Thursday, November 20, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: More criminal justice bills pre-filed at the Texas...
Grits for Breakfast: More criminal justice bills pre-filed at the Texas...: Here are a few more bills (see here , here , here and here for earlier installments) from the first week of pre-filing at the Texas Legisl...
Grits for Breakfast: More criminal justice bills pre-filed at the Texas...
Grits for Breakfast: More criminal justice bills pre-filed at the Texas...: Here are a few more bills (see here , here , here and here for earlier installments) from the first week of pre-filing at the Texas Legisl...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Inmate families rally for criminal justice reform
Grits for Breakfast: Inmate families rally for criminal justice reform: The Texas Inmate Families Association, Texas CURE, and Texas Voices are holding a rally at the state capitol on Friday afternoon . A friend ...
Monday, October 27, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Exoneree awarded $2.3 million jury verdict over in...
Grits for Breakfast: Exoneree awarded $2.3 million jury verdict over in...: Texas Lawyer brings word (Oct. 23) of the latest example of innocence compensation, this time through a federal courtroom instead of the st...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: 'Economist': Judges must seize back power from pro...
Grits for Breakfast: 'Economist': Judges must seize back power from pro...: The Economist last week (Oct. 4) published a pair of pieces lamenting the super-sizing of prosecutorial power and calling for the state to h...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Habern: On plea bargains, parole, and the conseque...
Grits for Breakfast: Habern: On plea bargains, parole, and the conseque...: Long-time Texas parole attorney Bill Habern, whose comments on the Pamela Freeman case Grits appended to this post , followed up with an ema...
Grits for Breakfast: Disputed confession corroborated by jailhouse snit...
Grits for Breakfast: Disputed confession corroborated by jailhouse snit...: Grits apparently forgot to post anything about this story when it came out last month, so let's correct the oversight. Two Dallas men,...
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Parole commissioner indictment points to swamped s...
Grits for Breakfast: Parole commissioner indictment points to swamped s...: More detail has emerged regarding the indictment of parole commissioner Pamela Freeman reported by Grits yesterday. A story in the Houston C...
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Friday, October 3, 2014
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Friday, September 26, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Well water contaminated with arsenic at TDCJ's Wal...
Grits for Breakfast: Well water contaminated with arsenic at TDCJ's Wal...: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is seeking a contract to purchase water from the city of Navasota because of "slightly higher ...
Monday, September 22, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Tim Cole statue unveiled in Lubbock, and other sto...
Grits for Breakfast: Tim Cole statue unveiled in Lubbock, and other sto...: Here are a few items from the last week that may interest Grits readers but which lost out in the competition for time with my paid work: ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Ugly allegations of abuse, inmate hazing at Bartle...
Grits for Breakfast: Ugly allegations of abuse, inmate hazing at Bartle...: Holy God! I hardly know what to make of this! From the San Antonio Express-News (" Lawsuit: Texas prison okays odd sex assault ," ...
Grits for Breakfast: Corrections Committee Chair Tan Parker questions j...
Grits for Breakfast: Corrections Committee Chair Tan Parker questions j...: Here's an incredibly positive sign for drug sentencing reform from Texas House Corrections Committee Chairman Tan Parker, as reported by...
Grits for Breakfast: Corrections Committee Chair Tan Parker questions j...
Grits for Breakfast: Corrections Committee Chair Tan Parker questions j...: Here's an incredibly positive sign for drug sentencing reform from Texas House Corrections Committee Chairman Tan Parker, as reported by...
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's $6.8 billion budget request slants too much...
Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ's $6.8 billion budget request slants too much...: Here's a one-page summary (pdf) of Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR) for FY 2016-17....
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Litigation heating up over summertime prison condi...
Grits for Breakfast: Litigation heating up over summertime prison condi...: At Texas Monthly's website, Annie Melton reflects on the looming question: " Will a ruling on extreme conditions at the Louisiana S...
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Crappy indigent defense causes false convictions
Grits for Breakfast: Crappy indigent defense causes false convictions: The San Antonio Current had a fine article recently titled " 254 ways to defend poor people in Texas " critiquing Texas' coun...
