From the blogs

Looking for more Texas criminal justice news and commentary? I've enjoyed a number of different posts at these blogs recently that may interest Grits readers:

• Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
• The Back Gate
• Wretched of the Earth
• Houston's Clear Thinkers
• Texas Law Blog

Also, Doc Berman over at Sentencing Law and Policy has some great posts up, including this one suggesting an appropriate circumstance for shaming punishments, and this one questioning whether steep sentencing discounts for cooperators (a.k.a., "snitches") amount to a denial of the right to trial by jury by forcing most cases into plea bargains.