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June 24, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Death Penalty Off the Hook
Preemptive strike against wrongful conviction fails in murder trial prehearing
"...According to the CCA, in an opinion written by Judge Cathy Cochran, while those issues "certainly deserve careful consideration,"..."
Jan. 21, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories
Some died, some walked
"...settlement of the Sanders family's civil rights suit – Judge Sam Sparks was not amused. APD officer-shooter Leonardo Quintana..."
Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Is Death Unconstitutional?
Judge to consider whether Texas death penalty risks innocent lives
"...That is, essentially, the question that Harris Co. District Judge Kevin Fine will be asked in a hearing that..."
Dec. 3, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith
DeLay Trial: Jury Hanging Fire
No verdict, but 'making progress'
"...had gone home without a verdict, after informing the judge they were "making progress." During deliberations that began Monday..."
Nov. 26, 2010 News Feature by Michael King
Criminally Innocent
How can you be exonerated of a crime that never happened?
"...that a person would plead guilty, Hampton says one judge pointed out during that 2002 oral argument, none of..."
Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Travis Judicial Dems Win One, Lose One
Democrat secures county judicial race, while Republican wins 3rd Court seat
"...Rick Perry after the untimely death of elected Dem Judge Scott Ozmun. As it happens, Sulak and Ozmun were..."
Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
The Race To Balance Out the Supremes
Dems, Libertarians vie to break GOP lock
"...conservative base hung up on the idea of "activist" judges. (To be fair, each of the Republicans vying to..."
Oct. 22, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
The Race for the Third
Kuhn and Goodwin face off for high-profile appeals court
"...his share of its large docket. As an appellate judge, "you have to explain how the case fits into..."
Oct. 8, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Election Results
State and local tallies
"...(Turnout 6.65%) 147th District JudgeStatewide Cliff Brown22,58270.9% Bill Gammon9,27929.1% 201st District Judge Amy Clark..."
March 5, 2010 News Feature
201st Court: Meachum Runaway
Patterson's Perry links scupper her district court plan
"...opening for civil attorney Meachum to challenge the longtime judge, who had subsequently filed for the 201st. "The people..."
March 3, 2010 News Post by Michael King
The People's Courts
Dems square off in three races
"...workers' compensation cases, and as an associate municipal court judge – and says that as JP she would like..."
Feb. 19, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Innovative Justice: Lipscombe vs. Seelig
Both candidates push alternatives to incarceration
"...That's how John Lipscombe, candidate for judge of County Court at Law No. 3, sees it...."
Feb. 12, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Keller's Lawyer Shifts Blame
Judge Sharon Keller's attorney says Michael Richard's lawyers are to blame for his execution
"...Chip Babcock, the controversy surrounding Texas' highest criminal court Judge Sharon Keller is all manufactured by lawyers for the..."
Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith
The Man in the White Hat
Larry Joe Doherty rides into the battle for CD 10
"...It's Judge Larry Joe...."
Oct. 3, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols
TPJ Campaign Complaint Leads Back to WilCo
Texans for Public Justice says Chief Justice Kenneth Law has engaged in illegal fundraising practices – but that's not all
"...That was the same day Law, writing for a three-judge panel, upheld a WilCo district court's granting of summary..."
Oct. 3, 2008 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland
SOS Wins Ammo in Gunn Fight
After a few bad years, SOS finally wins a court case
"...the way it looked Monday after a Travis Co. judge threw out a $300,000 judgment that drove the group..."
Sept. 12, 2008 News Feature by Amy Smith
CCA Jump-Starts the Death Machine
Executions resume after Court of Criminal Appeals rules against death row inmates' challenges
"...Heliberto Chi, a plurality of the court, led by Judge Barbara Hervey, ruled in Chi's case that Texas' tri-chemical..."
June 20, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Early Voting, Part Two
More early voting results from Travis County
"...Thompson 46.36% Dale Henry 22.09% Place 7 Supreme Court Judge Baltasar D. Cruz 46.32% Sam Houston 53.68% Place 8..."
March 4, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Blackwell Supports Lipscombe
"...a frivolous ethics complaint against Lipscombe and his wife, Judge Jan Breland. I have known both of them for..."
Feb. 27, 2008 Postmarks
Drug War Blowback
Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny
"...warrant signed three days earlier by Travis Co. District Judge Melissa Goodwin, the officers were authorized to be there..."
Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Naked City
"...first time in 1977, Earle served as a municipal judge – at 26 he was then the youngest person..."
Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature
Reefer Madness
North Dakota hemp farmers go to court to defend right to tell DEA to butt out of plans to grow nonnarcotic hemp plant
"...14 in Bismarck, where she insisted before U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland that the agency's "administrative process" for granting..."
Nov. 30, 2007 News Column by Jordan Smith
Point Austin: Full Court Press
The Moriarity lawsuit arrives in court – trailing a herd of lawyers
"...morning in the 353rd District Court, Travis Co., Honorable Judge Margaret A. Cooper presiding. Robert Notzon, attorney for former..."
Nov. 2, 2007 News Column by Michael King
Closing Time? Attorneys Call for Justice's Head
Public cries foul over Keller's killer instincts
"...or ouster – of Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller, who they argue violated not only the..."
Oct. 19, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Naked City
"...of lethal injection, presiding Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon "the Executioner" Keller personally blocked a last-minute death..."
Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature
Ex-TCEQ Employees Lose Discrimination Lawsuit
Two former state employees lose discrimination suit
"...complaints filed against her. With that, by numerous accounts, Judge Sam Sparks exploded -- dismissing the jury, angrily reprimanding..."
Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland
Scott Panetti: Sane Enough to Execute?
Supremes' June 28 ruling in case of Texas death row
inmate Scott Panetti concludes that law requires
condemned inmates have some 'rational understanding'
of why they're being executed in order to satisfy Eighth
Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment
"...be tried for the slayings, and Kerr Co. District Judge Stephen Ables allowed Panetti to represent himself at trial...."
July 13, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Developing Stories
Neighbors file similar suit to RG4N's
"..."It's a very ripe situation for getting a judge to interpret city ordinances and to determine whether interpretations..."
July 6, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor
Election 2006: Local Results
Democrats score a shutout in Travis and Hays
"...Court were swept from office – including Hays County Judge Jim Powers, who was first elected in 1998 –..."
Nov. 10, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
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