Grits for Breakfast

The Texas Public Policy Foundation's Marc Levin has been promoting the idea of codifying the rule of lenity , so I was interested to he...

Lots going on and I won't have time to write about all of it. Here are several items clogging my web browser that merit Grits readers at...

Another questionably convicted capital defendant has walked off of death row a free man. Manuel Velez, whose capital murder conviction was o...

Grits liked Marc Levin's suggestions to the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee yesterday to reduce the proliferation of new laws and...

At the beginning of yesterday's House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee meeting, Chairman Abel Herrero, a Corpus Christi Democrat, announ...

By the Legislative Budget Board's estimate, Texas spent $452 million on stand-alone border security expenses from fiscal years 2008 thro...

The Houston Chronicle's Mike Morris brought us an update (Oct. 6) on the vetting of the Houston PD's rape kit testing backlog. The ...

Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia says he's fired 249 people since taking office five years ago and expects the number to rise followi...

What a bizarre story! A former Amarillo PD officer was indicted last week on evidence tampering charges. Here's the nut: Officer Saulo...

The Economist last week (Oct. 4) published a pair of pieces lamenting the super-sizing of prosecutorial power and calling for the state to h...

The Dallas Morning News yesterday reported (" Prostitute testifies she traded sex for protection from ex-Dallas cop ," Oct. 6) on ...

Grits apparently forgot to post anything about this story when it came out last month, so let's correct the oversight. Two Dallas men,...

Long-time Texas parole attorney Bill Habern, whose comments on the Pamela Freeman case Grits appended to this post , followed up with an ema...

Today is the tenth anniversary of the first blog post on Grits for Breakfast, which itself subsumed a website on similar themes (hand-coded ...

More detail has emerged regarding the indictment of parole commissioner Pamela Freeman reported by Grits yesterday. A story in the Houston C...

National Journal credits the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Marc Levin as the explanation for " How Republicans Stopped Being Tou...

Here are several items that haven't made it into independent posts this week but merit Grits readers' attention: Judge: Waco murde...

The Detroit Free Press has been publishing a terrific series of stories about Aramark, a private vendor of prison food and commissaries whic...

Here are several items that haven't made it into individual posts but which merit Grits readers' attention: Meet the 'Smart on...

Travis County District Judge Gisela Triana last month ruled that the Texas Public Information Act applies to private prison records, reporte...