Showing posts with label drug possession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drug possession. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The assembly line keeps on moving

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I caught an interesting piece on All Things Considered  this afternoon about sentencing reform . Over the last couple of decades tough-on-cr...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

The times they are a-changing

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I could start off with a rant about why taxpayers in Texas are being asked to pay for a security detail for Gov. Rick Perry while he rubs sh...
Friday, October 11, 2013

The unintended consequences of a campaign pledge

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Back when the late Mike Anderson was running for DA against incumbent Pat Lykos he attacked her over and over again for her decision not to ...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Like we don't have enough laws on the books

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The other day my eye was caught by a Grits for Breakfast  post about the number of bills proposed this legislative session that would either...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

So what's Plan B?

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Former Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos angered many in the criminal (in)justice establishment (including my colleague Murray Newma...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

One night in Hudspeth County

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Rusty Fleming wants all you budding country and rock stars to know that they don't much care for drugs down in the Valley in Hudspeth Co...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Just another day at the office for Michael Reichert

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I haven't yet decided whether to laugh at this video or to throw sharp objects at my monitor. Radley Balko posted this video on his blog...
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...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Creative thinking in public education?

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Possession means actual care, custody, control of management.  -- Texas Controlled Substances Act Sec. 481.002(38) Possession is diffe...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Stuffed to the gills

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Forget about all that 6th Amendment nonsense about the right to counsel, Harris County has decided that's not nearly so important as cra...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Slow and steady wins the race

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I recently handled a dope case in which the police claimed to have found one rock of cocaine in his vehicle. The officer, after cuffing my c...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

When does a traffic stop become unreasonable?

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At 1:40 a.m. on July 17, 2009, police in Southaven, Mississippi stopped a white Pontiac Grand Prix for driving with no license plate tag. Af...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

A flaw in logic

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Just one more thought on Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos' apparent backtracking on the office's new drug policy... If the ...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

DA backtracks on new drug policy

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One day after announcing a policy change in the prosecution of some drug offenses, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos seems to be bac...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Harris County to institute "catch and release" policy

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The Harris County District Attorney's Office announced a change in its policy regarding arrests for trace amounts of drugs , particularl...
Monday, November 9, 2009

You might hold off on going through the car wash

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I was reading an offense report for a case down in South Texas the other day in which an ordinary traffic stop turned into an arrest for pos...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Turning a traffic stop into something more

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I came across an interesting article written by Joe Buckley, president of John E. Reid and Associates , in The Police News this morning as I...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Mexico to decriminalize minor drug possession

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The Mexican legistlature has voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs ranging from marijuana to heroin to methamphet...
Friday, May 1, 2009

The law of unintended consequences

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Is it possible that the latest pandemic causing otherwise sane people to spin off the deep end in panic is the unintended consequence of the...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

A voice of reason

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Finally, a voice of reason in the neverending war against drugs.   Judge Michael McSpadden, who presides over the 209th Judicial District Co...