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Harris County DA Candidates

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Alan Bernstein reports on the four GOP candidates visit with the Chronicle editorial board, "DA candidates view office in different ways."Republican candidates for Harris County district attorney clashed Wednesday about perceptions of racism and widespread injustice in the criminal courts, with prosecutor Kelly Siegler saying there was virtually no proof of either. Also, candidate and defense lawyer Jim Leitner said he would suspend for three months the right of prosecutors to block potential jurors because of their backgrounds or beliefs. And Siegler said that, at the risk of riling police officers, she would make their crime reports more accessible to defense attorneys before each trial. Leitner and Siegler said the new procedures would make the local justice system more balanced and transparent as the prosecutor's agency suffers from an image crisis...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).