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Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire filed complaints this week against three Harris County magistrate judges -  Eric H...

“A lie ain’t a side of a story. It’s just a lie.”                                                                   - Terry Hanning, Th...

This is a rather stunning story out of Brown County , and affirms why it was never a good idea to allow prosecutors to accept bribes gifts ...

As journalists across the nation engage in incessant navel gazing over how to reconstruct their profession's practices in response ...

Grits isn't sure at this point why journalists bother examining performance outcomes or cost-benefit analyses when it comes to immigrati...

Thanksgiving is over, but Grits is grateful for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Elsa Alcala, without whom I wouldn't have been awa...

Grits plans to spend some of the weekend catching up on my reading, and thought I'd share links to a few recent academic articles I'...

David Temple may be the most thankful Texan in the state today. This week the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the conviction ...

As President Obama's total sentence commutations surges past 1,000, it's worth remembering two things. First, just four years ago, h...

Congrats to the San Antonio Four and their attorneys on the women's exoneration and findings of actual innocence from the Texas Court of...

Just got an email from the good folks at KHOU. It read in part: In an era of smartphones and social media, body cameras have become increa...

Here are a few odds and ends to clear Grits' browser tabs of brief items which merit readers' attention: Report confronts sexual a...

Not all judges view poor defendants who can't pay fines for petty offenses as a source of "job security," but neither is the a...

In the wake of legalization votes last week in California and elsewhere, marijuana is bubbling up as a sleeper issue, as evidenced by the f...

In a new paper published this month in the Hofstra Law Review, Grits contributing writer Sandra Guerra Thompson argued that prosecutors are...

Here's the abstract to a new academic paper titled, " The Wrong Decision at the Wrong Time: Utah v. Strieff in the Era of Aggressiv...

With the pick-a-pal method for selecting grand juries now ended in the Lone Star state , the Texas Public Policy Foundation has a new repor...

One sees shades of the Orange County snitching scandal out of California in this new story from the Harris County DA's office, reported...

As the whole world ponders the outcome of national elections (a subject which Grits has for the most part dutifully avoided, focusing on my ...

Private prison stocks soared upon news of Donald Trump's ascension to the presidency. That makes sense. For starters, it's possi...