Amber Guyger was convicted of murder after shooting Botham Jean, an unarmed black man. Guyger thought she was in her own apartment when she returned home, and that Botham Jean had broken into her apartment. She was sentenced to ten years in prison instead of the maximum 28. The brother of the murder victim embraced…
Harris County judge For over a decade, the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct has refused to cooperate with the state in a routine process for assessing the effectiveness of state agencies. Lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year requiring the agency to be more transparent, but Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed the measure, insisting that the…
Montgomery County, 10/7/2019 There seem to be no bounds to the level of equivocation to which Eric Yollick will descend in his mission to make Montgomery County Courthouse Great Again. Yollick is tipped to be vying for election or appointment to the bench of the newly minted 457th Judicial District Court if either of those…
home Tea Party Economist How to Get Justice Back into the Cri . . . The criminal justice system in America really is criminal. There are multiple reasons for this. The main reason for it is that it substitutes incarceration for restitution. In California, it costs something in the range of $60,000 a year to…
An unlikely turn of events, the so called RESIDENT ADVOCATES fighting for and losing in their objective of raising taxes. And, according to the report arguing for compromise! After seven different failed attempts spread over two meetings in one week, The Woodlands Township Board of Directors begrudgingly approved the 2020 property tax rate, lowering the…
