Showing posts with label Harris County courts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harris County courts. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Throwing in the towel (finally)

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Now it's over. Yesterday the lawsuit filed by the former Republican misdemeanor judges was dismissed on a motion filed by the 15 inc...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Fine! I'm going to take my ball and go home!

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Two juvenile judges in Harris County accounted for one out of every five commitments in the state.   Glenn Devlin and John Phillips, both of...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

The aftermath

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The blue wave hit Harris County (and even our suburban neighbors to the southwest) yesterday. The Democrats swept every county-wide seat, ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

A short postscript...

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After posting yesterday's entry I went out to the mailbox and found yet another stack of mailers from the Republican party for the judic...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Enough of the hand-wringing

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Oh it's that time of the year. The time for those who see a sweep of local elections to do their hand-wringing about the number of good ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Is this what it means to inhale?

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The mailers from the Republican Party are coming hot and heavy as we approach Election Day. The latest broadside warns of chaos in the court...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Blowing smoke at the courthouse

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Oh, campaign season is all around us. The other day I got a mailer from the Republican Party of Texas promoting Republican judges. I suppose...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

A senseless death in the Harris County Jail

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Debora Ann Lyons is the second inmate in the Harris County Jail to commit suicide in the last month . Ms. Lyons, who was taken into custody ...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Former judge sanctioned for jailing a rape victim

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On December 8, 2014, Jenny Doe (her real name may be found in court records but I choose not to publish it), was called to testify in the ra...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Fighting for injustice

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Once again the Republican misdemeanor judges in Harris County have their panties in a wad . And, once again, it has to do with a federal jud...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Houston's white elephant

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One of the casualties of Hurricane Harvey was the Harris County Criminal Justice Center - a 20-story white elephant that has had a laundry l...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Harris County Chief Public Defender under fire

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Alex Brunin is the Chief Public Defender for Harris County. His clientele consists of those who haven't the money to hire an attorney to...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Captains (not so) courageous

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Let me just say it now, politicians, by and large, are not the most courageous folks out there. In fact they are pretty downright cowardly...
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Friday, February 16, 2018

It's a swing and a miss

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And it's strike two against Harris County in their efforts to maintain an unconstitutional and discriminatory bail policy in place. L...
Monday, June 30, 2014

First the plea, then the admonishments

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On Friday members of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers' Association stood outside Judge Michael Fields' courtroom handing out 3x5 c...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Traffic court and the rules of grammar

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I was a bit curious tonight about a couple of things so I picked up my daughter's school dictionary. The Scott, Foresman Advanced Dict...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Some more burnt ends

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Some things you just can't make up. You might try to put an ironic twist on something but it never comes together in a coherent way. Or ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

"Justice" of the peace?

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Oh, where to begin? The other morning I had a client in traffic court out in West Houston (Precinct 5, Place 2 for those keeping score). H...
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Monday, March 3, 2014

Let's play cowboys and vampires

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March is a busy time in the Houston area. First there's the Livestock Show and Rodeo that opened this past weekend with the World Champi...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

It ain't gonna fix itself

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Doesn't there come a time in nearly every project where you stop and wonder if everything is working like it should? And if somet...
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