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9 Apr 2007, 3:33 am
Rodney Ellis that all deserve bipartisan support, while the House Corrections subcommittee will hear bills related to special prison populations and medical costs of elderly prisoners.Often, given the Texas Lege session's tight timeline, relegating a bill to subcommitee in the Texas Legislature means that bill has a poor chance of passage. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 12:53 am
Having been focused on the Texas Legislature while it's in session, I haven't paid as close attention to county jail issues as I did during the interim, but a lot has been happening around the state in recent weeks, enough to make me think I'll attend the May 10 Jail Standards Commission hearing (in Austin) to check out the action. [read post]
7 Apr 2007, 1:13 am
And last month the governor ofVirginia, a state whose 96 executions since 1976 are exceeded only bythose in Texas, vetoed five bills that would have expanded the use ofcapital punishment. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 1:44 pm
The Texas legislature is considering a bill that would carve out a greater role for renewable energy other than wind energy under the state's renewable portfolio standard. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 1:48 am
The Texas legislature may nonetheless expand the reach of its death penalty, as it is currently considering a bill that would make second-offense child molesters death-eligible. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 12:56 am
United States, 295 U.S. 78, 88 (1935). [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 10:13 pm
Similarly, it's been almost five years and the Texas Legislature still has not yet enacted laws to enforce the June, 2002 mandate from Atkins v. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 8:16 am
BACKGROUND INFORMATIONNearly five years on, the Texas legislature has not enacteda law to comply with the Atkins ruling. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 4:41 am
The state has put 98 inmates todeath since 1976, more than any state besides Texas. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 1:07 am
Reporter Ralph Blumenthal was particularly interested in the "strange bedfellows" aspect of the dispute, with the Texas State Rifle Association working with ACLU and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition to produce a public policy report criticizing prosecutor excesses, which I wrote, that was released last month.Blumenthal called me a "blogger" in the story, but didn't name the blog! [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 2:40 pm
Some of the anti-immigration bills filed at the Texas Legislature are the embodiment of Texas' hard-line approach and in-your-face tactics. [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 1:09 am
Eliot Spitzer said Friday the budget agreement he negotiated with the state Legislature does not contain money for the judicial pay raises he proposed in January, nor allow for the creation of a commission proposed by Chief Judge Judith S. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 2:28 pm
It was neither a lie nor an illusion that W worked well with the Democrats who ran the state legislature. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 5:14 am
"This shows the courts and the public and the North Carolina Legislature cannot trust the North Carolina Department of Correction to follow the law and follow court orders in carrying out executions," said Flippen's attorney, Thomas Loflin. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 4:50 am
It creates mandatory minimums of 15 years for said offense at a time when Texas prisons are overcrowded and the Legislature is seeking ways to reduce incarceration for nonviolent offenders.Meth manufacturing in Texas has declined since the state restricted pseudoephedrine sales - now most meth sold in this state comes up I-35 from so-called "superlabs" in Mexico. [read post]
31 Mar 2007, 8:17 am
Technorati Tags: arbitration, ADR, Texas Supreme Court, law [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 3:06 pm
Rafael Anchia (D-Dallas), would impose a 7.5 percent tax on coal purchased in Texas for use in the state. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 7:23 am
From a public policy perspective, I'd rather see the Lege requiring verified response rather than try to get in its way.Keep thorough records about officer terminationsThe issue over what records should be kept and shared with other agencies when an officer is terminated has been a hot one over the last several sessions, largely because of one man - Tom Coleman, the so-called "gypsy cop" who'd been fired from multiple law enforcement agencies before landing in Tulia,… [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 10:08 am
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29 Mar 2007, 7:46 am
It was like listening to complaints from third world countries, not the great state of Texas. [read post]
