The big news this past week in the campaign for Travis County District Attorney is that there is now one candidate in the race who publicly opposes the death penalty. Rick Reed has said: “I have decided to publicly support a moratorium on the death penalty in Travis County. If I am elected District Attorney [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2008 by admin
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Texas Moratorium Network & ACLU-TX Central TX Chapter invite all interested members of the community to a PUBLIC FORUM with the CANDIDATES for TRAVIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY Monday, February 4th, 6pm at Gene’s Po Boys 1209 E. 11th St. (at the Rosewood “Y”) (parking behind building) There are four candidates* running – all in the [...]

Posted on January 25th, 2008 by admin
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Everyone should head over to The Texas Observer and read their long article on the Travis County DA race: “Replacing Ronnie Earle: The Race to Become the Most Important Prosecutor in Texas”The article focuses on the Public Integrity Unit. Rick Reed comes out in the article looking like a real fighter within the DA’s office [...]

Posted on January 18th, 2008 by admin
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Bill Aleshire, an Austin attorney and former Travis County Judge, has written a post on the Burnt Orange Report that says voters should withhold their endorsements from Travis County District Attorney Candidates who refuse to say they will not use the death penalty. This is a unique opportunity because the selection of the next District [...]

Posted on January 16th, 2008 by admin
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Jeanette Popp’s daughter Nancy DePriest was murdered in Austin in 1988. Jeanette became intimately familiar with the many flaws of the Texas criminal justice system after two innocent men, Chris Ochoa and Richard Danziger, were wrongfully convicted of her daughter’s murder and spent 12 years in prison. They were exonerated and released in 2001. The [...]

Posted on January 14th, 2008 by admin
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Jeanette Popp spoke on the plaza of the Blackwell/Thurman Criminal Justice Center in Austin on Saturday, January 12. Popp urged the candidates for Travis County District Attorney to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in Travis County by not seeking the death penalty in any capital trials and instead using life without parole as [...]

Posted on January 14th, 2008 by admin
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