StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Streaming video of this morning's Texas Senate Criminal Justice hearing on the Forensic Science Commission has been posted to the Archived Video section of the Senate website, here. Following the hearing, Senator Rodney Ellis held a news conference with Innocence...
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, said there are 742 offenders in Texas prisons in arson case so a commission study of arson forensics is important. Bradley noted that Ellis is on the board of the Innocence Project, which brought the...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The argument over the Willingham case and the Innocence Project continued between Sen. Rodney Ellis and John Bradley. "The (forensics) commission is not charged with debating the death penalty. The commission is not charged with determining whether people are guilty...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
"In short, we can ensure the people of Texas have the responsible and clean energy policies they deserve and that Texas remains at the forefront of the energy field, or we can get left behind," said state Sen. Rodney Ellis, a Democrat who traveled to Washington with state leaders this year to work with the White House on clean energy legislation. "We can't continue fossilized thinking,...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
"In short, we can ensure the people of Texas have the responsible and clean energy policies they deserve and that Texas remains at the forefront of the energy field, or we can get left behind," said state Sen. Rodney Ellis, a Democrat who traveled to Washington with state leaders this year to work with the White House on clean energy legislation. "We can't continue fossilized thinking,...
Texas Watchdog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Big thanks to KHOU 11 News for doing their own take on our state Senate travel story. Their report aired at 10 Friday night: Records show that while at a legislative conference in New York, Houston Sen. Rodney Ellis billed taxpayers for two nights at the Ritz Carlton, at a rate of $495 per night. Meanwhile, other [...]
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
You can watch streaming video of yesterday's Texas Senate Criminal Justice hearing on the Forensic Science Commission here. Following the hearing, Senator Rodney Ellis held a news conference with Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck. It's also available in streaming video,...
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... and more as his performance wore on, to the point at the end of near-open defiance toward Sen. Rodney Ellis and state Rep. Tommy Merritt, the chairman of the House Law Enforcement Committee who sat in on the hearing. In many ways, it was quite an arrogant performance - answering nothing concretely and accusing (implicitly or explicitly) anyone who disagreed with him of bias. Several...
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South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... after Hurricane Ike. Texas Watch Executive Director Alex Winslow on Tuesday joined state Sen. Rodney Ellis in calling for an investigation of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association after attorneys for some policyholders released what they assert are damning internal e-mails and documents showing policies of lowballing repair costs and denying claims. Dog Canyon has more . TWIA...
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Dave Mann covered today's Senate Criminal Justice Committee meeting and the Rodney Ellis, Barry Scheck news conference that followed. He's posted, "The Willingham Hearing," at his Texas Observer blog. Mann has written an impressive series of articles for the Observer...
Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... and more as his performance wore on, to the point at the end of near-open defiance toward Sen. Rodney Ellis and state Rep. Tommy Merritt, the chairman of the House Law Enforcement Committee who sat in on the hearing. In many ways, it was quite an arrogant performance – answering nothing concretely and accusing (implicitly or explicitly) anyone who disagreed with him of bias. Several...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... anyone willing to talk smack about the guy? – but there you have it. In the meantime, State Sen. Rodney Ellis and Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck will hold a press conference after the Whitmire hearing to give their perspective on where we stand. Click on to read their press release. Press Conference Immediately Following Senate Hearing on Forensic Science Commission Will...
Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
This morning, I attended the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing. The hearing was called, largely, to hear testimony from the new Texas Forensic Science Commission Chairman, John Bradley. Two things strike me as clear after attending the hearing: The Democrats on the Senate Criminal Justice Committee -- Chairman John Whitmire, Senator Rodney Ellis, and Senator Juan "Chuy"...
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Texas Moratorium Network (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... extension. Take elevator down to level E1. Click here to watch the press conference with Senator Rodney Ellis live Nov. 10 at approximately 10:30 a.m. CST (11:30 p.m. EST) (You will need Real Player to watch the events above online. Download it for free here ). Learn more about the Willingham case at www.camerontoddwillingham.com .
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... three children was arson.During Tuesday's meeting, Bradley tangled repeatedly with Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, chairman of the board of the Innocence Project. The project in 2006 filed a complaint with the forensics commission that launched its probe into the Willingham case, as well as that of Ernest Willis, who spent 17 years on death row before being cleared in an arson murder...
