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8 Sep 2007, 11:36 pm
The Texas Rangers are investigating the connections and meanwhile, just to add to the irony, Premier's co-owner Patrick LeBlanc announced his candidacy for the Louisiana state legislature last week on an anti-corruption platform.Once again I find myself as interested in the pattern of prosecution as the alleged crimes themselves. [read post]
8 Sep 2007, 6:57 am
" He pointed to recent multimillion-dollar campaigns largely funded by interest groups for state Supreme Court seats in Ohio, Wisconsin and Washington state, and partisan battles over top judicial posts in Texas, where all judges are elected by political party.More, from a story in the Inland Press Enterprise:George announced creation of the commission Tuesday. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 6:35 pm
A state Senate committee has approved a bill to end capital punishment formally; the full legislature is expected to pass it later this year. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 1:17 am
The California state legislature has sent three bills related to innocence topics to the Governor for his signature or veto, according to a column in the San Jose Mercury News by the state Senate majority leader. [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 11:00 am
Combs, et al., decided on August 23rd, in which the Texas Thirteenth Court of Appeals denied the exemption for replacement parts for and repair services to dragline machines, or “draglines,” used in the surface mining of lignite coal that was to be used in power plants (for more about the Texas coal mining industry, see the web site of the Texas Mining and Reclamation Association, or TMRA). [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 9:19 am
LINK Texas' relentless pace of state-sponsored killing is the greatest moral challenge facing lawmakers today. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 12:05 am
Designed to squeeze more money from traffic violators during the 2003 budget crunch, the Texas Legislature created a bureaucratic monstrosity where 70% of fines go unpaid.The result: more than 10% of Texas drivers now have outstanding warrants, and the number of drivers without licenses has climbed continuously since the law's passage. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 8:41 pm
When the Legislature reconvenes in 2009, lawmakers should act on the governor's recommendation to reconsider the flawed Texas law that allows such dual trials. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 10:53 am
" But instead of ridding the state of this trap, the legislature added a second one. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 10:35 am
Hmmm, for starters, that shooting people is against the law, and the Texas Legislature legalized a pilot needle exchange program in Bexar County? [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 11:40 pm
Today's the day Texas laws passed during the 80th Legislature take effect, if they haven't already, and several new gun laws deserve Grits readers attention:Legal, stowed weapons okay in vehicleReacting to Texas prosecutors who'd continued to arrest legal gun owners in spite of the Legislature's intent in a bill from 2005, this year the Texas Legislature set in stone the rights of legal gun owners to carry a weapon in their… [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 1:23 pm
While the Texas law is broad, there are other states with similar laws. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 12:23 pm
A state Senate committee has approved a bill to end capital punishment formally; the full legislature is expected to pass it later this year. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 12:01 pm
Consider this: death penalty prosecutions in the nation's execution capital, Harris County, Texas, have been in steep decline; every major newspaper in Texas has called for a moratorium on the death penalty or opposes it entirely; and in 2005 the state legislature passed a law allowing life imprisonment without parole, which has given judges and jurors a new way to be "tough on crime" without killing people. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 6:29 am
Texas is the only state that applies the Law of Parties statute to death penalty cases. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 5:18 am
"The case has highlighted Texas's high level of execution, which remains far in excess of any other state. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 10:10 am
"I am concerned about Texas law that allows capital murder defendants to be tried simultaneously, and it is an issue I think the legislature should examine. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 7:48 am
This year, two developments at the Legislature served to further cement that reputation. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 5:18 am
"We've seen a lot of states stop executing people. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 10:57 am
(The California legislature voted to adopt this plan last year, but Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it.) [read post]
