Showing posts with label Judiciary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Judiciary. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The high cost of hubris: Ransomware attack sidelines online presence of Texas courts

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Somebody successfully launched a ransomware attack on the Texas appellate court system. State officials decided not to pay, so now it's...
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Saturday, April 11, 2020

Judge ruled Abbott exceeded his authority on executive order limiting personal bonds, but the fight's not over

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UPDATE : The Supreme Court of Texas on Saturday issued a temporary stay on Judge Livingston's Temporary Restraining Order, meaning Abbo...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Litigation challenges Abbott's executive order on COVID-19 jail releases

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The Texas Fair Defense Project, ACLU of Texas, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued Governor Greg Abbott over his execu...
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Saturday, February 01, 2020

Drug War propping up Texas criminal caseloads in a time of declining crime

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The new 2019 annual statistical report for the Texas Office of Court Administration provides these broad datapoints about the Texas crimina...
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Friday, January 10, 2020

Should Texas switch to non-partisan judicial elections?

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The Texas Judicial Selection Commission, created by the Legislature last year, says Lone-Star-State judges should be selected in non-partisa...
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Friday, November 29, 2019

Report cast dismal light on indigent defense in Amarillo

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On the November episode of the Reasonably Suspicious podcast , my co-host Mandy Marzullo and I discussed a new, commissioned report by the ...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

Judges' 'unchecked power' to blame for high TX indigent defense caseloads

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"Unchecked power" of and "conflict of interests" by local judges are the biggest barriers to reforming Texas' indige...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Judge abused discretion, violated due-process rights, by revoking probation w/o a hearing: Will he be sanctioned?

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A misdemeanor DWI case out of San Antonio deserves broader attention, with interesting and important implications on several levels. Way...
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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Bail-reform blues: Can't please all parties when reforming pretrial-detention process

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Governor Greg Abbott's endorsement of bail reform last year appeared to give the issue fresh life. But Abbott has now  backed a bail-ref...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Viewing the 2018 mid-terms through a Texas #cjreform lens

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There are many lenses through which to view the 2018 mid-term elections. On this blog, your correspondent examines Texas politics and policy...
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Monday, September 10, 2018

TX Judicial Council recommendations on bail reform

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Check out the Texas Judicial Council's legislative recommendations related to pretrial detention/bail reform, and the description of th...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

What the judges want: Judicial Council recommendations to the #txlege

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The Texas Judicial Council last month issued its recommendations to the Legislature on criminal-justice reform heading into the 86th sessio...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2018

One in three murder charges in TX a capital case

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Now that the new Annual Statistical Report for the Texas judiciary is out, let's take a quick look at data on capital murder cases in T...
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Sunday, April 01, 2018

NY Times story on Galveston indigent defense ripe for other reporters to localize

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In the New York Times last week (March 29), former Austin Statesman editor Richard Oppell authored an article that could resonate througho...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

On the institutional basis for ineffective assistance: Travis Jail Reduction Docket

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Travis County will make unspecified changes to their "jail reduction docket" to counter criticisms that it operated as a plea mil...
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Saturday, September 23, 2017

Public defender for appeals would reduce waste, increase efficiency, protect rights

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Lots of appeals in Texas' criminal-court system are filed pro se by people who lack representation, and often they make procedural erro...
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Sunday, March 12, 2017

Criminal justice job security in an era of declining crime

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Despite crime near recorded lows in many areas, Texas cops, prosecutors and courts continue to treat the drug war as a growth industry. Here...
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Monday, February 27, 2017

States' rights Trumped: An ode to forgotten federalism

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Okay, we've heard a lot about federalism and states' rights from Governor Greg Abbott over the years. So will we now hear an outcry...
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Monday, January 09, 2017

Texas' top judges hold summit to address trust in criminal justice system

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Thanks to Grits contributing writer Eva Ruth Moravec for attending this event in Dallas. Grits had wanted to go but ended up at the dentist...
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