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...