Showing posts with label Tarrant County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tarrant County. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Fort Worth police pull rug out from under Tarrant DA on no-pot-arrest policy

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What the hell is happening in Fort Worth over marijuana enforcement? Today brings two contradictory news reports on the topic from Cowtown. ...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Tarrant DA told pro-#cjreform Tea Party meeting there's no mass incarceration in Texas

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Your correspondent spent yesterday evening at a meeting of the Northeast Tarrant County Tea Party on criminal-justice reform , featuring sta...
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Friday, March 30, 2018

March Reasonably Suspicious Podcast: Primary election wrap-up, pushing #cjreform in state party platforms, unconstitutional legal fees, Harris County bail suit update, a stunning judicial power play, and more

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Sliding in under the wire at the end of the month, check out the March 2018 episode of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, co...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Why not to recruit Stormtroopers to your police department: Cowtown edition

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Fort Worth PD yesterday released another Stormtrooper Recruitment video a video of an officer shooting an unarmed man in the back seconds ...
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Thursday, February 04, 2016

Reforming use-of-force policies, incarcerating pregnant women because they're poor, and other stories

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Let's share a few links with Grits readers, just to clear the browser tabs: Charles Sebesta as Inspector Javert Defrocked prosecutor ...
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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Widespread police testilying alleged: Tarrant DA responds by eliminating method of documenting it

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When a prosecutor hears a police officer lie on the stand, should there be a process by which they document it, or should they just keep us...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Benchslap for judge-turned-Tarrant DA for gagging defense counsel at sentencing

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From Decatur attorney Barry Green : New Tarrant County DA Sharen Wilson had a case she presided over as a judge reversed on Thursday for...
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Monday, January 12, 2015

Squeeze in a visit? Weekly visitation hours at Harris jail 1/4 those in Tarrant

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Here are a few relevant data on inmate visitation from Houston and around the state as reported by James Pinkerton at the Houston Chronicle ...
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Monday, December 22, 2014

Joe Shannon on 'doing justice'

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From outgoing Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney Joe Shannon Jr.'s farewell message on the department's website : Having pr...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

I Can't Breathe, South Texas style, and other stories

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Here's a browser clearing compendium of items  that merit Grits readers' attention even though I haven't had time to adumbrate t...
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Monday, October 20, 2014

Are MEs fudging cause of death for Texas prisoners?

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If one person per day is dying in custody of state and local law enforcement in Texas, the next obvious question is, "What do those ca...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

How long should cops get to jail people without charges?

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Here's a messed up story for you. If you've been arrested in Dallas but police haven't told you why, for the past quarter centur...
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Of kingpins, pirates and privateers: The application of civil asset forfeiture to alleged college-student pot dealers

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When Texas first created asset forfeiture law it was ostensibly to go after "kingpins," if one were to believe proponents' rhe...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Ethan Couch and the media outrage machine

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Grits tends to avoid topics that a) are widely covered in the MSM and b) tap into hot-button culture war issues fueling the never-ending ou...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Fort Worth chief apologizes for use of off-duty officers at NHTSA roadblock

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The Fort Worth Police Chief issued an apology on Thursday for allowing off-duty police officers to participate in a federal survey in which ...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Judge who berated jurors could have violated judicial canons

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Texas Lawyer's John Council has a feature (Nov. 21) on the story ( covered here on Grits ) of a visiting judge in Tarrant County berati...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Fort Worth cops used roadblock to gather cheek swabs, blood draws for federal research project

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Here's a revolting development: Law enforcement performing roadblocks where private contractors perform cheek swabs and breathalyzer tes...
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Monday, November 18, 2013

Judge blasted jury because they disagreed with him

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Via the blog Liberally Lean in the Land of Dairy Queen comes word of an outburst by a visiting judge in Tarrant County berating a jury for ...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Strip searching in jail overkill for minor traffic violations

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Last year the US Supreme Court okayed jails strip searching defendants upon entry, even for minor offenses. CBS-11 out of Dallas reported l...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Arlington PD launching steroid testing after latest scandal

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Earlier this year, Grits opined that it was, " Time for comprehensive steroid testing at Arlington PD ," and now, reported the For...
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