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31 Aug 2013, 8:01 am by Bill Marler
Most Texas cases are reported from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 5:28 pm by Bill Marler
Most Texas cases are reported from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 6:27 am
I was thinking about a nasty milestone that is coming up - probably this week, when Lonnie Johnson is set to become the 100th prisoner to be put to death out of Harris County, Texas on July 24, 2007. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 12:19 pm by David Austin
Despite an initial backlash against what they perceived to be an overstep of mayoral authority, Baytown officials and state lawmakers seem to be falling in step, at least in principle, with Houston Mayor Bill White’s efforts to curtail benzene emissions from east Harris County refineries. [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 8:00 am by Mike Habib, EA
Genevieve, Stone, Taney, Texas, Wayne, and Wright counties. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 2:08 pm by Lindsay Stafford Mader
This was followed by Houston-area bar associations, which sponsored a CLE on July 31, 2014, that attracted 500 attendees—including State Bar of Texas President Trey Apffel—and spurred a thank you letter from the Harris County Attorney’s Office. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 9:06 am by Steve Hall
Juries in Harris County (where Houston is located) were once notable for handing down death sentences. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 1:18 pm
The February 4, 2014 notice expanded the HHA moratoria to Broward County, Florida; Dallas County, Texas; Harris County, Texas; and Wayne County, Michigan and surrounding counties. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 12:19 pm by Herman Martinez
When it comes to dealing with a DWI charge in Houston, Harris County, Texas, a lot of issues have to be looked at. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 6:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
These new sentences occurred in six counties: Brazos; Dallas; Harris; Nueces; Rusk; and Travis. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 5:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Dallas partnered with the Innocence Project of Texas to set up a system to vet potential false convictions, while most other counties (besides Harris) tend to react defensively to the possibility and fly by the seat of their pants instead of submitting the cases through a well-defined vetting process.Grits agrees Tarrant's open file policy represents the gold standard among Texas prosecutors, but no one should get carried away by that to reach the conclusion… [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 11:22 am by Mario Madrid
  A couple of weeks ago a man in Harris County, Texas was on trial for Capital Murder. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 8:12 pm by Herman Martinez
  In Houston, Harris County, Texas most lawyers do not get involved in the initial bonding process. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 8:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's how the same Grits post described the episode:The Texas Supreme Court declared Coke's election invalid in an extraordinary habeas corpus writ styled Ex Parte Rodriguez - a petition by a man accused of voting twice in a Harris County election. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 5:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I've noticed a number of remarkable Texas police misconduct stories in the news recently that deserve Grits readers' attention: Ripping off drug dealers A Harris County Sheriff's deputy has been arrested for allegedly conspiring with drug dealers to rip off their customers, reports James Pinkerton at the Houston Chronicle:"It sounds like this person was using his position in law enforcement to act as muscle for a drug dealers, and this what is called… [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 9:06 am by Allison Tussey
Kirk Smith, Harris County, Texas, has been ordered to prison following his conviction for defrauding seven different Houston, Texas-area banks of more than $2 million in 2007 and 2008 with a check kiting scheme, which allowed him to use inflated account balances to qualify for loans and lines of credit. [read post]
While writing the citation, the police officer ran my client’s driver’s license & found he had multiple warrants for traffic tickets out of Houston, along with his passenger, who also had multiple warrants in Houston & Harris County. [read post]
21 Jan 2013, 9:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The question deserves further investigation.Looking beyond those few, crowded jails to the big picture, however, compared to just a few years ago when the largest Texas counties exceeded capacity and Harris County was shipping prisoners off to Louisiana, Texas' jail overcrowding problems have largely subsided statewide, especially in the largest jurisdictions. [read post]
17 Nov 2006, 2:49 pm
While experts offer different reasons for the drop in death sentences in Texas, one thing is sure: No Texas county has experienced a sharper decline in sending prisoners to death row than Harris County, which had been known as one of the busiest death penalty jurisdictions in the nation. [read post]