Subject: Vanessa Gilmore

• Human Smuggler Gets A Longer Sentence

  October 6, 2008

• Fed-up Feds

  Will the "temp" United States Attorney exile dissidents to the border?

  March 11, 1999

• "Nicest Guy On Death Row" Gets A Reprieve

  In a ruling Friday that flew under the radar until today, US District Judge Vanessa Gilmore overturned the capital-murder conviction of Mariano Rosales, because Harris County prosecutors had improperly rejected minorities from the jury pool.The technical term for the tossing-minority-jurors claim is a Batson challenge, after the 1986 case where the precedent was set.And when we saw the NAACP announcement about Gilmore's decision, our first reaction was "Man, we thought Harris County prosecutors

  December 16, 2008

• The Insider

  January 16, 1997

• The Wrong Enemies

  October 15, 1998

• "Nicest Guy" Gets Break

  Still on death row, though

  December 25, 2008

• More Payne for the IRS

  Prolonged agency abuses bring a Houston attorney $1.5 million

  March 25, 1999

• Oral Argument

  The duel of the tongue vibrators

  April 8, 2004

• Georgia on My Mind

  Rice Village heads in a new direction -- of sorts

  October 9, 2003

• Under The Volcano

  Crown Central Petroleum spews, sputters and flares up. Neighbors of the plant view it uneasily, never quite sure when it's going to blow.

  February 14, 2002

• Judicial Show and Tell

  Senators Gramm and Hutchinson dig deep into applicants' political pasts

  June 28, 2001

• Static

  January 9, 1997