The Texas Center for Justice and Equity, a group dedicated to ending “mass incarceration,” has crunched the numbers for dismissals and not guilty verdicts. The results, in many crime categories, show shockingly low conviction rates for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in 2022.
– The Texas Center for Justice and Equity, a group dedicated to ending “mass incarceration,” has crunched the numbers for dismissals and not guilty verdicts.
Jay Jenkins, with TCJE, said Friday that the data comes directly from what Harris County District Courts report to the State of Texas.- 62% of nonsexual assault were not guilty/dismissal- 67.9% of crimes against children were not guilty/dismissalMurray Newman, who has not specifically examined these figures, but is the President of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association believes the Harris County DA’s office is both ineffective and inefficient.
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