Showing posts with label District Attorneys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label District Attorneys. Show all posts
Thursday, March 07, 2024

Texas District Attorney, CCA races and the future of Texas criminal-justice reform

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The ouster of Kim Ogg in Houston and the re-election of José Garza in Austin -- coupled with the ouster of 3 members of the Government Alway...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

What was that guy's name again? Attacks on a progressive DA by a philistine

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An old-school tough-on-crime campaign has been launched in the Travis County Democratic primary by Some Guy I've Never Heard Of named Je...
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Saturday, March 26, 2022

Custodians of History: Old prosecutor files include marginalized voices usually excluded from public media and discourse

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Conversations about crime data and police and prosecutor files most frequently pertain to the news of the moment: Did bail reform cause crim...
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Friday, September 03, 2021

Politics explains oddities and strange bedfellows in Harris County bail debate

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Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg issued a 56-page report disputing the findings of federal bail monitors overseeing the settlement...
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Thursday, September 02, 2021

Prosecuting crimes of poverty isn't the same as combating a "crime wave"

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The following is a guest blog post co-authored by Elizabeth Rossi of Civil Rights Corps and Amanda Woog of the Texas Fair Defense Project. T...
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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Texas oyster crimes are no joke and a symptom of broader problems

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This blog has spent an inordinate amount of time over the years focused on Texas' array of oyster-related criminal offenses, to the poi...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Please prove me wrong: Jose Garza wants to make Grits eat my words

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Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza is trying to change Grits' mind about "progressive prosecutors." He hasn't succ...
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Monday, November 02, 2020

Presumptive Travis DA Jose Garza on death penalty, women's jail, and membership in TX state prosecutors association

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The Marshall Project's prolific Keri Blakinger generates more copy than her employers will publish, so she's been sending Grits an o...
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Thursday, October 01, 2020

Task Force on reforming Houston police: Empower oversight board, remove civil-service barriers to accountability at #txlege, and have someone besides the DA prosecute police misconduct (Grits has a suggestion)

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"The loss of public trust and credibility makes it difficult, if not impossible, for the police to forge partnerships in local communit...
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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Prosecutor-turned-TV-star cultivated ring of informants to give false testimony in cold cases, federal judge declares

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Imagine prosecutors cultivating a "ring" of jailhouse snitches to give false testimony in cases where there otherwise was insuffic...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Defense pushback against Kim Ogg's contention that judges can't consider COVID

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Last week, Grits wrote about a unusual motion to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals from Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg arguing ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

What the jury didn't hear, against SWAT raids for routine search warrants, bail explainers, courthouse architecture, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Margaret Moore, Rosa Jimenez, and what the jury didn't hear Wei...
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