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22 May 2013, 9:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
IANAL, but my personal view was that SB 187 did not provide enough discretion on sentencing to comply with the Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 4:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Whitmire called keeping the Central Unit open "a concession from me to Ogden. [read post]
18 May 2011, 6:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“I don’t think we’ll need the additional beds, but it’s a precaution,” said Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, D-Houston.Both Madden and Whitmire said funding for Texas’ prison treatment and rehabilitation programs have been funded at acceptable levels, meaning that additional convicts would be successfully diverted from state lockups onto parole and into community-based rehab programs that are much less… [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 9:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire, D-Houston, said [Chairman Tommy] Williams had presented an opportunity for the court to propose “proactive programs” on mental health. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 12:47 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire, D-Houston, chair of the Texas Senate's criminal justice committee. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 4:04 pm by David Lat
Of the 1,400 people who have voted thus far in our reader poll, only 34 percent would vote “guilty” if they were jurors in the case of State v. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 4:53 am
John Whitmire, D-Houston, who chairs the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. [read post]
21 Apr 2013, 11:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This would create in state habeas law a remedy for lawyers' failure to advised their clients of collateral consequences, following a recent SCOTUS precedent on-point in Padilla v. [read post]
13 Apr 2013, 10:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The only reason to oppose this bill is as a back-door means of criminalizing youthful gay relations, since after Lawrence v. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 10:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Their only power -- to seek state punishment for rule violators -- is a regressive function. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 8:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Anyway, here are what I consider Perry's worst criminal-justice related vetoes:Maximizing police arrest powersPhoto via The EconomistSB 730 (2001): After the US Supreme Court ruled in Atwater v. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 10:14 am by Melody McDonald Lanier
Statistics show the imposition of the death penalty has sharply declined in the Lone Star state over the past two decades. [read post]