Grits stays enthusiastic about bail-reform legislation being promoted by Texas Supreme Court docket Chief Justice Nathan Hecht and Court do...
Grits stays enthusiastic about bail-reform legislation being promoted by Texas Supreme Court docket Chief Justice Nathan Hecht and Court docket of Felony Appeals Presiding Decide Sharon Keller this session, and carried on the Lege by John Whitmire (SB 1338) within the Senate and Andrew Murr (HB 3011) within the Home. These are some massive weapons geared toward a giant drawback.
The payments have been filed and at this level we're ready to seen when the laws will get a public listening to. There's nonetheless loads of time, however the clock is certainly ticking.
Creating much more urgency for legislative motion, an article from Courthouse Information makes it sound like Harris County is losing its bail litigation in opposition to civil rights advocates in federal court docket. So the state could wish to reform the system itself reasonably than look forward to a choose to declare it unconstitutional and make the modifications the way in which she prefers. This is one other story from Courthouse News describing the risk-assessment tool which might be utilized in Harris County if the plaintiffs win.
Within the final legislative session, we noticed an odd race between the Legislature and the Court docket of Felony Appeals to be the primary to outline the scope of Texas' new junk science writ. (The Legislature won.) Now we see an analogous race between the Legislature with its massive pretrial payments and a federal choose who appears exasperated these modifications have not been carried out already within the state's largest county.
Formally, these two developments are unrelated. But when laws passes, it'll let judges in Houston acquiesce within the go well with with out shedding face and maybe may assist forestall intervention into Harris County's system by the federal judiciary. Or, if the invoice fails, Decide Rosenthal would possibly be at liberty to impose her personal sense of how issues ought to work.
MORE: Go here to send your state senators an email supporting Sen. Whitmire's massive pretrial launch invoice.
The payments have been filed and at this level we're ready to seen when the laws will get a public listening to. There's nonetheless loads of time, however the clock is certainly ticking.
Creating much more urgency for legislative motion, an article from Courthouse Information makes it sound like Harris County is losing its bail litigation in opposition to civil rights advocates in federal court docket. So the state could wish to reform the system itself reasonably than look forward to a choose to declare it unconstitutional and make the modifications the way in which she prefers. This is one other story from Courthouse News describing the risk-assessment tool which might be utilized in Harris County if the plaintiffs win.
Within the final legislative session, we noticed an odd race between the Legislature and the Court docket of Felony Appeals to be the primary to outline the scope of Texas' new junk science writ. (The Legislature won.) Now we see an analogous race between the Legislature with its massive pretrial payments and a federal choose who appears exasperated these modifications have not been carried out already within the state's largest county.
Formally, these two developments are unrelated. But when laws passes, it'll let judges in Houston acquiesce within the go well with with out shedding face and maybe may assist forestall intervention into Harris County's system by the federal judiciary. Or, if the invoice fails, Decide Rosenthal would possibly be at liberty to impose her personal sense of how issues ought to work.
MORE: Go here to send your state senators an email supporting Sen. Whitmire's massive pretrial launch invoice.
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