Showing posts with label due process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label due process. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

The assault on due process

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There is an awful lot not to like about Education Secretary Betty DeVos. She wants to get rid of public education. She caters to the for-pro...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Marsy's Law will undermine due process

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At some point I keep hoping folks will realize that the purpose of the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments is to protect individuals accused of brea...
Friday, September 7, 2018

Judge finds that City destroyed evidence in jail litigation

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Quick. What is the worst thing you can do when you are the defendant in a multi-million dollar lawsuit alleging you held people in jail for ...
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, June 20, 2018

Protecting the kids, Georgia style

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This past week the Georgia Supreme Court did itself proud as it declared that being placed on a child abuse registry without notice isn'...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Shocking, simply shocking

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Judge George Gallagher in Fort Worth, Texas must have an affinity for the Middle Ages. Either that or the Spanish Inquisition. You see, Ju...
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...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Losing leverage

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The purpose of bail is to ensure that the accused appears in court to answer the charge against him and to ensure the safety of the communit...
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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, 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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Friday, June 10, 2016

A common sense decision

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Terrence Williams was convicted of murder for killing Amos Norwood in 1984. Mr. Williams said he did it because Mr. Norwood had abused him w...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

One way to reduce indigent defense bill

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So you think it's hard to get a court-appointed attorney in Harris County. There are judges who will tell defendants who have been able ...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

A science experiment gone wrong

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“In Oklahoma’s haste to conduct a science experiment on two men behind a veil of secrecy, our state has disgraced itself before the nation ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Death three ways

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Yesterday was supposed to be a double-header day in Oklahoma. Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner were both scheduled to be murdered by the s...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Trusting blindly and swallowing whole

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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Texas ban on same-sex marriage struck down

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And now Texas is the latest to fall . On Wednesday, US District Judge Orlando Garcia, issued a ruling declaring Texas' ban on gay marri...
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Monday, January 6, 2014

Release the hounds

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Too often objections to the death penalty are based on the method by which the state murders the inmate. That is the primary argument agains...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Forty years of solitude in Angola

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For 40 years, Herman Wallace sat in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. He spent those years in so...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Why not just reduce the number of federal prosecutions?

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Under the sequester, federal agencies were required to cut their budgets across the board. Of course when business travelers felt the inconv...
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