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...were running out of options, Smith told us there was one more avenue to try. Bexar County - where San Antonio is located and an estimated 30% of people under 65 do not have health coverage - has a health-care program for the uninsured that is far more generous than most in Texas and practically unique in the country. Rather than continuing to wait for the uninsured to show up in its emergency rooms, in 1997 the Bexar County hospital district established a system called CareLink for those who make 200% of the poverty line or less. (In his current...
Here are just a couple of tales from the rough frontier of Texas justice: a teenager in Bexar County charged with drug crimes last September sat in jail for a month before his first scheduled meeting with a court-appointed lawyer. That attorney never showed up; and by the time the boy met the next one, he'd been behind bars more than three months. Andrew Cantu of Abilene was executed in February even though his third court-assigned appellate lawyer--the first two withdrew--didn't know how to find Cantu in prison, didn't do any investigation...
LAMAR SMITH (R) District 21 (South Central--western Bexar County; Austin suburbs...
BORN: Nov. 19, 1947, San Antonio EDUCATION: Yale, B.A. 1969; Southern Methodist U, J.D. 1975 FAMILY: Wife, Elizabeth Lynn Schaefer; two children RELIGION: Christian Scientist MILITARY SERVICE: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer; rancher POLITICAL CAREER: Texas House, 1981-82; Bexar County Commissioner's Court, 1983-85; U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 6155, San Antonio...
...judges are still willing to commit whatever resources are necessary, even in blockbuster cases. The trial in which Texas Nurse Genene Jones was recently convicted of murdering a baby in a clinic where she worked cost Kerr County a big part of its annual court budget. But in nearby Bexar County, District Attorney Sam Millsap is gearing up to prosecute her again for injecting a second baby with a life-threatening drug. "Someone tried to kill a child, and justice demands that that person be tried," he says. Like many, he refuses to apply only an accountant's yardstick...