Grits for Breakfast

Just a few items I wanted to point out from other sources: First, sorry to see Paul Kennedy put his fine blog, The Defense Rests , on hiat...

The Austin Police Department wants an astonishing 19.5% budget increase in the coming year to hire more officers, reported the Austin States...

At the blog Above the Law, attorney Mark Hermann speculates on the future of the legal profession if and when driverless cars like the one ...

If, like me, you're prone to indulging in political tea-leaf reading, here's some potentially good news for Texans who favor keepi...

At a panel on Friday concluding a continuing legal education seminar sponsored by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Gov. Rick ...

Your correspondent spent this morning waiting around to testify to the Texas House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee about the ...

The brand spanking new Marshall Project , a nonprofit journalism project focused on criminal justice, launched its first big feature this we...

As the Forensic Science Commission this week in Fort Worth discussed Texas' nascent review of convictions involving possibly erroneous h...

Prosecutors and staff at the McLennan County District Attorney's Office are jumping ship, reported the Waco Tribune Herald, with three p...

GPS ankle monitor: Looks uncomfortable Lately, your correspondent has been fiddling in my spare time with a hobbyist-level wearable tech...

Here are a few odds and ends that haven't made it into full, individual posts since my return from Mexico City but which still deserve G...

The Austin Statesman on Sunday published an extended investigative piece on Texas' beefed up border security efforts and posed the simpl...

While I was on vacation in Mexico last week, Texas saw its first exoneration in which the District Attorney proactively tested samples from ...

Lisa Falkenberg at the Houston Chronicle has posted a four-part series describing abusive interrogation by a grand jury so intense it may ca...

Reversing a decade long policy implemented after the Texas House shot down the idea in 2003, the Texas Department of Public Safety earlier t...

A reporter pointed me to this page on the Texas DPS website titled " Texas Criminal Alien Arrest Data " posting material that Col....

Michael Hall at Texas Monthly has posted an interview with Mike Ware and Keith Hampton who were named criminal defense lawyers of the year ...

New data out on Texas prison crime and violence from the TDCJ office of inspector general: Mike Ward at the Houston Chronicle reported last ...

From the new, proposed ethics code for the Society of Professional Journalists: "Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity or following the l...

Houston criminal defense lawyer Paul Kennedy provided ground-level perspective on the Michael Morton Act waivers defense counsel are being ...