AltWeeklies Wire
Playing Games with Painnew
Texas bill would ban abortion after "fetal pain"
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
04-16-2013 |
The War on Women
Your Word Is Your Bondnew
Travis County moves toward broader pretrial release of the accused. Commercial bondsmen say it will never work.
Austin Chronicle |
JORDAN SMITH |
10-17-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: bonds
Death Row Inmate Hoping for Supreme Interventionnew
The Court of Criminal Appeals last week denied a stay of execution for Robert Wayne Harris, convicted in 2000 of killing two people during a shooting spree at the Mi-T-Fine Car Wash in Irving. Unless the federal courts intervene, on Sept. 20 he'll be the eighth man executed in Texas this year.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
09-18-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Death Penalty, Death Row
APD's Sleep Disordernew
Detective Amy Lynch was a highly praised veteran officer – until she told her bosses she'd been diagnosed with narcolepsy.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
08-24-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: police, narcolepsy
Life in Prison for Hempnew
José Peña brought some roadside weeds home from Kansas. Cops decided it was reefer, and a Texas court sentenced him to life in prison – without the evidence. It took a decade for Peña to get back some of the pieces of his life.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
03-21-2012 |
Drugs
Perry the Executionernew
Texas leads the country in executions, and Rick Perry holds the record tally.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
09-16-2011 |
Policy Issues
The Science of Injusticenew
Capital murder case highlights Texas courts' resistance to physical evidence.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
08-18-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Larry Swearingen, Melissa Trotter
Proof of Nothingnew
When you were busted for public intoxication, were you drunk? Or did you just piss off a cop?
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
06-24-2011 |
Civil Liberties
A Parliament of Expertsnew
Did 'expert testimony' convict an innocent woman of murder?
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
02-08-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Rosa Jimenez, Victoria Gutierrez
Beware of Kids With Headphonesnew
Digital dosing the new gateway drug?
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
07-19-2010 |
Drugs
Medi-Pot Patient Sues Wal-Martnew
How does Wal-Mart prove that it doesn't mistreat its workers? By firing a model employee with an inoperable brain tumor after finding out he uses medi-pot, that's how.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
07-12-2010 |
Drugs
Tags: Wal-Mart, Medical Marijuana
The New Texas Family Planningnew
Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
01-30-2006 |
Sex
"Crackpot Crackdown"new
AltWeeklies Award - Drugs Reporting
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
10-27-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Breakaway Mormon Sect Builds Temple in West Texasnew
Residents of Eldorado, Texas, wonder how the practice of polygamy and allegations of criminal wrongdoing against the sect's elusive leader will affect their town.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
08-31-2005 |
Religion
