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2,383 and counting ... how many new felonies from the 72nd Texas Legislature?

Regular readers will recall that the 81st Legislature created 59 new felonies in 2009, according to the Parole Board's biennial "Offense Severity List," bringing the total number of separate felonious acts identified in Texas criminal law to 2,383. This comment string from an Atlantic Monthly blog reminded me of that fact and made me wonder, how many new felonies do you think Texas will create in 2011? Leave your guesses in the comments. Also let me know what if any new oyster-related felonies might be created. Currently Texas is at 11, and counting. 2,383 is already a large number of felonies. (I've quipped before that "When God sat down to author His list of forbidden acts ... he could only come up with ten.") You'd think at some point the Lege would run out of things to criminalize, but not a chance...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 18, 2010 (boomark / email).