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25 Jan 2015, 10:28 am
The political landscape in the Texas state senate during the 84th Texas Legislature, both generally and on the criminal justice front, has begun to take shape. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 6:11 am
First, the Texas legislature passed significant tort reform measures. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 5:11 am
"Indeed, because the main need is more resources and the state's leadership has long been allergic to new taxes, Texas' political leadership appears utterly incapable of approving more than band-aid fixes to this problem, meaning it's up to judges like Hohengarten to push the envelope until the legislative branch actually addresses it.County jails and state prisons have become the de facto mental health system in Texas already. [read post]
9 May 2010, 11:17 am
Federal inmates already had email privileges, but apparently the Texas Legislature didn't realize they'd authorized the same thing, reports Mike Ward at the Statesman ("Inmates get email? [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 5:22 am
The Texas Legislature this spring will consider a bill (expected to be filed next week) to close that gap in state habeas law to clarify that new, potentially exonerating scientific evidence can provide a basis for post-conviction relief. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 4:04 pm
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23 Jan 2013, 3:54 am
As The New York Times reported earlier this month, a long-shot effort is underway to move the Texas Legislature toward annual meetings. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 10:11 am
Having assigned it in a course I'm giving this semester at Harvard College, and will give next semester at the University of Texas Law School, I can attest to its pedagogical excellence. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 5:37 pm
On the innocence front, state Senators Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock) and Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) say they'll team up during the 81st Texas Legislature to extend compensation to families of innocent inmates who died in prison before they were exonerated, creating a mechanism to formally clear the name of those unhappy souls who did not live to see their innocence proven.This effort stems from the Tim Cole case out of Lubbock, where a Texas Tech student was… [read post]
17 Apr 2011, 7:58 am
There was lots of MSM coverage this week of a new report (pdf) from the Pew Center on the States ranking states by recidivism rates, with Texas earning perhaps undeserved praise for our remarkably low rate. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 6:49 am
The court noted that Texas was the first state in the nation to codify collaborative law. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 10:14 pm
How pathetic is the State Bar of Texas when it comes to protecting clients from rogue lawyers? [read post]
28 Dec 2008, 9:58 pm
The recidivism rate in the Texas pipeline is 50 percent.Unfortunately, the Sunset Advisory Commission failed to endorse shifting Texas youth prisons toward a "Missouri model" approach in its staff report, but if money is available, there's still a decent chance the 81st Texas Legislature may decide to go that route. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 6:32 am
In 1999, the Texas State Legislature enacted House Bill 610, commonly known as the Prompt Pay Act. [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 5:49 pm
The short answer is that a DWI is not a crime of moral turpitude in the state of Texas. [read post]
25 May 2023, 2:20 pm
” Both the Texas Legislature and Congress have passed serious criminal statutes outlawing human trafficking. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 10:17 am
Welcome to Texas government! [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 2:46 am
Dorinda Martin, president of the Texas Pharmacy Association, told reporters that the fee cuts threaten half of the state’s nearly 1,600 independent pharmacies. [read post]
7 Jul 2012, 7:32 am
The result has then that doctors can do almost anything in the state of Texas and not fear civil litigation. [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 8:34 am
After all the fawning over Timothy Cole's family and public declarations throughout the 81st Texas Legislature that the state would act to prevent false convictions, all the major innocence-related policy reforms proposed this year died in the session's waning hours with the exception of one bill requiring corroboration for jailhouse informants.Two other pieces of legislation for a brief moment had passed both chambers on Friday as amendments to HB 498, but… [read post]
