Listed below are just a few odds and ends for readers' perusal whereas your correspondent is targeted elsewhere: Texas is moving 1,000 ...
Listed below are just a few odds and ends for readers' perusal whereas your correspondent is targeted elsewhere:
- Texas is moving 1,000 prisoners out of the Pack Unit into air conditioned services. As well as, common readers will recall, the water there is tainted with arsenic. Should not the state merely shut the unit now?
- An Austin Lady Scout troupe is centered on taking girls to visit their mothers in prison.
- Dallas Decide Rick Magnis is retiring, however the case of Ben Spencer, a person he believes was falsely convicted in his court, stays unresolved.
- When prosecutors bully protection legal professionals: San Antonio edition.
- Sanctuary cities laws causing confusion for police departments.
- Good trial lawyering has all the time been about storytelling, so Grits is much less shocked by defense lawyers adopting nonfiction narrative approaches than our mates on the prosecutors' affiliation, who tweeted that hyperlink in horror at being requested to justify the financial prices of prosecutorial selections.
- Talking of critically essential narratives which may decide the outcomes of instances, jury directions that inform jurors to seek for "fact" as a substitute of "cheap doubt" lead to larger conviction charges, a new study found.
- Within the federal system, "prison defendants who're launched pending trial earn a roughly 72 p.c lower in sentence size and a 36 percentage-point improve within the likelihood of receiving a sentence under the advisable federal sentencing Pointers vary," a recent paper found.
- Texas has been credited in recent times as an early adopter of criminal-justice reforms, however that hasn't essentially prolonged to the reentry entrance. Pew's Stateline has a good roundup of reentry-related reforms being adopted in other states that needs to be thought-about right here.
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