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25 Sep 2010, 4:12 am
Discovery, Brady Rules in Need of Reformation to Prevent Wrongful Convictions By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Last month the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel (“Panel”), which was created by the Texas Legislature in its 2009 session to develop recommendations for the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense to help prevent wrongful convictions, issued its “report” calling for changes in the state’s… [read post]
19 Sep 2023, 11:49 am
The Texas State Board of Education and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission appealed the order to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals the same day. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 7:00 am
Jefferson presented his State of the Judiciary speech before the 83rd Texas Legislature in Austin. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 8:16 am
The last day for filing most new bills in the Texas Legislature is March 9th, slightly more than two weeks from now. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 8:00 am
In 2011, the Texas Legislature adopted a new congressional districting plan and new district team maps for the two houses of the State Legislature to account for population growth shown in the 2010 census. [read post]
3 Dec 2010, 11:15 am
It seems, the drinking mentality in Texas is ingrained into the state. [read post]
23 May 2017, 2:57 pm
Today the Texas Legislature has passed HB 60, making it illegal to text and drive in Texas. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 11:55 am
The simplest plan was to let Texas do what it wants — use the redistricting maps its state legislature drew earlier this year, unchanged. [read post]
28 Apr 2017, 1:43 pm
We are one-third of the way through 2017, and dozens of state legislatures across the country are active, including on animal protection policy issues. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 6:37 am
Not to be outdone, however, the Texas State Legislature... [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 9:02 pm
The state has contended that the San Antonio court had no authority to draw up its own plans without trying to salvage as much as it could of the plans drawn by the Texas legislature. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 8:47 am
The bills were opposed by the National Association of Royalty Owners – Texas, Texas Land and Mineral Owners Association, the Texas Cattle Raisers Association, and the Texas Forestry Association. [read post]
21 May 2009, 5:00 am
The Texas legislature is considering two laws that would significantly alter the state’s rules of the road. [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 1:07 pm
Early this week, the Supreme Court – over the dissent of the court’s four more liberal justices – granted Texas’ request to put on hold two lower-court orders that had invalidated two of the state’s federal congressional districts and the state’s maps for the lower house of the Texas legislature. [read post]
13 Sep 2017, 3:46 am
A deeply-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday night stepped back into the long-running legal battle over whether the Texas legislature has unconstitutionally discriminated against minority voters in drawing new congressional and state legislative election districts. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 8:51 am
Texas defends these laws, which would force more than 75% of the state’s abortion clinics to close, insisting that the Supreme Court must defer to the legislature’s view of what is necessary to protect women’s health. [read post]
21 Dec 2017, 5:24 pm
The post Texas Governor Sends in the Texas Rangers into State Juvenile Facilities appeared first on . [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 1:18 pm
Last week, Abbott vetoed a portion of the state budget that funds the Texas Legislature. [read post]
15 Feb 2021, 9:14 am
Citizens are divided over how gun control should be handled in the state, with 40-50 percent of University of Texas poll participants stating that they want stricter gun control throughout the state. [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 11:38 am
The number of juveniles sent to youth prisons from Texas' largest counties dramatically declined after 2007 - when the Legislature implemented reforms at the Texas Youth Commission in the wake of a sex abuse scandal - demonstrating the remarkable extent to which state and local decisionmaking drives incarceration policy as much or more than crime rates. [read post]
