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10 Jul 2015, 1:20 pm by Patrick Burke
HOUSTON, TX — Harris County Officials have not yet released the name of the woman that was hospitalized after a major accident that happened in Houston, Texas on Thursday, July 9th, 2015. [read post]
10 Jul 2015, 6:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Another Chronicle article declared:The ruling was a staggering blow to Siegler, a long-time darling of Houston's legal scene and role model for Harris County's prosecutors who won dozens of convictions in her 21-year career. [read post]
6 Jul 2015, 8:15 am by Hannah Kiddoo
Kim will work in the Houston office of Lone Star Legal Aid, providing the Asian community in Harris and Fort Bend counties with legal services in guardianship and domestic violence cases. [read post]
6 Jul 2015, 3:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
:DNA could solve burglaries if crime labs were bigger, better, more trustworthyUsing DNA in nonviolent offenses would swamp crime labsTexas crime labs ill-equipped to handle coming volume of touch DNA cases Texas and the larger jurisdictions like Harris County and Houston have invested heavily in new and expanded crime labs in recent years, and it's still not been remotely enough to handle the incoming volume, as evidenced by Harris… [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 5:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's an odd development: The Harris County Jail is so full they're having to ship inmates to contract beds in other counties, while the Dallas County Jail population has plummeted.Dallas County Jail population drops to all-time low[Harris] County Jail shipping inmates to Beaumont lockup A DOJ statistician told the Morning News that "Texas’ entire jail population has been in decline since 2010," a… [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 11:19 am by Torrie Bethany
Before serving in his current position as judge of Travis County Court at Law No. 2, Shepperd was the director of civil litigation for the Travis County Attorney’s Office and assistant attorney general for the Law Enforcement Defense Division. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 5:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit by two former Houston crime lab employees (from when it was run by the police department) who alleged that "Harris County prosecutors retaliated against them after they exposed problems with the city's breath-alcohol testing vans, or 'BAT vans.'"In San Antonio, somehow I'd missed news this spring that hundreds of DWI blood tests were mishandled in a contracted lab and the new DA couldn't use… [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 4:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Meanwhile, in Houston earlier this month, the McArthur Foundation "awarded Harris County a $150,000 planning grant, one of 20 doled out across the country to gather data and encourage stakeholders to put together a proposal that is due in January. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:17 am by Lindsay Stafford Mader
An annual TCDLA tradition that started in 2010 at the Harris County Courthouse, this year’s event on Thursday, July 2, is expected to take place at more than 100 courthouses. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 4:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
  This really came to light in the Alfred Brown case out of Harris County where a grand jury was empaneled via the commissioner system. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 3:21 pm by Andrew Babb
Harris County, TX — On Thursday of this week, June 25, there was a multi-car wreck along Rankin Road in Harris County that left several injured. [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 12:13 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Almost 60% of the new drug-crime exonerees since 2012 are defendants who pled guilty in a single jurisdiction, Harris County, Texas (Houston), and were cleared when crime lab tests found no illegal drugs in the materials seized from them. [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 10:31 am by Anna Stancu
  Those clauses stated that (1) the sole venue for disputes arising out of Verdugo’s employment would be Harris County, Texas; and (2) the Texas court would apply Texas law to the dispute. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 10:00 am
The Texas Supreme Court issued two significant rulings on June 12, 2015. [read post]
13 Jun 2015, 9:56 am by Daily Record Staff
Civil procedure — Personal jurisdiction — Default judgment Appellants sought enrollment of a default judgment from Harris County, Texas in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County. [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 3:08 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The issues surrounding bail, pretrial detention, and underutilized pretrial services programs are long-time fodder for this blog, dating at least to this series focused on Harris County in 2005. [read post]
10 Jun 2015, 11:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
According to the Houston Chronicle:Texas' highest criminal court on Wednesday threw out the 2005 conviction and death sentence of Alfred Dewayne Brown after finding that the Harris County District Attorney's Office withheld material evidence favorable to Brown's case.In a brief order, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals sent the case back to the lower court for a new trial. [read post]
10 Jun 2015, 10:41 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
”  The Agreement provided that any dispute regarding Verdugo’s employment had to be brought in Harris County, Texas and that the laws of Texas would govern the dispute. [read post]