Grits for Breakfast: Texas police misconduct roundup

Grits for Breakfast: Texas police misconduct roundup: Grits makes no comprehensive effort to track police misconduct around the state but can

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...