Friday, September 29, 2017

The Case of the Sleeping Gatekeepers, or Bolstering Daubert

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Over the past several years - really since the lead-up to the National Academy of Sciences 2009 study of forensics - Grits has been giving i...
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Thursday, September 28, 2017

Bexar County to cease arrests for small quantities of pot

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Bexar County DA Nico Lahood has announced people will no longer be arrested for small amounts of pot in San Antonio, implementing a system ...

Texas prison gangs (still) responsible for much Juarez violence

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Grits hasn't had the bandwidth to focus on border security topics for quite a few years, but I noticed a story from the El Paso Times wh...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Should decarceration advocates push for federal reforms?

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Writing in Vox, John Pfaff dislikes Cory Booker's Reverse Mass Incarceration Act for two principle reasons. First, he thinks it reacts ...
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Roundup: Promoting rural decarceration, looking inside the black box, ending 'trace' drug cases in Houston, and declining juvie incarceration

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention and will allow me to clear my browser tabs: Court testing limits of D...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

The police union playbook for responding to racially charged police shootings

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Police unions have been under fire lately for protecting bad cops , opposing reforms , and engaging in bullying behavior in response to ...
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High volume of Class C arrests calls into question Harris County DA 'intake prosecutor' system

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Grits had earlier linked to an academic article by William and Mary Law School Associate Dean Adam Gershowitz titled, " The Intake Pros...
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Interpreting new UCR crime data: Context is everything

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John Pfaff offers a sensible way to look at recent Uniform Crime Report data : Still near the bottom of a trough on crime rates, despite two...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

A primer on conservative messaging for indigent defense reform

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At the Marshall Project, Alysia Santo has a story titled, " How conservatives learned to love free lawyers for the poor ," telling...
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Saturday, September 23, 2017

Public defender for appeals would reduce waste, increase efficiency, protect rights

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Lots of appeals in Texas' criminal-court system are filed pro se by people who lack representation, and often they make procedural erro...
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Friday, September 22, 2017

Austin's police contract among worst in nation from accountability standpoint, says Campaign Zero cofounder

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Campaign Zero's Sam Sinyangwe was in town this week to lobby the Austin City Council for reforms in its meet and confer agreement, fres...
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Texas not among states arresting prison visitors for traffic warrants

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In Michigan, state prisons arrest visitors who arrive with outstanding traffic warrants, running their names and arresting them while they w...
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TDCJ ends solitary confinement as punishment, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere: TDCJ is ending the use of solitary c...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Texas yet to 'turn the page' on police reform, and other stories

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Lets's clear out Grits' browser tabs with a quick roundup of stories about policing which deserve Grits readers' attention: Te...
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Sunday, September 17, 2017

Reasonably Suspicious: Listen to the podcast, join us for our Launch Party!

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After several months of working out the kinks in a soft launch, Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast now is up and running on ...
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Saturday, September 16, 2017

Why criminal court judges are poor forensic gatekeepers

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Yes . This . Why do judges frequently fail to keep faulty forensics out in criminal cases despite the fact that they rigorously enforce Da...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Has Texas fixed the death penalty?, and other notable Texan commentary on the justice system

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A few items, while I have you: Views of the system from the perspective of the punished These recent opinion pieces from Texans with expe...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Midland DA touts drug-reform themes

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The Brooklyn District Attorney's race will be decided today in a Democratic primary which has been most notable  for the various candida...
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Sunday, September 10, 2017

Natural experiment tests rehabilitation potential for teen killers

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Source: TCJC Twitter feed . Grits has been thinking a lot lately about the question of whether adult justice systems sufficiently addres...
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A rare opportunity moment for bail reform

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When Grits first began focusing on inequities in bail and pretrial detention back in the mid-aughts, insiders understood I was writing abou...
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