Grits for Breakfast: Texas trends follow national decline in misdemeano...

Grits for Breakfast: Texas trends follow national decline in misdemeano...: The Wall Street Journal on Sunday  published an item reporting on a nationwide decline in misdemeanor arrests, a trend this blog has been d...

Grits for Breakfast: Interview: Parsing the civil-rights lawsuit demand...

Grits for Breakfast: Interview: Parsing the civil-rights lawsuit demand...: In last month's Reasonably Suspicious podcast , co-host Mandy Marzullo and I interviewed Texas civil-rights attorney Scott Medlock about...

Grits for Breakfast: The state of 'progressive prosecutors' in Texas

Grits for Breakfast: The state of 'progressive prosecutors' in Texas: The article in The Atlantic titled " Texas prosecutor fights for reform " has a certain "Man Bites Dog" quality, whic...

Grits for Breakfast: DNA mixture software widely used in Texas disallow...

Grits for Breakfast: DNA mixture software widely used in Texas disallow...: For some time, Grits has been  skeptical  whether DNA-mixture software would hold up to "Daubert" scrutiny if judges were to dire...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ 'behaved dishonorably' in prison-heat litigat...

Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ 'behaved dishonorably' in prison-heat litigat...: A federal judge declared that Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials had "behaved dishonorably" by allegedly providing th...

Grits for Breakfast: Harris DA sanctioned for Brady/Michael-Morton Act ...

Grits for Breakfast: Harris DA sanctioned for Brady/Michael-Morton Act ...: In Harris County, reported the Houston Chronicle's Keri Blakinger, Judge Andrew Wright  issued a monetary sanction of $500 on the Harri...

Grits for Breakfast: Why revocations from probation and parole make up ...

Grits for Breakfast: Why revocations from probation and parole make up ...: Two recent reports on supervising people in the community post-conviction deserve Grits readers' attention: From the Texas Public Poli...