Showing posts with label Harris County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harris County. Show all posts
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, 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, January 29, 2020

Bail reform saves lives, "The Ogg Blog," pay-per-surveillance, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Kim Ogg oppo blog launched The Justice Collaborative has launched T...
Friday, October 25, 2019

The state of 'progressive prosecutors' in Texas

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The article in The Atlantic titled " Texas prosecutor fights for reform " has a certain "Man Bites Dog" quality, whic...
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Monday, September 30, 2019

'Progressive prosecutors' not all so progressive on bail reform

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At the Texas Tribune festival this weekend, Josie Duffy-Rice, president of The Appeal, moderated a panel with three Democratic Texas Distri...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

The Art of Deflection: HPD chief shows how to blame judges for policing failures

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Police chiefs in Harris County continue to attack bail reform - most recently Houston police chief Art Acevedo - but the examples given neve...
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Monday, September 16, 2019

Police shootings, jailhouse snitches, and debunking anti-bail-reform arguments

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits' readers' attention: Federal judge debunks anti-bail reform arguments from Harris DA...
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Monday, September 09, 2019

Harris DA sanctioned for Brady/Michael-Morton Act violations

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In Harris County, reported the Houston Chronicle's Keri Blakinger, Judge Andrew Wright  issued a monetary sanction of $500 on the Harri...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Harris probation director clarifies case highlighted in Grits post

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Last week, Grits posted an item about the Harris County probation department that included a critique of a Tweet touting a client who could...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

A first-cut reaction to Harris-County DA Kim Ogg's reasons for opposing bail reform

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Why does Harris County DA Kim Ogg oppose the proposed bail-reform settlement in Houston? Let's dig into this bit by bit, starting with t...
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Roundup: Debtors prison practices, a hempsplainer, why the Harris DA opposes bail reform, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Debtors Prison Blues Texas was one of five over-represented states ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Harris County probation department making big improvements, but it's still probation

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As part of reforms implemented with its MacArthur grant, Harris County consolidated all of its state jail cases into one district-court dock...
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Friday, August 16, 2019

Additional Harris-DA staffing mustn't contribute to the 'low-rent arms race between prosecution and indigent defense' ... or, why Keri Blakinger is a journalism goddess

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Now that Keri Blakinger exists, along with the Marshall Project, The Appeal, Google News feeds, and a variety of advocacy newsletters that w...
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Monday, August 05, 2019

Harris County bail-reform settlement a landmark defeat of Texas bail-industry lobby

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There once was a county named Harris  Whose bail system left them embarrassed Then judges were sued And elections did lose So now l...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Hiring more Harris Co. prosecutors would harm the rest of the system

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In Houston, liberal advocacy groups, including the Texas Organizing Project , the Texas Civil Rights Project , and the Texas Criminal Justic...
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Guerra-Thompson: Harris County bail compromise still discriminates against poor people

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Sandra Guerra Thompson, Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at the University of Houston Law School, is unimpressed with the propose...
Monday, January 21, 2019

TDCJ suicide record argues against state takeover of Harris County Jail

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In a roundup post over the weekend, Grits pointed to an odd story emerging when "Sen. John Whitmire suggested the state should take ov...
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