Skip navigation

Search

2064 results
Page 101 of 104. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 | Next »

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Houston - Death Penalty Capital of USA by Dan Pens In one week this September, six separate capital murder cases were being tried in Harris County, Texas, of which Houston is the main city. Some legal observers consider this to be a national record. "They may have done this in …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Fast Food Style Death Penalty Defense by Harris County, Texas, which encompasses Houston, is the death-penalty capital of the U.S. [See: Houston, Death Penalty Capital of USA on page 15 of this issue]. What better place for a lawyer to develop and market the same techniques that made fast food …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
Overcrowding Leads to Pneumonia by On September 8, 1994, the New England Journal of Medicine published the report of an investigation conducted by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into the outbreak of a deadly form of pneumonia in the Harris County (Houston) jail in Texas in …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Name Change Statute Upheld by Kevin Mathews is a Texas state prisoner who filed suit under § 1983 challenging the constitutionality of § 32.22 of the Texas Family Code. The statute in question prohibits convicted felons from changing their names unless the person has been discharged from parole or probation, …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Disciplinary Guilty Plea No Waiver to Suit by Joe Reeves is a Texas state prisoner. He was infracted for placing his food tray outside his cell in the segregation unit. A prison rule required that food trays remain inside prisoner's cells until collected by guards. Reeves had received no notice …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Administrative Exhaustion May Be Required by Leopold Pedraza is a Texas state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming prison officials harassed him because of his race, national origin and prior litigation. At no time did Pedraza file grievances or complaints with prison officials concerning his allegations. A magistrate …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Texas Prison Reform Suit May Reopen by Tim Queen In 1972, a Texas state prisoner, David Ruiz, filed a lawsuit in Federal Court alleging many conditions in the Texas prison system violated the constitutional rights of those incarcerated. The suit was consolidated with other Texas prisoners' complaints and certified as …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Lockdown May Be Unconstitutional by Danny Eason is a Texas state prisoner. After two disturbances, in which he was not involved, the prison he was housed in was locked down for a total of 25 days. He claimed that during this period he was denied access to the prison law …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Wolff Hearing Required Before Detainees Punished by Ernest Walker is a pretrial detainee at the Navarro County Jail in Corsicana, Texas. Walker asked a jail guard to open his cell door so he could get some chips to eat. The guard refused and claimed Walker called him an obscene name. …
BOP Suits Require Administrative Exhaustion by John Rourke is a federal prisoner. He filed suit seeking injunctive relief alleging that prison officials had denied him medical care and arbitrarily imposed disciplinary sanctions against him. The district court dismissed the suit without prejudice as frivolous, before service on the defendants, holding …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
5th Cir. Guts Legal Mail Standard by Van Lee Brewer and Claude Harris are Texas state prisoners. They filed suit under § 1983 claiming that prison officials had opened and read their incoming legal mail from the courts, attorneys and government officials outside their presence. They also claimed their outgoing …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Qualified Immunity Law Clarified by Joseph Rankin was a pretrial detainee in the Harris County, Texas, jail. While awaiting a court appearance in a large holding cell a disturbance broke out after female prisoners passed in front of the cell. A deputy sheriff removed Rankin from the cell and, according …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
Threat States 8th Amendment Claim by Lloyd Smith is a Texas state prisoner. While working in the prison kitchen Smith witnessed a prison guard, Raymond Aldingers, order another prisoner to hold out his hand, which Aldingers then proceeded to cut open with a kitchen knife. Aldingers then turned to Smith …
Cop's Perjury Conviction Upheld by Normally PLN does not report on criminal cases but we thought this one might interest our readers. R.B. Springer was a Houston policeman. A Texas grand jury questioned him about numerous complaints of brutality and choking of prisoners and suspects. Springer denied any knowledge or …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Due Process Required Before Hole Time by Acounty jail prisoner in Lubbock, Texas, filed a civil rights complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against his captors. He alleged jailers violated his right to due process by placing him in lockdown without a hearing. The prisoner's crime was to ignore …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Documents Filed When Delivered to Prison Officials by In two separate cases from the fifth and eleventh circuits, the appeals courts have adopted the Supreme Court's ruling that documents are considered filed in court when they are delivered to prison officials for mailing by pro se prisoner litigants. Lawrence Thompson …
Elements of Jail RICO Suit Explained by Billy Joe Ashe is a Montgomery County, Texas, prisoner. He filed suit claiming that in retaliation for filing suit against members of the Sheriff's Department he and his co-plaintiff, and their prisoner witnesses, were subjected to a frightening pattern of physical violence and …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Sanctions Against Pro Se Litigant Reversed by Raymundo Mendoza is a Texas state prisoner. In 1980 he suffered cervical and spinal injuries in a prison accident. He filed suit and his claims were eventually dismissed. In 1991 he filed suit alleging that he had received negligent medical treatment; been denied …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Texas Proposes to Build State "Jails" by Texas Proposes to Build State "Jails" After decades of costly prison reform litigation under the Ruiz decree the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) continues to have serious problems of overcrowding. Overcrowding of state prisons has reduced the TDCJ's ability to receive new …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Texas Studies Housing Prisoners in Foreign Countries by F Lee Weiss by F. Lee Weiss The Texas Senate approved a measure calling for a study to investigate the desirability of housing state inmates in foreign countries. State Senator John Leedom, a Republican from Dallas, said that his proposal could save …
Page 101 of 104. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 | Next »