Point Austin: The Machinery of Death

Supreme Court quibbles about drugs and avoids the larger ethical issue

"...is in fact mentioned in the Constitution (in the Fifth Amendment requirement of due process)...."

July 10, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

"...Texas Civil Rights Project claims the policy violates his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself and his 14th..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature

Hunting Cybersex

What Fourth Amendment?

"...enough there is no 'fair probability.' So is the Fifth Circuit saying that 33% is fair probability?" he asks...."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Yogurt-Shop Murders Update

District Judge remands Robert Springsteen to Travis Co., where he'll remain in jail until retrial for murder in connection with infamous yogurt-shop killings

"...opinion) that the trial court improperly violated Springsteen's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him by allowing portions..."

June 22, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Raich Still Fighting for Medi-Pot Rights

Medical marijuana patient - not to mention its fiercest advocate - Angel Raich, back in federal court

"...appeals court that the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Ninth Amendment's granting to the people those..."

April 14, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

King Probe May Soon Go On

"...union, which says the S.O.P.s were in fact an amendment to the union contract and thus required APA approval...."

April 4, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Pierce Freed After Three Years: "Godspeed"

The DA drops charges against Maurice Pierce for the yogurt shop murders.

"...to testify against Pierce, because it would violate their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination; and prosecutors also couldn't use..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Sophia King: What Happens Now?

The city, APD, and police union haggle over what kind of "independent" review will be made of the King shooting.

"...argued that making such statements public would violate cops' Fifth Amendment rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court has supported..."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Cowboys & Critters

Take Back Texas' Marshall Kuykendall Says It's Simply a Choice Between...

"..."Why do people fight so hard for the First Amendment [right to free speech]? Why not the Fifth Amendment..."

Jan. 26, 1996 News Feature by Audrey Duff

At Reed Hearing, Fennell Breaks Silence, Says "They're All Liars"

Victim's fiancé long suspected in 1996 killing, denies all guilt

"...decade in prison. He was expected to invoke his Fifth Amend­ment right against self-incrimination at the hearing, as he..."

July 30, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Can Rodney Reed Be Freed?

New testimony rivets court as 1996 murder case reopens

"...to discredit his testimony and threatened to take the Fifth, prompting a hasty recess. When the hearing resumed, prosecutors..."

July 23, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Crutsinger Seeks Last-Ditch SCOTUS Appeal

Following the Aug. 21 execution of Larry Swearingen, Crutsinger could be the fifth Texan killed this year

"...his appointment by the trial court violated Crutsinger's 14th Amendment rights. Brandt asserts that Alley had a "substantial history..."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Paxton: Whose Due Process?

A.G. files amicus brief against undocumented pregnant minors

"...Court should begin with a threshold question: Do the Fifth Amendment's substantive due process guarantees apply to unlawfully-present aliens..."

Jan. 19, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

News Roundup: Schools, Fair(?) Housing, and Plastic

TEA releases rankings, Linda Curtis returns, and more

"...draft report on "Impediments to Fair Housing," and the Fifth Circuit takes on free speech in advertising...."

Dec. 29, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

Naked City

The court also upholds laws requiring you to give your name to police

"...two dissents, Justice John Paul Stevens opined that "the Fifth Amendment's guarantee [against self-incrimination] ... does not admit even..."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Point Austin: Ken Paxton’s Top 10 Follies This Year

How was Ken’s year? Just impeachy.

"...outside the Senate, but reportedly would have cited the Fifth Amendment in declining to testify...."

Dec. 14, 2023 News Post by Michael King

What’s a Grand Jury, and Is It Being Manipulated to Indict Police Officers?

More cops are being indicted, but why all the secrecy?

"...asked a question that it could be waiving their Fifth Amendment privileges to answer."..."

June 24, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Painful Splits Along the Way to Stopping Sexual Assault in and Around Austin

Different approaches to accountability lead to rifts throughout the county

"...treatment of these women, and violated their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights...."

March 15, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Federal Judge Hears Oral Arguments in Sexual Assault Class Action

Yeakel to consider motions to dismiss before issuing scheduling order

"...the suit’s allegations that they violated survivors’ Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by not testing their forensic exam kits..."

Dec. 17, 2018 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Rodney Reed Hearing Gets Underway

What was Jimmy Fennell doing before his fiancé's murder?

"...by his attorneys that he plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment whenever he’s called to testify. Davis first took..."

Oct. 11, 2017 News Post by Sarah Marloff

The Common Law

Hurricane Harvey – common legal questions

"...U.S. Supreme Court in a flooding case, the Constitution's Fifth Amendment is "designed to bar Government from forcing some..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Column by Luke Ellis

News Roundup: Water Flows Downhill

WTP 4 opens, ACLU sues Obama, and Brown awaits his fate

"...that the policy violates both federal law and the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits blanket detention. Asylum-seeking mothers and children..."

Dec. 22, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

Court Rules on Marriage Equality

DOMA struck down, Prop 8 dismissed on standing

"...others, the federal statute is in violation of the Fifth Amendment.”..."

June 26, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Early Disinterest

In-person turnout for constitutional amendment elections plummets from prior years

"...and mail-in early voting in the Nov. 3 Constitutional Amendment Election are in for Travis County, and it makes..."

Oct. 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Planview Peanut Plant Ordered Shut

State health inspectors have ordered shut a PCA subsidiary in the panhandle

"...home. For real. Not surprisingly, Parnell repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right when questioned by Congress earlier this week...."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Bloodthirsty Chief of Bat City

Don't drink and drive: APD's Art Acevedo is out for blood on Halloween

"...that the blood test did not violate an individual's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination – which is what police..."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Toke 'Em If You Got 'Em: Pot Prohibition Turns 70 ... and Pot Arrests Keep Adding Up

That’s right, 70 years ago this week, the federal Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 took effect, giving life to the federal pot prohibition we’ve all come to know and love.

"...which ruled in 1969 that the Act violated the Fifth Amendment), prohibition is alive and well, codified in the..."

Oct. 2, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

Teacher Found Guilty of Injuring Child

Jurors find teacher at Hyde Park Baptist Church's day-care center intentionally injured at least one young child in her care

"...describing Parker's fall to the court, Lowry invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions from the plaintiffs'..."

May 11, 2007 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Ninth Circuit Rules Against Raich

"...life, protected by the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment...."

March 23, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

Judge: Let's Bust Bradley's Trust

Bankruptcy ruling opens up developer's assets to creditors

"...opinion notes that one witness' repeated use of the Fifth Amendment "supports the conclusion that backdating documents was the..."

Nov. 5, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

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