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1 Apr 2018, 11:16 am
The shooting of Danny Ray Thomas, a mentally ill man with his pants around his ankles who was shot to death by a Harris County Sheriff's deputy, has made national headlines and led to a greater-than-ever light cast on shootings by law enforcement in Texas' largest county.Grits wanted to round up a few of the more notable stories, as this episode appears as though it will frame debates over police accountability in Texas for the foreseeable future:The… [read post]
26 Nov 2012, 6:22 pm
About the Author Michael Busby Jr. is a divorce and family law lawyer who practices in Harris County Texas and the counties that surround Harris County. [read post]
26 Nov 2012, 6:22 pm
About the Author Michael Busby Jr. is a divorce and family law lawyer who practices in Harris County Texas and the counties that surround Harris County. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 4:19 pm
The Harris County District Attorney can't hire more prosecutors, the Houston PD can't find the informant behind a botched SWAT-style narcotics raid, and the chairman of the House Corrections Committee can't understand why local government spends so much money jailing people. [read post]
1 Jun 2018, 9:28 am
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Busby Jr. is a Divorce, Family Law, & Houston Divorce Lawyer, who practices in Harris County Texas and the counties that surround Harris County, Texas. [read post]
8 May 2017, 10:15 am
Knowing this, sheriffs from Travis, Dallas, Harris, Bexar, and El Paso Counties, along with police chiefs from Dallas, Houston, Austin, Arlington, Fort Worth, and San Antonio begged the legislature not to pass this awful law. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 7:28 am
While I was away, most Texas counties approved their annual budgets and one of the big criminal justice growth areas in recent years for many of them has been rising indigent defense costs - a function of increased state regulation and the fact that the number of new cases has continued to rise (inexplicably) despite crime declining across the state.In 2009, Texas counties spent a total of $186,307,540 on indigent defense, more than a 109% increase from 2001 when… [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 7:29 am
But, due to reported problems with that system, Harris County courts also use a proprietary system not used by any other Texas courts. [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 10:00 pm
A car hit a school bus earlier today in Northwest Harris County, Houston, Texas. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 8:44 am
They should start by implementing HB 2391, the only legislation passed in 2007 by the 80th Texas Legislature aimed at reducing jail overcrowding.In both Harris and Smith counties, the Sheriffs and local PDs refused to allow their officers to use new discretion created this year by the Legislature to issue a summons instead of making an arrest for certain low-level, nonviolent offenses. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 12:45 pm
The ouster of Kim Ogg in Houston and the re-election of José Garza in Austin -- coupled with the ouster of 3 members of the Government Always Wins faction on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals -- signal a sea change in criminal-justice reform politics in Texas compared to a decade ago.Increasingly, Democrats in Texas' largest counties favor reform and in both Harris and Travis made decisive choices for progressive candidates. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 2:11 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]
3 Sep 2021, 11:02 am
But that won't affect "repeat violent offenders charged with some of Harris County's most notorious and deadly crimes. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 2:08 pm
My friend Josh Zientek points out that the orders are available in all their glory on the recently revamped Harris County District Clerk website – see The State of Texas vs. [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 3:23 pm
The citizens of Harris County, Texas deserve uniformity by the misdemeanor judges on this issue. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 1:02 pm
A justice on the First Court of Appeals in Harris County, Alcala is a former district court judge and current vice chair of the State Bar of Texas Criminal Pattern Jury Charge Committee. [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 3:30 pm
The following is a guest post from David Levine: On September 1, Harris County, Texas’ two-year-old elections department was eliminated after the Texas Legislature passed legislation earlier this year abolishing it and the State Supreme Court refused to stop the… Continue reading The post David Levine: “Countering the Distortion of Election Administrator Errors” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 12:30 pm
In the process of addressing performance issues in Harris County, technical problems have arisen regarding electronic payments. [read post]
13 Nov 2023, 7:53 pm
by Andre Davison (Follow us on LinkedIn) The Harris County Robert W. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 12:30 pm
In the process of addressing performance issues in Harris County, technical problems have arisen regarding electronic payments. [read post]
