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14 Jan 2009, 7:44 am
State - The CCA granted the State's petition for discretionary review (in both cause numbers) with oral argument in this Bexar County possession and manufacture of methamphetamine case on the following issue:The court of appeals erred in finding that jeopardy barred the prosecution of manufacturing methamphetamine and possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine on the basis that those offenses were the result of the same original impulse and could not be punished… [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 12:03 am
The main reason Texas does not currently face a prison overcrowding crisis right now has been the implementation over the last two sessions of new diversion programs at local probation departments aimed at reducing felony revocations.Most local probation departments that received new diversion funding have seen their felony revocation rates decline significantly, according to an analysis by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (pdf), but three counties receiving grants… [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 3:04 pm
The Associated Press reports that Harris County is the most dangerous county in Texas for railway accidents, according to a report released Thursday by the Texas Relocation and Improvement Association. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 8:01 am
Bexar County (San Antonio) has its own program to deal with mentally ill defendants, noted here. [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 7:48 am
" Otherwise, they might turn out to be cops and the child will be beaten and charged with resisting kidnapping arrest.Most of the time justiceFormer Bexar County DA Sam Milsap points to the cases of nine actually innocent Texans who've been exonerated off death row and says, "We cannot sanction a death penalty system that gets it right most of the time. [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 3:56 pm
Hagen, No. 07-1065 (DB), from Bexar County. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 3:41 pm
That's the title of an OpEd from the Saturday San Antonio Express-News by former Bexar County District Attorney Sam Millsap. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 4:00 pm
I am the former elected district attorney in San Antonio, Texas, the seventh-largest city in America, and was, until a few years ago, a strong supporter of the death penalty.As Bexar County district attorney, I was responsible for the prosecution of several capital murder cases, each of which resulted in the conviction and execution of the defendant. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 1:08 pm
Reported KVUE-TV, "Even if he technically wins re-election, the sheriff of Starr County is not expected to go back to work anytime soon. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 6:08 pm
After all the allegations that the Bexar County probation department made supervision decisions based on faulty, unconfirmed urinalysis tests, I was interested to see a USA Today story ("False results put drug tests under the microscope," Nov. 3) reported by scribe Mimi Hall describing the same problem with a national scope, the:use of unreliable field drug-test kits as the basis to arrest innocent people on illegal drug charges. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 1:37 pm
Austin State Representative Elliott Naishtat and former Bexar County District Attorney Sam Millsap will be participating in the news conference. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 8:03 am
The four sites are:Austin Travis County MHMR (Travis)Center for Health Care Services, San Antonio (Bexar)North'Texas Behavioral Health Authority, Dallas (Dallas)Tarrant County MHMR, Fort Worth (Tarrant) These outpatient programs are not in secure settings and are suitable when the court believes the defendant won't be a danger. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 1:55 pm
Austin State Representative Elliott Naishtat and former Bexar County District Attorney Sam Millsap will be participating in the news conference. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 7:22 am
In several Texas counties, including Lubbock, Hidalgo, and Guadalupe, local authorities are rounding up sex offenders on probation or parole to spend Halloween night in the jail or county probation offices. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 12:40 am
Add Bexar County to the growing list of Texas counties where voters say they are having trouble with touch-screen machines flipping their votes. [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 8:45 pm
Nuts and bolts of citations for low-level misdemeanors explained by Travis Sheriff's OfficeOn the source of volitional jail overcrowding in Bexar County: Why solve a problem when you can create one? [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 10:39 am
I'd be interested in learning more about the candidates from any readers following the race.Out in East Texas there's a contested Sheriff's race in Gregg County (Longview) that received good coverage in The East Texas Review. [read post]
27 Sep 2008, 1:41 pm
MARTINEZ; from Bexar County; 4th district (04-04-00184-CV, 155 SW3d 590, 12-08-04) Per Curiam OpinionMED-MAL CASE REMANDED TO ALLOW PLAINTIFF TO SEEK EXTENSION TO CURE DEFICIENCY IN EXPERT REPORTMartinez-Partido v. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 12:51 pm
TCRP is working with co-counsel from California in the Waco case who:has settled several class-action strip-search cases against county jails in at least three other states and currently has a similar suit pending in Bexar County in Texas, a Texas Civil Rights Project spokesman said. [read post]
4 Sep 2008, 9:51 pm
MARIA GUTIERREZ, INDIVIDUALLY AND ASREPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF LUIS GUTIERREZ; AND KAROL FERMAN AS NATURALPARENT AND AS NEXT FRIEND OF LUIS ANGEL GUTIERREZ; from Bexar County; 4th district(04-05-00056-CV, 220 SW3d 33, 12-20-06)The Court reverses the court of appeals' judgment and renders judgment.Justice Willett delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice O'Neill, Justice Wainwright, JusticeMedina, and Justice Green joined.Chief Justice Jefferson delivered a… [read post]
