Houston Chronicle by Gabrielle Banks Oct. 28, 2019
AG’s office, police and county officials voice concerns about bail plan at final hearingDistrict Attorney Kim Ogg has voiced serious concerns with a Harris County consent decree that will govern how pretrial release works in misdemeanor cases, but she ultimately passed up a scheduled opportunity to address the federal judge at a final hearing on the civil rights case on Monday attended by more than 100 stakeholders.
The hearing, watched by six misdemeanor judges, three commissioners court members and the sheriff and many community members, wrapped in about three hours, with the judge saying she would consider the input from the parties and about a dozen speakers and issue an order promptly.
Before the speakers began addressing the judge, Neal Manne, who is among the team of lawyers representing the county’s indigent defendants in the historic class action, said the deal solidified a policy of basic fairness toward people arrested on low level offenses.
“Harris County is going to have to get used to poor people having as much time to resolve their cases as rich people always had,†Manne said.
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