Showing posts with label Innocence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Innocence. Show all posts
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Four stories let public peer into soul of Houston justice system

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The justice system can be difficult to understand for experts and darn near impossible for laypeople. Grits believes that's in part beca...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Reasonably Suspicious podcast back from hiatus: Austin police chief under fire, COVID in TX prisons and jails, Harris DA calls to overturn shady drug convictions, and other stories

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After a three-month hiatus while your correspondent underwent throat-cancer treatment, here's the May 2020 episode of Just Liberty's...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Blakinger scores big victory for hungry TDCJ inmates, visitation denied, why people convicted of unconstitutional statutes are innocent, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: TDCJ to improve lockdown food The Marshall Project's Keri...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2020

CCA passes on judging forensic hypnosis, paroled but still imprisoned, Ken Paxton's 'lonely and misguided' crusade, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: On the absurdity of keeping 15k already-paroled prisoners in TDCJ...
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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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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Meaty January episode of Reasonably Suspicious podcast: Hear federal judge scold Travis County DA; what's the remedy for school principal convicted based on junk science?; why DPS troopers' chase policy is a bad fit for urban policing, and more

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Here's the January 2020 episode of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, co-hosted by me and Mandy Marzullo. We have a meaty...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Federal judge annoyed with Travis DA for recalcitrance on innocence case

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Rosa Jimenez, the Austin babysitter wrongly convicted of murdering a child in her care 17 years ago, is likely innocent and should be releas...
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Friday, January 17, 2020

Parole board now Joe Bryan's only hope after TX CCA's shameful rejection of his habeas writ

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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' rejection of Joe Bryan's habeas corpus writ may rank as its most embarrassing moment since the ...
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Thursday, December 05, 2019

Public policy responses to informant abuses

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 Two informant related stories recall a raft of snitching coverage on this blog, now mostly more than a decade ago. First, our pal Pam Col...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Oklahoma! (does #cjreform); HPD raid response doesn't address phony informant; why do probationers die at high rates? And other stories

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Here are a few browser clearing odds and ends: One out of 8 Travis County jail bookings in 2018 was for Class C misdemeanors In Travis Co...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Podcast: New evidence of Rodney Reed's innocence, first thoughts on the Atatiana Jefferson shooting, and the Mystery of the Disappearing Misdemeanor Arrests

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Here's the latest Reasonably Suspicious podcast from Just Liberty: This is the October 2019 episode of Just Liberty's Reasonabl...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Humpty Dumpty, the Castle Doctrine, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: Humpty Dumpty and the Castle Doctrine The judge in former Dallas ...
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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Podcast: Ranking the greatest American prison songs, a crowd-sourced exoneration out of Tyler, and other stories

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Check out the August episode of the Reasonably Suspicious podcast. We've got a special treat this month, with Texas Monthly's Michae...
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Sunday, January 06, 2019

Innocence Project Math 101: Why it's certain eyewitnesses are still sending innocent people to prison in Texas

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Our friends at the prosecutor association want to pretend Texas has solved its problem with eyewitnesses falsely identifying innocent suspec...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Sharon Keller, bite-mark evidence, and the end of innocence forestalled

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The judges' conferences over the Steven-Chaney bite-mark case , according to reliable sources, was the most contentious at the Texas Cou...
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