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19 Jan 2020, 1:51 pm
Is it just me, or is Travis County DA Margaret Moore behaving like someone who really doesn't want votes in a Democratic primary? [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 2:02 pm
Of the largest counties, Harris and Bexar have no worries, but Dallas, Travis, Tarrant, El Paso, and many other counties all have significant remedial work to do to avoid losing grant funds. [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 8:43 am
Letting folks sit around in jail because they're too poor to pay just isn't good enough, anymore. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 8:30 am
The exact same story could have been written about Margaret Moore, and Travis County DAs going back to Ronnie Earle (let's please all just agree to forget the ignominious Lehmberg era, though of course, that was also a legacy of the Ronnie Earle era).Yes, Harris, Dallas, Bexar, etc., utilize prison much more than Travis County, but it has ever been thus. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 12:45 pm
The ouster of Kim Ogg in Houston and the re-election of José Garza in Austin -- coupled with the ouster of 3 members of the Government Always Wins faction on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals -- signal a sea change in criminal-justice reform politics in Texas compared to a decade ago.Increasingly, Democrats in Texas' largest counties favor reform and in both Harris and Travis made decisive choices for progressive candidates. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 3:47 pm
On a related note, I wonder: Do mainstream media folk understand that, when they endorse someone in a Republican primary, they're actually harming that person's chances because conservatives distrust the media so thoroughly? [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am
As in the rest of the country, incarceration rates per 10,000 residents for the largest Texas cities were on the low side: Travis 21.1, Bexar 29.6, Harris 30.9, Dallas 32.3, Tarrant 31.2, El Paso 14.2.By contrast, the highest incarceration rate was Kenedy County in South Texas, with 225 residents per 10,000 incarcerated. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 12:30 pm
Sheriffs who want to allow immigration officials to detain more immigrants in local Texas jails are running up against a backlash from county commissioners who don't want to foot the bill for federal detainees.I'd identified that problem earlier when Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas proposed such a change as part of his primary re-election campaign. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 3:14 pm
Grits has not followed the details of this case closely, but I can speak generally from past experience to say, while I like Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg well enough on many issues, she's never been aggressive when it comes to prosecuting police officers who are unduly violent or abuse their position, dating back to her position as Ronnie Earle's first assistant. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 2:25 am
So if you're not up on television when early voting starts, you've missed getting your message to what's become a significant chunk of the electorate who'll vote by the end of the week.In the Travis County DA's race, so far I've only seen Rosemary Lehmberg on television with what I thought was an effective ad emphasizing her experience and the incumbent's endorsement. [read post]
29 Apr 2018, 7:03 pm
So Mandy, what's your takeaway from this data, and how should Travis County respond? [read post]
6 May 2020, 2:38 pm
Harris County, which leads the state in inmates diagnosed with COVID at 449, just reported its first inmate death from the virus.Overdoses spike nationallyGrits had mentioned earlier Travis and Williamson Counties had seen a spike in opiod overdoses. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 3:17 am
Counties won't reach 100%, especially for the last year or so of the range, but they're not being asked to, and 90% is an eminently reasonable compromise. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 10:42 am
Obviously, the Harris and Travis DA races are big: An incumbent win in the latter would be a sanguine result, while an incumbent loss in the former would be an earth-rumbling victory. [read post]
24 Dec 2014, 7:45 am
Travis County officials are grumbling at the costs of implementing the Michael Morton Act. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 7:03 pm
” That trial took place in Travis County in Judge Charlie Baird’s court wherein it was found that the deceased was, in fact, innocent and thereafter execut [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 5:30 pm
If you’re struggling, and you need a little help—and I know this is prevalent in the law—just know that it’s there if you ask for it. [read post]
30 Aug 2021, 7:03 am
No word on whether that hot mess will be re-tried. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 7:00 am
As of today, only one graduate has been re-arrested. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:34 am
But you'd need data broken out in more detail to figure out pay scales under the suggested guidelines.There's lots of detail in this 114-page report (pdf) and Grits may come back to it later, but I wanted to at least get the link out there for folks who're interested.MORE: From the Texas Fair Defense Project, which noted that "According to data collected by TIDC for 2014, appointed attorneys or public defenders in all five of Texas’s most populous counties… [read post]
