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As Grits has been reporting in recent days, the newly minted Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission ("TCERC") has, at long l...

The Associated Press performed an investigation into police officers who lost their licenses over sexual misconduct, finding 1,000+ cases ov...

Grits this morning learned that last month new United Nations standards on solitary confinement and treatment of prisoners dubbed "the ...

The Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission held an organizational meeting on Thursday and will meet again before the end of the year. ...

Would making Daylight Savings Time permanent reduce crime? Reported the Houston Chronicle's Mike Glenn (Oct. 30): Daylight saving tim...

Grits found it remarkable that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals continued to deny death-row Larry Swearingen DNA testing even after the L...

Those of you living in Texas in 1991 may remember the high profile case of Houston banker Paul Broussard, a gay man, who was killed in the M...

As your correspondent prepares for today's Exoneration Commission hearing, here are a number of items which likely won't make it int...

Based on a new DOJ analysis, the Washington Post reported (10/27) that the number of ambush assaults against police is on the rise, even as...

Modern-day debtors’ prisons, where municipal and JP courts routinely jail people too poor to pay fines and fees from traffic tickets and oth...

Thanks a bunch to our pal Vikrant Reddy and his staff at the Charles Koch Institute for extending an invitation to your correspondent to be ...

Big day for my employers at the Innocence Project of Texas today: Prosecutor faces interrogation over Brady In Dallas, IPOT board chairma...

Grits hopes Texas' Governor, Lt. Governor, and other state leaders all read George Will's column in yesterday's Washington Post ...

It seems like Halloween has become a national PR day for state sex offender registries. This morning Grits typed the phrase "Hallow...

This year, Texas became among the only states to systematically track peace officer-involved shootings, with agencies filling out a one-page...

Here are a few items which merit Grits readers' attention even if I don't have time at the moment to blog on each of them: Police ...

Now that the US Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security have begun requiring agents to obtain search warrants to use ...

This blog tracks neither federal legislation nor D.C. politics, but it sure doesn't hurt those of us fishing downstream to have Texas...

Pursuant to a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals order, on Monday in Dallas a former prosecutor will be called to testify regarding deals with ...

Might people who submitted their DNA for private genetic testing wind up having their profiles run against evidence from crime scenes? Accor...