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14 Oct 2014, 7:11 am
Texas Lawyer has a report on Travis County's new indigent defense system (Oct. 9) in which attorney assignments have been outsourced to a nonprofit organization operated by the local criminal defense bar. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 6:46 am
Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton has insisted in the past that his hands are tied when it comes to participation in the federal Secure Communities program, which requires jails to place immigration holds on arrestees who are otherwise eligible for release, even though most of them were charged with minor offenses, including traffic offenses and there's scant evidence the program improved public safety.A few years later, though, we now know that it's simply false that… [read post]
Not a Good Idea After a Los Angeles DUI Arrest: Having Sex in the Cop Car While Being Driven to Jail
6 Oct 2014, 11:21 pm
Heather Basten and Travis Husnik allegedly started having sexual intercourse in the back of a police car while being driven to jail after a DUI stop and arrest. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 7:59 am
The Court of Criminal Appeals ruled DeLay was not guilty because Travis County prosecutors could not prove he believed the corporate funds he was funneling to state candidates were “criminal proceeds. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 12:09 pm
Travis County District Judge Gisela Triana last month ruled that the Texas Public Information Act applies to private prison records, reported the blog Texas Prison Bidness. [read post]
17 Sep 2014, 7:58 am
Wiggins in Livingston County relying upon Matter of Wallman v. [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 7:20 pm
But Edwyn Durant, Reginald Trammon, and Jermario Anderson presented no evidence that Deputy Travis Leslie violated their constitutional rights. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 4:19 pm
The opening panel—moderated by Tom Williams, partner at Haynes and Boone and FOIFT vice president—included Elisabeth Earle, Travis County Court At Law judge; Joe Shannon, Tarrant County district attorney; and Joel White, First Amendment attorney and FOIFT board member and provided a lively conversation on “Rights, Roadblocks and the Public’s Access to the Courts. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 3:55 pm
Police departments from across the country participate as well, including SWAT teams from Newark, Dallas, Chicago, and Travis County, Texas. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 7:45 am
Rick Perry and his defense team have characterized his recent two felony abuse of power indictments by a Travis County Grand Jury as “banana Republic politics. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 4:09 am
[JURIST] A judge for a Travis County Civil Court in Texas ruled Thursday that the Texas Legislature [official websites] failed to meet its constitutional duty to provide for Texas public schools [judgement, PDF] because the school finance system is structured, operated, and funded so that it cannot provide a constitutionally adequate education for all Texas schoolchildren. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 5:25 am
") In both Dallas and Travis Counties, astonishingly, 73 percent of jail inmates incarcerated on that day were there awaiting trial as of August 1.Even so, I stand by my assessment that the number of pretrial defendants could be reasonably lowered to at least half or less of the overall jail population in Texas' larger counties. [read post]
25 Aug 2014, 4:49 pm
Rick Perry's pretrial writ of habeas corpus (pdf) asking a district judge (and ultimately the Court of Criminal Appeals) to bar his prosecution for abuse of power in the Travis County Public Integrity Unit veto scandal based on constitutional grounds. [read post]
22 Aug 2014, 4:58 am
Rick Perry on two felony counts, saying he abused his office and used a veto threat to coerce Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 9:12 pm
While health officials say transmission of the infection to customers is not likely, the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department is recommending people contact their doctor if they ate at that specific Whataburger between August 7 and Tuesday and fit the following criteria: are 75 years old or older are immune-compromised have chronic liver disease or have had a liver transplant have clotting-factor disorders are experiencing hepatitis A symptoms If you do not… [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
Take Perry’s demand that Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg resign or else have the funding for her office cut off. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 7:53 pm
While health officials say transmission of the infection to customers is not likely, the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department is recommending people contact their doctor if they ate at that specific Whataburger between August 7 and Tuesday and fit the following criteria: are 75 years old or older are immune-compromised have chronic liver disease or have had a liver transplant have clotting-factor disorders are experiencing hepatitis A symptoms If you do not… [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 6:39 pm
We invest a tremendous amount of time and effort to ensure food safety, so we have a team actively managing the situation, and we are working closely with the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 9:56 am
Cornell law professor Michael Dorf, for instance, is unpersuaded by the veto power argument: Governor Perry’s defense team is at least initially taking the position that Perry has done nothing wrong because he was simply exercising one of the powers that the Texas Constitution vests in him as governor, namely vetoing legislation, in this instance the entire budget of the public corruption unit overseen by the Travis County District Attorney. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 7:58 am
Perry threatened to veto $7.4 million in state funding to the Travis County Public Integrity Unit, an initiative that... [read post]
