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10 Feb 2009, 8:34 am
That fell to Travis County state District Judge Charlie Baird, who agreed to hear testimony in the case last week after being asked to by the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 5:38 pm
In Travis County, a JP has come under fire for issuing personal bonds in cases where defendants allegedly committed serious new crimes. [read post]
9 Mar 2014, 9:47 am
“I think many people recognize that substance use is a problem in our community, but jail doesn’t solve that problem specifically,” said Travis County Court-at-Law Judge Nancy Hohengarten, who is helping lead the effort. [read post]
12 Mar 2016, 8:50 am
The public accepts that these problems must be addressed, even if at least four members of the Court of Criminal Appeals do not.Travis DA main impediment to compensating Fran and Dan KellerFran and Dan Keller had their false conviction overturned in part because of debunked junk science in their case, but the courts and Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg have refused to acknowledge their innocence so they may be compensated. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 2:00 pm
(CT), the time at which the Dallas County Commissioners Court’s Declaration of Local Disaster expires. [read post]
5 May 2013, 9:16 am
(Coverage from the Caller Times is behind their paywall.)Between the Anderson and Jimenez indictments and Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg sitting in the county jail over a DWI, this has been a harsh few weeks for the prosecutorial profession in Texas. [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am
With Labor Day off, let's take an opportunity to clear Grits' browser tabs of stories which won't immediately make it into individual blog posts:Celebrate the CCA by sunsetting itThe Texas Court of Criminal Appeals turns 125 this year, according to a perfunctory salute and abbreviated history from the state bar. [read post]
5 Dec 2015, 5:37 am
Lehmberg disagreed that her office had missed the deadline and asked a Travis County court to overturn Paxton's order earlier this month. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 12:33 pm
The Austin Court of Appeals granted mandamus (conditionally) because the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure doesn’t allow a defendant to waive a jury trial without the state’s consent. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 9:50 am
Travis County, Civil No. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 3:55 pm
Harris and Tarrant counties already have such programs, and Bexar, Travis and El Paso counties are joining in. [read post]
21 Feb 2016, 5:09 am
I'll be watching the Travis County Sheriff's race to learn whether and how voters considered immigration-ICE issues, but I'm not convinced there are implications beyond that.Statewide, I'll be watching the Sid Harle/Sid Smith race on the Court of Criminal Appeals to see if Texas GOP voters have flat-out lost their minds, and the Keel-Oldner-Wheless race to see if Judge Wheless' strategy of ignoring the establishment and seeking Tea Party,… [read post]
20 May 2012, 6:09 am
Former Travis County District Judge Charlie Baird, a past member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals who is currently competing in a heated primary for District Attorney, wrote an 18-page opinion in the Todd Willingham court of inquiry that was never issued because an appellate court shut the process down, reported Michael McLaughlin at the Huffington Post:A Texas judge who reviewed the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham… [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 10:26 pm
So I was excited when I get the jury summons in the mail, and almost immediately went to my computer to fill out the new I-Jury online impaneling that Travis County now uses. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 9:35 am
In this case…the issues and procedures were nearly identical in the Travis County (criminal) and Brazos County (revocation) proceedings. [read post]
5 May 2014, 9:30 am
That includes "Dallas County Juvenile Department ($88,942), Travis County Juvenile Probation Department ($100,000), Atascosa County Juvenile Probation Department ($300,000), Harris County, Texas ($237,693), and Webb County, Texas ($250,000). [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 1:23 pm
While two earlier execution dates this year were postponed, the courts refused to intervene a third time. [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 2:15 pm
In the Texas counties of Tarrant and Travis, each day of additional detention (up to 30 days) increased the likelihood of conviction by 2 percent. [read post]
25 Jul 2015, 10:13 am
This WSJ editorial summarizes the case:A special prosecutor in notorious Travis County essentially charged Mr. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 7:32 am
The first group of counties (Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, Collin, Denton, El Paso, Hidalgo and Fort Bend), the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals and the 14 Courts of Appeal become mandatory January 1, 2014. [read post]
