Colorado prisons are overflowing with inmates, at a cost of nearly $700 million a [...]
Priming Postconviction Representation
By Andrew E. Taslitz
Issue editor for the symposium on postconviction practices, Prof. Andrew Taslitz, Howard University [...]
County Commissioners approved a program Wednesday that gives judges the option [...]
Correction: November 1, 2009
More than 2,000 state [...]
09-0987 WINFREY, RICHARD LYNN, SR., SAN JACINTO, MURDER
1. An important question implicating the [...]
Three men who spent months in jail after dogs linked their scents to evidence from crimes they did [...]
Many readers have asked what I think about the bizarre story regarding Texas Youth Commission Ombudman Catherine Evans, a former juvenile court judge from Dallas who is under fire for smuggling contraband - allegedly including weapons, cash, a cell phone, and prescription drugs - onto TYC [...] Since July, a total of 81 U.S. law enforcement officers have come here on three-week shifts to teach such basic police skills' [...]
Today would have been Maggie Lee Henson's 13th birthday, and I still can hardly believe she won't see any more. At left, see a picture from her 12th birthday.A forensic biologist who was fired by Dallas County's crime lab said he will file a whistleblower lawsuit [...]
The [...]
Having grown up in Tyler, the passing of the late, great federal Judge William Wayne Justice last week hit very close to home.
Pete at Drug War Rant informs us of the DVD release of the feature film American Violet, which is based on a prominent drug-war scandal out of Hearne, in Central Texas near Bryan:A judge on the [...]
As his re-election campaign rattles to life this fall, Watkins finds the national halo he's been standing under has become more [...]
