Showing posts with label Harris County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harris County. 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...
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, ...
Monday, November 5, 2018

To what depths will they plunge?

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There were a number of things I was thinking of writing about today, but when I saw this flyer in my mailbox there was no way I couldn't...
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...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Washington Supreme Court strikes down the death penalty

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Allen Eugene Gregory was not a very good person. In 1996 he robbed, raped and murdered a woman. Two years later he was investigated for anot...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

When all else fails, purge the voter rolls

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One thing about the Trump era is that Republicans don't have to even pretend they aren't racial motives behind more restrictive voti...
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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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Constructing the plea mill

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Documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle cast new light on the ways Harris County judges systematically refused to grant personal bonds t...
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...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Robb Fickman is mad as hell...

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For those of you who aren't aware, the Harris County Criminal Courthouse suffered severe damage as a result of Hurricane Harvey. The bu...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

Doing the right thing

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Well here's an interesting twist in Harris County's fight against bail reform - Michael Fields, the presiding judge in County Crimi...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Is Harris County deliberately undermining a federal court order?

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This past June an order from US District Judge Lee Rosenthal went into effect that drastically altered the way pretrial bonds are handled in...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Stepping in it

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Oh what a mess Harris County DA Devon Anderson has found herself in. As has been reported in local media outlets, over the last nine years s...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Window dressing

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Back in April of this year Harris County received a $2 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to reform its criminal (in)justice syste...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

Happy Fourth (or not)

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Yesterday the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association carried on a tradition born four years ago with the annual reading of the Declar...
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