Welcome to Texas justice: You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride.
This week Jordan Smith at the Austin Chronicle offers up a fine article on failures of the Board of Pardons and Parole to follow its release guidelines, and a pending lawsuit filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project to seek an end to the cloak of secrecy surrounding parole decisions. Good stuff! Read it for a better understanding of how the parole system works and some of the problems from an inside perspective.
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- Blawg Wisdom
- Evan Smith, Editor-in-chief and publisher, The Texas Tribune
- The Austin Chronicle
- Emily Bazelon, Slate
- San Antonio Current
- Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
- Erica Grieder, The Economist
- Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly
- Doug Berman, Sentencing Law & Policy
- Marie Gottschalk, author of 'Caught'
- DallasBlog
- Scott Medlock, Texas Civil Rights Project
- Solomon Moore, NY Times criminal justice correspondent
- Donald Lee, Texas Conference of Urban Counties
-Attorney Bob Mabry, Conroe
- Corey Yung, Sex Crimes Blog
Tommy Adkisson,
Bexar County Commissioner
- Dirty Third Streets
- Texas Public Policy Foundation
David Jennings, aka "Big Jolly"
John Bradley,
Former Williamson County District Attorney, now former Attorney General of Palau
- To the People
Contact: gritsforbreakfast AT gmail.com
4 comments:
Anyone that accepts a plea bargain because a defense attorney advised them they could get parole after a quarter or half of the sentence should be able to win an appeal based upon ineffective assistance of council!
Anyone that asks "Why would anyone plead guilty when they're innocent?" should read the comments of the Judge in Ms. Cotton's case. He wrote that her mother refused to cooperate with the system and accept a plea bargain, and that's why she wasn't given probation.
The secrecy in the parole process needs to end.
Anyone who accepts a plea bargain automatically signs away their rights to appeal at a later date. We found this out to our cost.
Its good to see someone taking an interest in Rissie's cronies.
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