Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Blaming the victim, Texas style

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This is a video that Texas now requires all high school students to view. Its purpose is to "teach" students how to interact wit...
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...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Sid Miller steps right in it (and doesn't even know it)

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Sid Miller is the Texas Agriculture Commissioner. The job appears to be primarily about promoting Texas agricultural products as well as s...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Money to burn

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In its never-ending quest to make prisons as inhospitable as it can (just because it can), the State of Texas spent $7 million fighting a ...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Two for Texas

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Hey, make no mistake about it, I love living in the Lone Star State. I've lived here all my life and have no intentions of going anyplac...
Friday, August 10, 2012

The government knows best

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The State of Texas has decided it is qualified to tell doctors how to run their practices and what to tell their patients. According to a p...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Life on death row

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Just what does it mean to be locked up in Texas' death row in Livingston, Texas? Last week the BBC ran an interview with convicted death...
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Friday, June 8, 2012

A visit to Monument Hill

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Back in the winter of 1842 an expedition party made up of Texas soldiers crossed the Nueces River into what was then Mexico. Despite orders...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Should DWI be a capital crime?

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Douglas Berman over at Sentencing Law and Policy  seemed quite upset that motorists in Texas continued to get behind the wheel of a car afte...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Looking at the death penalty county-by-county

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Robert J. Smith , a visiting professor at the DePaul University College of Law has taken the analysis of death sentences across the country ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

A view of the wildfires from outer space

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This is a view of the wildfires burning in Texas from the space station. If you read Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, you...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

New website to check driver license status

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If you need to check the driver's license status of yourself or a client, here's a new website from the State of Texas that will all...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

A look lack at the 82nd Texas Legislature

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Here's an update on matters affecting lawyers and the criminal (in)justice system that were introduced into the recently completed regul...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

When the right hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

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Scott Henson over at Grits for Breakfast  points out that the Teabaggers aren't necessarily playing along with the "big government...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Will the bad ideas ever cease?

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Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc . must be paying their lobbyists in Austin a pretty penny as legislation is pending before the Senate Crimin...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Lone Star State turns 175

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In a sleepy little town on the banks of the Brazos River, while Santa Ana's forces laid siege to the Alamo, 59 men met and declared Texa...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Remembering the Alamo

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175 years ago today began the 13 days of glory that defined the Republic of Texas. On February 23, 1836, General Santa Ana's forces arr...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Happy birthday, Lone Star State

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On March 2, 1836 , 59 men gathered in a house along the Brazos River in Washington, Texas, and signed their names to the Texas Declaration o...
Friday, February 26, 2010

The people's building is no longer open to the people

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The authority a democratic government exercises is granted to it by the people it governs. You remember what Abraham Lincoln said at Gettysb...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Consular rights and the Medellin case

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Mexican national, Jose Medellin, awaits execution in Texas while the U.S. Supreme Court decides the merits of his latest request for a stay...