Showing posts with label DIVERT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIVERT. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2013

Vacuum at the top

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Earlier this month, after less than a year in office, Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson died from cancer. He had been out of the...
Friday, January 4, 2013

RIP, DIVERT

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On August 1, 2009, then-Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos rolled out her new DWI program - DIVERT. The purpose of DIVERT was to conv...
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Friday, March 9, 2012

It's still illegal

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Ol' Big Jolly is happy as a clam to report that Pat Lyko's DIVERT program is doing precisely what it set out to do - reducing the n...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The cost of thinking outside the box

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I'm no fan of Pat Lykos. Her job is to infringe upon the rights of the citizenry as zealously as the courts will allow. She is part of...
Monday, October 31, 2011

You can call it what you will, but it's still illegal

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You may remember Ruben Trejo , he's the former HPD sergeant who collided with a school bus on his way to work -- with an alcohol concent...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Diverting from the law

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According to the Houston Chronicle, the Harris County DA's DIVERT program is the greatest thing since sliced bread when it comes to dea...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Diverted from justice

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While I was sitting in a courtroom at the Harris County Criminal (In)justice Center the other morning I couldn't help but listen in on t...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The lone holdout

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There are 15 county criminal courts in Harris County and in 14 of them a motorist accused of driving while intoxicated who has an otherwise ...
Friday, July 9, 2010

A rose by any other name (is just as thorny)

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Oh what tangled webs we weave... Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos came out with the DIVERT program for motorists accused of DWI ...

Sometimes the cure can be worse than the ailment

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The powers of the government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a se...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

When office policy clashes with the law

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According to the Texas Penal Code, the punishment range for a first-time DWI conviction is not less than 72 hours and not more than 180 days...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

DIVERT = deferred adjudication

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I overheard a little pow-wow with the prosecutor, defendant and defense counsel on a DWI case in Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 3 o...
Monday, September 14, 2009

New DWI program sounds more and more like deferred adjudication

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So you still think Harris County's new DIVERT program for first-time DWI defendants is really a pretrial diversion and not deferred adju...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Cell phone users pose more danger than drunk drivers

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A study from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis claims that 6% of all motor vehicle accidents in the United States - some 636,000 a year -...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Harris County DA to speak in Spring Branch

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The Houston Police Department Northwest Division's Positive Interaction Program (PIP) meeting will be held at the Long Point Baptist Chu...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Other voices on Harris County's new DWI policy

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Here is some additional reading for y'all regarding the Harris County DA's new DIVERT program... Mark Bennett, in his blog Defending...
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More questions and concerns about the DIVERT program

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While I support the concept of pretrial diversion in DWI cases - the DIVERT plan unveiled by the Harris County District Attorney's Offic...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Harris County defense bar's reaction to the new DWI diversion program

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THE HARRIS COUNTY CRIMINAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION’S STATEMENT REGARDING THE NEW DWI DIVERSION PROGRAM The Harris County Criminal Lawyers Associ...

Harris County rolls out new coercive DWI program

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The Harris County District Attorney's Office informed members of the defense bar of the DA's new coercive DWI pretrial diversion pol...
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