Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Texas, Harris County Lead Country in Exonerations and Wrongful Convictions
As of July 21, 2022, the National Registry of exonerations reports that there have been 3,184 exonerations in criminal cases since 1989. These numbers…
Official Jury Tampering in Harris and Brazoria County
Texan and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark once said , “The jury system improves the quality of justice and is the…
Bail Reform is Not the Cause of Rising Crime
The COVID 19 pandemic (“pandemic”) taught the American criminal justice system one thing: the nation’s cash bail system is a for-profit practice that has…
Reports of the Death of Criminal Justice Reform Largely Exaggerated
17-year-old high school student Trayvon Martin was murdered in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012. Seventeen months later, his killer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted.…
Police Misconduct, Abuse and Violence: A Continuing Social Disorder
The National Registry of Exonerations announced on March 15, 2022, that 33 of the 45 exonerations announced in February involved people falsely accused of…
DA Kim Ogg’s Politics of Executions
After her November 2016 election as district attorney of Harris County, Kim Ogg said she would reduce the use of the death penalty with…
Prosecutor and Detective Join to Fabricated Evidence to Execute
There has always been, and will always be, a legion of rogue criminal prosecutors who, with tunnel vision to win at all cost, kill…
Harris County DA Kim Ogg’s False Narrative
The tragic shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2015 by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, triggered nationwide protests and the eventual…
The Perils of a Traffic Stop and Injustice of Qualified Immunity
THE PERILS OF A TRAFFIC STOP The Stanford Open Policing Project (SOPR) reports that police conduct 50,000 traffic stops daily. These traffic stops result…
The Pandemic and Prison
A little more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, a picture is emerging as to the effect the pandemic has had on the…
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