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27 Nov 2006, 10:23 am
Both wrote to support Judge McSpadden, the hard-line GOP jurist who wants to reduce drug sentences to clear big-city felony dockets (see this prior Grits post). [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 6:49 am
Oklahoma: “State Capitol lobbyist Bart McSpadden dead at 46” by Mark Friedel in the Claremore Daily Progress. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 6:28 am
Michael McSpadden, a Republican and longtime district court judge in Harris County, believes these penalties should be reduced. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 12:29 pm
In fact, Judge McSpadden, presiding judge of the 209th District Court of Harris County, has been promoting this change in the past and now has the support of his colleagues. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 2:19 am
"The ‘War on Drugs' isn't working, and we as judges realize it," McSpadden said. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 5:11 am
McSpadden yelled, when Mr. [read post]
24 Feb 2018, 5:02 am
There's really no reason now for the press or advocates to pretend otherwise.MORE: I should have called out Judge Michael McSpadden's comments from the story, too, and the more I look at them the more I think they deserve an addendum:State District Judge Michael McSpadden, a long-serving jurist in Harris County, said he also had a no-bond policy for magistrates for at least a dozen years because he didn't trust the lower-level jurists not to make errors. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 1:18 am
McSpadden thinks Harris County prosecutors are overcharging in these cases based on a technicality. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 9:17 am
"McSpadden said he, not Lykos, has led the charge to change how these trace cases are handled. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 7:45 am
Senfronia Thompson has filed a pair of bills recommended by a bipartisan majority of Harris County district judges, led by Judge Michael McSpadden, to reduce the penalty category for low-level drug possession. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 5:07 am
Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, on the hood of a car. [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 10:16 am
Includes Just Liberty's catchy jingle done by some of the same amazing musicians who performed our original podcast music.Check in on Texas pretrial reform litigationHarris County bail litigation: Interview with Susanne Pringle, executive director of the Texas Fair Defense Project, regarding the 5th Circuit's ruling in the Harris County bail litigation in which her group is one of the plaintiffs.Travis County plea mill challenged: Local attorneys file a demand letter challenging… [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 10:57 am
Another Harris County District Judge, Michael McSpadden, has called for reducing the penalty for these less than a gram possession offenses to a Class A misdemeanor, as has the Texas Public Policy Foundation. [read post]
26 May 2010, 5:44 am
State District Judge Michael McSpadden ruled Tuesday that Sonnier can travel freely and no longer must wear the monitor.For more background see the Justice Project's report on Sonnier's case.Via The Defense Rests. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 1:13 am
I don't know the answer to that complicated question.But in an era when Texas prisons are completely full and severely understaffed, a bigger overall problem for law abiding citizens of all races, as Judge McSpadden indicates, is that the excessive focus of state and local policing, judicial, and incarceration resources on drug crimes reduces resources available to incarcerate more serious offenders, including violent criminals. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 10:06 am
To my knowledge, out of 37 judges only Judges McSpadden and Ellis were in attendance. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 9:21 am
(See Harris County District Judge Mike McSpadden's letter to the Legislature urging this reform.)Those three changes would free up many thousands of police hours without costing the city a dime - certainly enough to allow HPD to adjust staffing levels to create a few dozen new detective slots. [read post]
4 Jul 2013, 6:32 am
Many of the judges, led by Judge Michael McSpadden, had asked the Legislature to help them by reducing less-than-a-gram drug offenses from a state jail felony to a Class A misdemeanor, getting them out of the district courts. [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 1:07 pm
" Today was the day.In a hearing this morning, state District Judge Michael McSpadden ordered Sonnier's release while the legal process of exonerating him moves forward. [read post]
8 Aug 2009, 11:07 am
One is awaiting trial for a different rape.In light of the new evidence, Judge Michael McSpadden of Harris County District Court on Friday ordered Mr. [read post]
