Grits for Breakfast

Last night's Texas House County Affairs Committee hearing on the Sandra Bland episode sounds like it included some dramatic moments and ...

Ed. Note : As Grits prepares to go on vacation for a couple of weeks, Rebecca Bernhardt and Emily Gerrick from the Texas Fair Defense Projec...

This morning, I received a text from the missus* who suggested that, in 2017, reprised legislation to limit police arresting motorists for C...

After your correspondent became executive director of the Innocence Project of Texas last month, Michael Hall at Texas Monthly asked to inte...

Grits readers are so familiar with the masthead that most of you have probably stopped reading it: "You might beat the rap, but you won...

For those interested, the Texas District and County Attorneys Association posted their Brady/Michael Morton Act training materials online , ...

Today I compiled these resources for a colleague on Texas and federal reviews of flawed forensics in hair microscopy cases and thought there...

When the Texas Indigent Defense Commission issued its " Guidelines for Indigent Defense Caseloads " in January, your corresponden...

Your preoccupied correspondent had not until this morning read the voluminous press surrounding Sandra Bland's untimely and unlikely sui...

Reported AP's Michael Graczyk , "The Texas Department of Public Safety sent a notice June 30 that the FBI-developed population data...

Better late than never, the Dallas Morning News' Tom Benning offered up an assessment of research regarding the public safety benefits, ...

How much does it cost to effectively defend oneself against felony charges? According to Rick Perry, upwards of two million dollars, or seve...

A friend forwarded me a copy of this recidivism analysis from Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison rehabilitation programs, lamentin...

See more coverage of Texas' new truancy law and an editorial from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Meanwhile, the Office of Court Adminis...

President Obama delivered a major speech in Philadelphia today on federal criminal justice reform initiatives. (Read excerpts here .) Find ...

Grits was pleased that an associate turned me onto a blog by Penn State law prof. D.H. Kaye titled " Forensic Science, Statistics and t...

 Here are several items which may interest Grits readers: Read a rather amazing story of police and prosecutorial overkill from my hometo...

DPS brass continues to enjoy financial rewards that front-line state employees or managers in the private sector could only dream about. Rep...

In Waco, District Judge Ralph Strother selected "longtime Waco police officer James Head" to serve as foreman of the grand jury p...

Texas' new legislation related to police body cameras has been mostly praised in the media , but Grits must admit I'm not a fan. You...