits:The ruling could also be a boon for death row inmate Rob Will, who… [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 1:28 pm
  When he was convicted in Harris County in 1996, all 12 jurors voted that he would be a future danger, and Nenno was sentenced to death. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 7:43 am
Allman, the Mendocino County sheriff has handed out nearly 100 plant tags and permits to collectives across his county. [read post]
23 Aug 2010, 11:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And the numbers provide little comfort to the families of victims across the region where 850 deaths have yet to result in arrests.Even with its greater ability to solve these violent crimes, the Houston Police Department still had 550 unsolved murders; Harris County had about 170. [read post]
21 Feb 2016, 7:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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 by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
15 Oct 2017, 11:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
.'When cash bail violates the Constitution'This op ed included a notable quote from Judge Lee Rosenthal's opinion, “For misdemeanor defendants unable to pay secured money bail, Harris County maintains a ‘sentence first, conviction after’ system that pressures misdemeanor defendants to plead guilty … because that is the only way to secure timely release from detention. [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 4:03 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
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 by Gritsforbreakfast
"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]
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]
14 Nov 2018, 4:08 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
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]
5 Jul 2017, 7:35 am by Michael Lowe
Three years later, she gets a letter from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office letting her know that she had been convicted in error. [read post]