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It's May of an odd numbered year which means wheat and chaff are separating when it comes to criminal-justice reform legislation from Te...

Last week at the Texas capitol, Grits witnessed a scene so funny I've retold it a dozen times since then and may as well share it with y...

Here are a few odds and ends from the Texas Legislature to occupy readers' attention while your correspondent is focused elsewhere: Th...

Ironically, there are bills on the Texas House floor calendar today (Thursday) aimed both at preventing false convictions and guaranteeing ...

The Texas Senate Transportation Committee this morning held a belated hearing on SB 93 by Ellis which would abolish the Driver Responsibili...

With a half-dozen Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition volunteers gathered around, along with some staffers and a few interested members, Rep....

The crisis over Texas' dysfunctional sex offender civil commitment program deepened this week, reported the Houston Chronicle's Mike...

TDCJ ad-seg cell interior. Statesman/TDCJ. Ugh. Eric Dexheimer at the Austin Statesman reports (April 25) that, on April 10, Texas witn...

As the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee prepares to hear overdose prevention legislation ( HB 225 by Guillen/Watson) on Tuesday, ne...

Texas Voices , a group made up of families of people on Texas' sex offender registry and others who support reform of Texas sex offender...

With just a little more than a month left in the 84th Texas Legislature, let's survey the landscape regarding significant criminal justi...

There's so much happening at the Legislature so quickly right now, good and bad, that it's hardly worth writing about all the moving...

Quite an array of bills on asset forfeiture reform have been featured lately on the western side of the capitol, if not so much in the press...

The Court of Criminal Appeals in November overturned Alfred Brown's capital murder conviction for allegedly shooting a Houston police of...

The Texas House last week approved a nice little bill by Rep. Alma Allen, HB 1546 , which would save the state $227.7 million over the next ...

There were a couple of positive developments on the harm reduction front in the Texas House this week involving bills your correspondent sup...

Here are a few items which merit Grits readers' attention even if I haven't had time to adumbrate them in individual blog posts: T...

The Texas Legislature seems intent on keeping Houston attorney Mark Bennett busy beating down unconstitutional statutes in an ongoing game o...

I don't know if this will be the first new crime created by the Texas Legislature this session (I doubt it), but it's surely the m...

The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee today will hear a pair of bills related to habeas corpus writs that relate to topics frequ...