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Praising Pat Lykos: Critics react well to transparency, humility from DAs

New Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos has been receiving praise from unlikely quarters, recently, first for changing the office policy to allow defense counsel to receive police offense reports, then for actually apologizing over an egregious mistaken ID case prosecuted by her predecessor. Rick Casey at the Houston Chronicle could scarcely believe that "She not only admitted mistakes, she used the active voice," declaring it a "new era." I'll admit, that is unusual.Like Craig Watkins in Dallas, Lykos has begun her new administration by giving the public two things I think voters were looking for when, as in Dallas, they rejected a candidate from the ancien regime: A DA who would embrace transparency and accept responsibility for mistakes as well as credit for successes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 15, 2009 (boomark / email).