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14 Jun 2016, 11:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Politifact found that "false" because Harris ranked only 138 among Texas counties for local incarceration rates in the county jail. [read post]
31 May 2016, 1:50 pm by David Kravets
In Texas, it's legal to have sex with somebody as young as 17 years old. [read post]
26 May 2016, 7:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Department of Justice attorneys have been monitoring conditions in Harris County jail since 2008. [read post]
19 May 2016, 6:50 pm by Rebecca Bernhardt
 Harris County Sheriff Hickman is also holding some people in jails in Beaumont and Texarkana due to overcrowding in the Harris County Jail system.In April of this year Harris County received a $2 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to reform its criminal justice system. [read post]
19 May 2016, 6:43 am by Mark S. Humphreys
The decedent and Tallet participated in a marriage ceremony on July 2, 2007, in Harris County, Texas. [read post]
18 May 2016, 4:30 am by theadm
A Harris County, Texas jury awarded $1.5 million to Jack Grynberg and his family, finding that Exxon Mobil did not act in good faith in determining the mineral royalties the company owed him. [read post]
6 May 2016, 1:29 pm by John Floyd
”   Harris County’s Bail System Stinks   In his op-ed published in Reasonable Doubt entitled “Harris County: Your Self Praise Stinks,” defense lawyer Robert Fickman sums it up succinctly: “It’s real simple. [read post]
5 May 2016, 7:51 am by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
 With this in mind, the District Clerk in Harris County, Texas thought that it might be a good idea to liven up the wait by bringing in police K-9 dogs during Juror Appreciation Week to show jurors how these dogs discover drugs. [read post]
2 May 2016, 12:33 pm by Amy Starnes
After the event there will be an opportunity to talk to judges and local officials who discovered her story in Harris County files. [read post]
2 May 2016, 6:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Edgar Walters at the Texas Tribune has a fine story detailing the quandary state officials find themselves in regarding funding for criminal defendants' competency restoration at state mental hospitals. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 1:38 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
”“This tremendous opportunity is happening only because of Doug Deason’s passion for this issue and his passion for SMU,” she said.Collins said the combined $7 million allows the law school to hire an executive director, an outreach director and additional faculty in the field.In other news about reform investments, here's an item about Harris County's MacArthur grant and local efforts in Harris County (short of bail abolition… [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 10:55 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
Those affected taxpayers in Fayette, Grimes, Harris and Parker counties will have until September 1, 2016, to file their returns and pay any taxes due. [read post]
25 Apr 2016, 6:28 am by Joy Waltemath
A jury in Harris County, Texas, returned a $17.7 million verdict in favor of the family of a 55-year-old ironworker who drowned during the construction of a pedestrian bridge for Baylor University’s football stadium in January 2014, finding from among several companies, only Austin Bridge and Road, L.P. was liable for the fatality. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 11:21 am by Amy Howe
On April 4, a unanimous Court upheld the Texas voting map. [read post]