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December 3, 2008
A Very, Very Rare Purge Begins At The DA's Office
It was an odd mix of feelings around the tables at Char Bar last night, as the prosecutors who had just been given their pink slips from incoming DA Pat Lykos gathered to meet with sympathizers.No one wants to lose a job in this economy, of course; on the other hand, some had been vocal supporters o ... More >>
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December 8, 2008
She's Got Legs, She Knows How To Prosecute `Em
Murray Newman has been anonymously writing an entertaining blog about being a prosecutor in Harris County; now that he's been canned (he supported incoming DA Pat Lykos' primary opponent), it's clear that a) the blogging will continue, and b) it will still be entertaining.Witness his latest scoop: L ... More >>
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March 31, 2009
Not Everyone Is Cheering DA Pat Lykos's Latest Move
Photo courtesy Pat Lykos for DAIf you look up "throwing someone under the bus" in the dictionary of clichés, you might just find the following example from Pat Lykos's braver, newer Harris County District Attorneys Office used as illustration. Not content to keep her ire in-house about a recent jur ... More >>
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January 29, 2009
A Digital Bathroom Wall for Pat Lykos
Disgruntled prosecutors scribble their complaints about the new boss on a blog
Blogs
May 13, 2009
Chronicle's Political Writer Takes A Job With The Sheriff
Alan Bernstein, the longtime political reporter for the Houston Chronicle, is quitting the paper to join the staff of Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia.Bernstein ends his 29 years at the Chron Friday and starts with Garcia at the end of the month."I got an unsolicited job offer and I investigated ... More >>
News
May 21, 2009
Two Houston newsmen take different paths
Plus: Our very own Will Hunting
News
February 4, 2010
Crash Reports
Running a red light and killing someone does not automatically mean you're in trouble in Harris County.
Blogs
April 2, 2010
Docket Call At The Criminal Courthouse: Double Whammy Nightmare
Photo by Paul KennedyThe daily docket-call clusterfuck at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center is an old story. It's been pretty bad ever since the new building opened, but some attorneys are saying that the situation is now worse than ever. It's actually not one but two clusterfucks. The f ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Jason Bourque and Daniel McAllister: East Texas Church Arsonists Sentenced to Life
Courtesy Smith County SO Daniel George McAllister and Jason Robert BourqueThe crimes that East Texans Jason Robert Bourque and Daniel George McAllister were convicted of last month were disgusting indeed. The two young men, sometimes working together and other times apart, admitted to torchin ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Judge Kevin Fine Tosses Out Jury's Murder Conviction and His Sentence
Judge Kevin Fine is in the news again.You can't say that state district judge Kevin Fine doesn't know how to grab attention. Elected in the 2008 Democratic wave, the tattooed former drug addict has issued such pronouncements as doubting a woman was raped because she was on top at the time, n ... More >>