Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Watkins v. State: Disclosure in Criminal Discovery is Now the Rule in Texas, Non-Disclosure the Exception
Pretrial discovery in criminal cases in Texas is governed by Article 39.14 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. The Texas Legislature enacted the…
Chauvin Verdict is Rare Step Towards Accountability
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd both intentionally and negligently on May 25, 2020, so said the jury. The jury’s verdict…
Lying Cops: More Than Just a Few Bad Apples
Most opponents of “police reform” use the tattered and by now the thoroughly discredited argument that police misconduct is the byproduct of “just a…
Racial Profiling in Texas Law Enforcement
Racial discrimination in policy and policing has been a consistent problem in Texas since its inception. In a nod to this historical reality, Texas…
Texas Bail Reform: An Unending Clash Between Wealth and Poverty
There has always been a stark contrast between the quality of justice dispensed by the American criminal justice between wealth and poverty. The bottom…
Failure to Enact George Floyd Police Reforms is Deadly
The Texas Legislature has a significant piece of legislation pending before it calling for meaningful police reform. The failure to address the merits of…
The Great Writ Does Not Recognize Risk of Covid-19
The COVID virus has devastated American jails and prisons. By the end of 2020, one in every five inmates in the country had tested…
Police Adultification Bias Against Black Girls
Imagine your nine-year-old daughter handcuffed in the back seat of a police car. Now imagine she was having a mental crisis and was pepper-sprayed…
Time to Pass Police Reform in Texas, George Floyd Act
On May 25, 2020, as the nation was coming to grips with the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a cellphone video emerged documenting Minneapolis police officer…
The Face of Police Misconduct
On December 22, 2020, a 19-year white veteran of the Columbus Police Department—44-year-old Adam Coy— shot and killed a 47-year-old African-American man named Andre’…
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