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In September of 2015 Harris County DA Devon Anderson and Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan filed a petition to ban 92 Black men from the "Southlawn Safety Zone," a two-mile area in south Houston. [8] The area has struggled with safety challenges for many years, and police blame gangs for much of the violent activity.
As District Attorney, she was the top law enforcement official responsible for overseeing all prosecutions in Harris County. Before being elected District Attorney, she was a Chief Prosecutor under former District Attorney John B. Holmes Jr., the City of Houston ’s first appointed Anti-Gang Task Force Director, and the executive director of ...
He served as Harris County assistant district attorney under Carol Vance starting in March 1977. [3] After his predecessor, Johnny Holmes, retired, Rosenthal was elected Harris County District Attorney after facing Pat Lykos, County Attorney Michael Stafford and many others in the Republican primary. He was re-elected in 2004. [3]
The SDTX, headquartered in Houston, has branch offices in Galveston, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, McAllen, Laredo and Victoria to staff all seven divisions. The office employs approximately 200 assistant U.S. attorneys. [4] The jurisdiction of the Southern District of Texas is divided as follows:
District attorneys in Alaska are based on the locations of district courts. Some districts share district attorneys, however. Some districts share district attorneys, however. Alaskan district attorneys are appointed by the Alaska Attorney General , currently Treg Taylor .
Carol S. Vance was a former district attorney of Harris County (Houston), Texas, who served in that office from 1966 to 1979, and a former board member of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, which governs the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Vance was born in 1933. For a period Vance was a resident of the Westbury area of Houston. [1]
According to CBS affiliate KHOU-TV, the Houston Police Department and other agencies have permission from the DA's office to destroy any drug evidence from cleared cases before 2015.
Judge Amos Morrill served in the Eastern District of Texas from 1872 to 1884. He was succeeded by Chauncy B. Sabin (1884 to 1890) and David E. Bryant (1890 to 1902). In 1902, when the Southern District was created by Act of Congress, Judge Bryant continued to serve in the Eastern District of Texas.