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: LBB brief: 'Adult parole in Texas'
Grits for Breakfast: LBB brief: 'Adult parole in Texas': The Legislative Budget Board today published a two-page issue brief titled " Adult Parole in Texas " (pdf) - a pretty general over...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Nuther Houston crime lab mess
Grits for Breakfast: Nuther Houston crime lab mess: The Houston Chronicle reported last week (June 18) about yet another clusterf&%k at the Houston crime lab, this time involving a tech f...
Grits for Breakfast: Nuther Houston crime lab mess
Grits for Breakfast: Nuther Houston crime lab mess: The Houston Chronicle reported last week (June 18) about yet another clusterf&%k at the Houston crime lab, this time involving a tech f...
Grits for Breakfast: Private lab may have mixed up hundreds of DWI samp...
Grits for Breakfast: Private lab may have mixed up hundreds of DWI samp...: Here's another mess for the Texas Forensic Science Commission to sort through, this time related to a private lab handling DWI blood wor...
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Private prison roundup
Grits for Breakfast: Private prison roundup: Here are a number of private prison related items that deserve Grits readers' attention: Texas Prison Bidness: Geo's Karnes County...
Grits for Breakfast: Roundup: Justice economics, pot politics, Taser po...
Grits for Breakfast: Roundup: Justice economics, pot politics, Taser po...: Here are a few items that haven't made it into their own individual posts but deserve Grits readers' attention: The real border se...
Monday, March 3, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Willingham prosecutor allegedly failed to disclose...
Grits for Breakfast: Willingham prosecutor allegedly failed to disclose...: The New York Times this week (Feb. 27) published an article on the Todd Willingham case casting doubt on the credibility of a jailhouse inf...
Grits for Breakfast: Private prison roundup
Grits for Breakfast: Private prison roundup: Here are a number of private prison related items that deserve Grits readers' attention: Texas Prison Bidness: Geo's Karnes County...
Grits for Breakfast: Texas' new junk science writ called 'elegant' and ...
Grits for Breakfast: Texas' new junk science writ called 'elegant' and ...: The Atlantic has a story (" In Texas, a New Law Lets Defendants Fight Bad Science ," Feb. 28) about SB 344 by Texas state Sen. J...
Grits for Breakfast: Governor signs junk-science habeas bill
Grits for Breakfast: Governor signs junk-science habeas bill: Grits was particularly gratified to finally see Governor Perry has signed SB 344 by Whitmire/Turner ensuring access to the courts for habea...
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge
Grits for Breakfast: Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge: Reported the SA Express-News today : Republican state District Judge Angus McGinty is expected to resign as soon as Friday amid allegati...
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: DA's files lost in Ed Graf arson case
Grits for Breakfast: DA's files lost in Ed Graf arson case: The McLennan County District Attorney's Office has lost the files from Ed Graf's original trial in which he was convicted based on j...
Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...
Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...: Check out this excellent story by Maurice Chammah from the Center for Public Integrity examining the closure of the Texas Juvenile Justice ...
Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...
Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...: Check out this excellent story by Maurice Chammah from the Center for Public Integrity examining the closure of the Texas Juvenile Justice ...
Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...
Grits for Breakfast: 'Closing a troubled symbol of Texas juvenile justi...: Check out this excellent story by Maurice Chammah from the Center for Public Integrity examining the closure of the Texas Juvenile Justice ...
Grits for Breakfast: DA's files lost in Ed Graf arson case
Grits for Breakfast: DA's files lost in Ed Graf arson case: The McLennan County District Attorney's Office has lost the files from Ed Graf's original trial in which he was convicted based on j...
Grits for Breakfast: Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge
Grits for Breakfast: Corruption allegations vs. San Antonio judge: Reported the SA Express-News today : Republican state District Judge Angus McGinty is expected to resign as soon as Friday amid allegati...
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: 'First 48' profits from false accusations against ...
Grits for Breakfast: 'First 48' profits from false accusations against ...: The New Times in Miami has an exceptional piece about an reality show on A&E titled " The First 48 makes millions off imprisoning ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Grits for Breakfast: Judges must enforce Michael Morton Act, now in eff...
Grits for Breakfast: Judges must enforce Michael Morton Act, now in eff...: Since the New York Times recently decried " rampant prosecutorial misconduct " related to concealment of exculpatory evidence, we ...
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