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25 Sep 2009, 8:21 am
Texas has had 41 DNA exonerations thus far, Harris County accounting for seven. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 3:31 pm
All the information compiled in this article was obtained through Public Information Act (PIA) requests and other publicly available data from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, Tarrant County Commissioners Court, the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, and the Office of Court Administration. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 8:40 am
But TIDC won't renew their indigent defense grant until that judge changes his practices.Jim Allison, General Counsel, County Judges and Commissioners Association, fears we're headed for a "constitutional breakdown" because of counties differing capacities for providing indigent defense. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 1:41 pm
Presentations by Andrea Marsh, Executive Director of the Texas Fair Defense Project; Judge Dib Waldrip, 433rd District Court, Comal County; Jim Allison, General Counsel, County Judges and Commissioners Association. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 5:40 am
"It's been a huge disappointment," said Jones County Judge Dale Spurgin, who has lobbied state officials for two years without success for help to avoid an approaching default on the bonds that were issued to build the lockup. [read post]
16 Nov 2018, 2:40 pm
Guest speakers at the NLADA conference included keynote Rodney Ellis, former Texas senator and current Harris County commissioner. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 8:26 am
" Since neither judges nor prosecutors must raise anyone's taxes to adopt that stance, it's an easy position to take that passes off the difficult decisions about jail overcrowding to commissioners courts.It's worth noting that the National Association of Counties recently put out a report titled Jail Population Management: Elected County Officials' Guide to Pretrial Services (pdf). [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 8:14 am
“As some of the dissenting judges pointed out, the three-judge panel’s decision is in conflict with both the U.S. [read post]
2 Jul 2019, 7:43 am
Texas Young Lawyers Association President Victor A. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 8:12 am
In 1984, after a “minority opportunity district” was created in Dallas County, Price was elected as the first African American County Commissioner in the history of the County. [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 6:54 am
Greg Abbott has named a former state appeals court judge as Texas’ new insurance commissioner — a powerful post that will have a higher-than-usual profile following Harvey’s destruction. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 10:34 am
And one that could be written, I bet, for a lot of high schools, including my own.'So many people sitting in jail'In Waco, apparently oblivious to the possibility of reducing pretrial detention through bail reform, McLennan County officials will pay for an extra, associate judge to process cases faster. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 2:13 pm
In a recent column, former NY police commissioner and Right-on-Crime signatory Bernard Kerik used the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas as an example of how unions' leadership doesn't necessarily represent the views of its members. [read post]
28 Dec 2019, 10:14 am
The problem arises when:the county claims they have released from custody because a judge has dismissed the charges. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 5:11 am
Unable to access clients’ files, TRLA attorneys watched their cases begin to clog the courts’ dockets as local judges appointed fewer cases to them.County commissioners eventually disregarded about $68,000 in state funds that would have helped to keep the program running, said Bryan Wilson, grants administrator for the task force.No county officials — the county judge, district attorney, assistant county attorney or… [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 3:57 am
Rogers and Deputy Chief Judge Susan M. [read post]
2 Nov 2015, 11:04 am
Interestingly, in a Texas District and County Attorneys Association article about grand juries, the chief of the grand jury division of the Harris County DA office admits that prosecutors often use the grand jury to wash out unwanted cases. [read post]
2 Nov 2015, 11:04 am
Interestingly, in a Texas District and County Attorneys Association article about grand juries, the chief of the grand jury division of the Harris County DA office admits that prosecutors often use the grand jury to wash out unwanted cases. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 6:45 am
The board also is tasked with suggesting any policy changes to [Chief Art] Acevedo.In the past, a Taser deployment was reviewed only by an officer’s supervisors, who were immediately called to the scene where a Taser was used.Debating Deportation: Most jails see reduced costs from immigration detaineesImmigration detainers for inmates held in Texas county jails under the federal "Secure Communities" program have decreased slightly, reported the Texas Tribune,… [read post]
6 Jul 2014, 5:10 am
Via YourHouston News, Texas parole commissioner Lynn Ruzicka said new programming has facilitated higher parole rates for eligible inmates and lower revocation rates for parolees. [read post]
