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28 Nov 2017, 1:52 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]
The amazing lengths the Texas CCA will go to ignore police misconduct and uphold dubious convictions
21 Nov 2017, 10:24 am
Here's a crazy case out of Harris County: The Government-Always-Wins faction on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wrangled a four-member plurality on a habeas corpus writ to overturn the trial court's recommendation and uphold a conviction in which law enforcement misrepresented the weight of drugs found on a defendant, calling it 26 kilos when the real amount of actual cocaine was likely less than a gram.The reason for the discrepancy: A police officer… [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 3:55 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]
20 Nov 2017, 12:40 pm
On the other hand, if the instruments are updated and validated periodically, over time that should work itself out.Finally, in the case of bail reform - at least in the Harris County, Texas context - the maximal harm hypothesized from risk assessments simply doesn't outweigh harms from the status quo of requiring money bail for everyone:If a risk assessment system is developed on data from before risk mitigating reform, and misjudges a defendant’s true level of… [read post]
18 Nov 2017, 2:11 pm
The post Destruction of Evidence Creates Problems for Harris County Justice System appeared first on . [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 9:30 am
Harris County Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis, also a senior adviser at Dentons US and a retired Texas senator, won the 2017 TMCP Trailblazer Outside Counsel of the Year Award. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 9:30 am
Harris County Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis, also a senior adviser at Dentons US and a retired Texas senator, won the 2017 TMCP Trailblazer Outside Counsel of the Year Award. [read post]
14 Nov 2017, 10:23 am
In Bell County, the Innocence Project of Texas has a case where faulty math was submitted as evidence by the prosecution to claim a 6'3" man committed a crime which, an analysis commissioned by the Texas Forensic Science Commission found, was really committed by a man between 5'7" and 5'9. [read post]
14 Nov 2017, 5:20 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]
November Reasonably Suspicious Podcast: Let me be your lawyer dog, or I won't be your man at all ...
12 Nov 2017, 5:51 am
In Harris County in particular w [read post]
11 Nov 2017, 10:15 am
Now, in the wake of this latest decision, even the Harris County DA agrees Mr. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 7:55 am
The aftermath of a DWI conviction in Montgomery, Harris, or Walker County can be far reaching and life altering. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 1:30 am
On October 13, 2017, the Harris County District Court dismissed a constitutional due process challenge to the Texas Advance Directives Act. [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 6:31 am
Henke, Jr., for Gerald Godoy, Appellant.Sean Michael Reagan, Genevieve Graham, for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Appellee.On Appeal from the 157th District Court, Harris County, Texas, Trial Court Cause No. 2015-36417.Affirmed.Panel consists of Chief Justice Frost and Justices Boyce and Brown (Frost, C.J., dissenting).MAJORITY OPINIONWILLIAM J. [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 6:31 am
Henke, Jr., for Gerald Godoy, Appellant.Sean Michael Reagan, Genevieve Graham, for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Appellee.On Appeal from the 157th District Court, Harris County, Texas, Trial Court Cause No. 2015-36417.Affirmed.Panel consists of Chief Justice Frost and Justices Boyce and Brown (Frost, C.J., dissenting).MAJORITY OPINIONWILLIAM J. [read post]
7 Nov 2017, 10:45 am
It quickly became evident that the McLennan County legal system—not to mention the staggering costs for the incarceration, prosecution and defense of the 177 defendants the county was incurring—was faced with a growing criminal justice crisis. [read post]
7 Nov 2017, 10:43 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]
6 Nov 2017, 3:08 pm
Since the CFPB’s announcement of the culmination of its investigation of Transworld System Inc and National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts with consent order and proposed consent judgment (respectively) on September 18, 2017, only five new lawsuits have been filed on behalf of NC Trusts in Harris County, Texas; -- all by a single law firm. [read post]
6 Nov 2017, 3:08 pm
Since the CFPB’s announcement of the culmination of its investigation of Transworld System Inc and National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts with consent order and proposed consent judgment (respectively) on September 18, 2017, only five new lawsuits have been filed on behalf of NC Trusts in Harris County, Texas; -- all by a single law firm. [read post]
5 Nov 2017, 6:02 am
In a 2013 enforcement action against Midland, its servicer, and its parent company, the Texas Attorney General averred that the price Midland pays is 3.3% of the face value of the debt.Excerpt from State's Amended Original Petition in Cause No, 2011-40626 - STATE OF TEXAS (ACTING BY AND THROUGH ATTORNEY GEN vs. [read post]
