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16 Oct 2007, 12:40 am
About a week later, a Texas appeals court stayed the execution of another convicted killer, Heliberto Chi, giving the state 30 days to explain why the sentence should be carried out. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 4:42 am
(The biggest items in Prop 4 by far are new prisons and fixing up DPS crime labs.)Particularly annoying, not to mention fiscally irresponsible, I don't understand why the Legislature is asking voters to issue debt to pay for maintenance and repairs at several state agencies. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 1:53 am
"Alba's testimony was crucial for Travis County prosecutors.Though all of Texas' major innocence reforms failed during the 2007 Legislature, other states are facing up to the problem, and Texas should follow their lead. [read post]
14 Oct 2007, 6:40 am
" However, legislatures in California, North Carolina and Texas have authorized collaborative law. [read post]
14 Oct 2007, 3:08 am
Having just mentioned that incarceration growth is driving higher taxes at the local level, I was interested to see that a conservative group called "Americans For Prosperity" has come out to oppose the bonds for new prison building and other expenses proposed on Texas' Nov. 6 ballot.This is the first organization to come out publicly against the statewide Debt-A-Palooza the Legislature placed before voters this fall. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 1:54 am
Felons in Texas face life-long consequences for even a single felonious mistake, and the Legislature has created 2,324 separate felonies to chose from. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 9:17 am
As the state of Texas points out in its brief, the president is asserting an authority that intrudes on Congress, state legislatures, and state and federal judiciaries. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 4:59 am
This year, Texas enacted legislation requiring immigration officials to be notified when a noncitizen is convicted of misdemeanor family violence. 'It is definitely a trend, and the major reason is the obvious one - federal inaction on the issue,' said Ann Morse of the National Council of State Legislatures. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 2:04 am
So with the November elections looming, lets take a look at new jails and prisons proposed this year by Texas pols - more than $600 million total, plus other sundry criminal justice expenses.Statewide, the Legislature wrapped debt to pay for new prisons into a larger, more innocuous set of bond proposals that goes before voters Nov. 6. [read post]
7 Oct 2007, 3:13 pm
Those who carry water for the Texas Taliban in the state legislature engaged in quite a lot of mischief in the last session, in their unrelenting efforts to make public education in Texas an outpost of various Christian sects dominant... [read post]
7 Oct 2007, 1:19 pm
"In the 2007 Texas Legislature, State Rep. [read post]
6 Oct 2007, 3:55 pm
We supposed that growing hostility to civil lawsuits in the Texas legislature, governor's office, and judiciary helps explain the drop. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 5:00 pm
In enacting Section 171.1011, the Legislature directed the Comptroller to adopt rules to further explain certain aspects of total revenue. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 7:18 pm
The juxtaposition of what the Constitution says about states entering the Union and what it does not say about them leaving, indicates that the door to the Union swings in but not out.Dorf also quotes the 1868 case of Texas v White where the Court said "The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 8:22 am
Rick Perry or Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson could form a commission without legislative approval, as could the state Court of Criminal Appeals.The news comes with another non-capital exoneration in Harris County, stemming from HPD's crime lab woes. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 1:08 am
On Sunday the Longview News Journal reported that the Smith County Sheriff and Tyler Police Department will not allow their officers to use new discretion to give citations instead of arrest for low-level, non-violent offenders - the only bill passed at the Texas Legislature in 2007 aimed at reducing jail overcrowding. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 6:10 pm
Public "warning messages" although not much, may thwart some from vigilantism which is occurring today more than folks realize.Our recent review of sex offender registry mapping (SORM) websites has revealed disturbing facts, each of the items below was found to be true of one or more of the mapping websites:1) State legislatures or local police have not approved them for use, yet we have seen state registry websites show links to them. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 12:30 pm
Having criticized the Texas Legislature for leaving many of the Youth Commission's biggest problems unaddressed while claiming to have "fixed" the agency, I should give credit where credit's due over the decision to end the contract at the Coke County facility. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 6:21 am
I was actually always quite proud of this work and disappointed the public-safety solutions I proposed never gained traction in the homeland security or state health department.Those interested in the topic should take a look at the linked historical documents, both written when I was in charge of homeland security issues for the ACLU of Texas. [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 9:17 am
Austin's KEYE-TV exposes what may euphemistically be termed the 'lax' voting procedure of the Texas legislature, or if you were to apply the rules those same legislators propose for the rest of us - intentional, widespread voting fraud. [read post]
