Showing posts with label pretrial diversion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pretrial diversion. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2013

Vacuum at the top

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Earlier this month, after less than a year in office, Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson died from cancer. He had been out of the...
Friday, January 4, 2013

RIP, DIVERT

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On August 1, 2009, then-Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos rolled out her new DWI program - DIVERT. The purpose of DIVERT was to conv...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

You can call it what you will, but it's still illegal

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You may remember Ruben Trejo , he's the former HPD sergeant who collided with a school bus on his way to work -- with an alcohol concent...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Diverting from the law

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According to the Houston Chronicle, the Harris County DA's DIVERT program is the greatest thing since sliced bread when it comes to dea...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Diverted from justice

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While I was sitting in a courtroom at the Harris County Criminal (In)justice Center the other morning I couldn't help but listen in on t...
Monday, May 2, 2011

One lump or two?

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Oh, the hypocrisy of those limited government folks never ceases to amaze. As Grits for Breakfast  reports, Teabaggers in Smith County (that...
Friday, July 9, 2010

A rose by any other name (is just as thorny)

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Oh what tangled webs we weave... Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos came out with the DIVERT program for motorists accused of DWI ...

Sometimes the cure can be worse than the ailment

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The powers of the government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a se...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Law and order: Rockport

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I was down in scenic Rockport yesterday handling an appeal of a case involving the holder of a CDL. Due to the infinite wisdom of our state...
Monday, November 23, 2009

DIVERT = deferred adjudication

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I overheard a little pow-wow with the prosecutor, defendant and defense counsel on a DWI case in Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 3 o...
Monday, September 14, 2009

New DWI program sounds more and more like deferred adjudication

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So you still think Harris County's new DIVERT program for first-time DWI defendants is really a pretrial diversion and not deferred adju...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Cell phone users pose more danger than drunk drivers

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A study from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis claims that 6% of all motor vehicle accidents in the United States - some 636,000 a year -...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Other voices on Harris County's new DWI policy

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Here is some additional reading for y'all regarding the Harris County DA's new DIVERT program... Mark Bennett, in his blog Defending...
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More questions and concerns about the DIVERT program

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While I support the concept of pretrial diversion in DWI cases - the DIVERT plan unveiled by the Harris County District Attorney's Offic...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Harris County defense bar's reaction to the new DWI diversion program

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THE HARRIS COUNTY CRIMINAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION’S STATEMENT REGARDING THE NEW DWI DIVERSION PROGRAM The Harris County Criminal Lawyers Associ...

Harris County rolls out new coercive DWI program

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The Harris County District Attorney's Office informed members of the defense bar of the DA's new coercive DWI pretrial diversion pol...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Harris County pretrial diversion plan remains clouded in secrecy

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Last week the head honchos over at the Harris County District Attorney's Office had a sit-down with the judges in the misdemeanor courts...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Setting the bar high

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Yesterday, former U.S. Representative, and current Houston criminal defense attorney, Craig Washington took the state up on an offer of pret...
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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Post-script to Harris County's new DWI policy

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After speaking with a source in the Harris County DA's office about the new DWI policy I was left wondering what would happen to those ...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

New DWI policy leaves a lot to be desired

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If rumors are to be believed, the new Harris County DWI policy going into effect on August 1, 2009, leaves a lot to be desired. Apparently a...
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