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Showing posts with label Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

From Grits for Breakfast: Indulging despair over degraded state of TX high criminal court elections

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Grits comments on an article I linked to last week where candidates to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals discussed alternative - non crimi...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Not so tough on crime

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One way to reduce crime is to not define every problem as a criminal act subject to law enforcement. Two Texas Tribune stories touch on this...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

From the Texas Tribune: Rick Perry's Criminal Case Officially Dismissed

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It would be worth analyzing patterns in what types of cases they dismiss and what types of cases they don't. Does it matter who is accus...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

From the Austin American Statesman: Appeals court dismisses Rick Perry’s criminal case

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This and an interesting series of events. I'll add links to relevant items later. 2306 students should note that the court refers to th...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Rules that Drawing DWI suspect blood without warrant unconstitutional

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I had a hunch this would happen sooner or later. This puts a damper on no refusal weekends, when the police could force someone they pull ov...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Texas Forensic Science Commission finds that the Department of Public Safety crime lab fabricated evidence against drug offenders. The Court of Criminal Appeals is expected to reverse the convictions.

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The story is in myhighplains.com , among other places. Since the criminal justice system in the state is decentralized, each affected county...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the birth of popular cuss words

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Warning to squeamish students - these links are about the development of a very popular 12 word long cussword - so be warned if you click on...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Right to Competent Counsel

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Just after we discussed the right to counsel in 2301 comes this story from the Chronicle : Texas, which executes more convicts than any oth...
Saturday, March 7, 2009

Judicial Misconduct in Texas

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Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is in trouble : Seventeen months ago, lawyers for a man facing ex...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

TCC

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This is a bit late for our discussion of the courts, but Grits for Breakfast tells us the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has OK'ed th...