Friday, September 28, 2018

Whips, chains and Racehorse Haynes

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Hey, I've pitched this podcast before - and if you're not listening to it yet, you need to. The current episode of Criminal  is ab...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Execution Watch: 9/27/18

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Tomorrow night the State of Texas will kill for the second time in two days... DANIEL ACKER . Condemned following his conviction in the sla...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Execution Watch 9/26/18

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Tomorrow night the State of Texas will kill again... TROY CLARK . Sentenced to death after being convicted in the 1998 bathtub drowning of...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Hardly Solomonic

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In 2002, Jeffrey Havard was charged with the killing of a 6-month-old baby. The state alleged it was a clear case of shaken baby syndrome. M...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Let's have some smoke with that whitewash

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Oh, and you just thought the drama surrounding the killing of Botha Shem Jean by an off-duty Dallas police officer was over. How wrong you w...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Whitewashing a police shooting in Dallas

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Did y'all hear the one about the off-duty cop who walked into the wrong apartment and then accidentally shot the person who actually liv...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Just spitballing here

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Had a very interesting conversation with a relatively new prosecutor yesterday. We were discussing a case on the trial docket and he was sug...
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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 ...
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 ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Internal investigation? What internal investigation?

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In 2015, the family of Darryl Mount, Jr., filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Saratoga Springs, NY, then Public Safety commis...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Death, prayers and hypocrisy

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After every school shooting the Republicans, the wingnuts and gun freaks yell from the tops of the tallest buildings that now is not the tim...
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...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Goodbye, Aretha

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In memory of Aretha Franklin, here's a couple of tunes guaranteed to make you happy today. Enjoy.
Thursday, August 16, 2018

A senseless death in the Harris County Jail

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Debora Ann Lyons is the second inmate in the Harris County Jail to commit suicide in the last month . Ms. Lyons, who was taken into custody ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

A death in Nebraska and a governor out for bloodlust

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Just how badly does Pete Ricketts want to kill people? Enough that the Nebraska governor and his father spent $300,000 of their own money ...
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...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Sotomayor's scathing rebuke

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Yesterday afternoon the US Supreme Court decided that the 8th Amendment is merely a useless appendage and denied Billy Ray Irick's reque...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Torture in Tennessee

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Today the state of Tennessee is set to murder inmate Billy Ray Irick using a lethal injection cocktail using midazolam, vecuronium bromide ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Fighting for injustice

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Once again the Republican misdemeanor judges in Harris County have their panties in a wad . And, once again, it has to do with a federal jud...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

We're not gonna take it

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You might remember the name Darryl Fulton from an earlier blog post about his return to his grounds keeping job for the Chicago White Sox af...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

AG calls for a task force for a return to segregation

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For anyone who isn't a wingnut or a complete moron, Attorney General Jeff Session's announcement of a religious liberty task force s...
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, July 25, 2018

Blood spatter backlash

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Before we begin, let us never forget that the foremost ethical duty of a prosecutor is to see that justice is done (whatever that means), no...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Trying to throw a little shade around

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In 2014, attorneys for three death row inmates filed open records requests with the State of Texas seeking to find the source of the drugs u...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Fun with the lexicon

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President Donny has done a lot of highly questionable things but, at least according to the Constitution, treason is not one of them. Trea...