Saturday, January 31, 2009

Turning up the heat

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Life has now gotten tougher for disgraced former technical supervisor Dee Wallace as a Harris County grand jury has returned an indictment ...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Welcome to Theatre of the Absurd

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Should you be placed on probation for a violent crime such as rape, murder, burglary or any other crime in which a gun was displayed, feel f...
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Police attempt to manipulate study on red-light cameras

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It turns out that the Houston Police Department tried to count accidents at camera-enforced intersections differently in order to skew the ...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

The wisdom of Coach Royal

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For those of y'all who grew up watching the Longhorns in the 60's and 70's, you need no introduction to Darrell K. Royal.  Coach...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Coach charged in death of football player

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Mr. David Stinson, head coach for the Pleasure Ridge Park H.S. football team, was charged this past Thursday for reckless homicide in the de...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Crowded house

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Harris County officials seem to have finally seen the writing on the wall regarding jail overcrowding . With the inmate population of the Ha...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Always expect the unexpected

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This morning while running from my house down to 610 and Memorial I saw a male peacock strutting in someone's driveway near Memorial and...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Survivorman and the art of trial lawyering

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Last night my littlest one fell asleep while we were watching Survivorman . While Les Stroud was struggling to survive a week on the northe...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Would you like a pound of flesh with that?

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By now we all know the tragic story of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback  Michael Vick .  Now comes news that as Mr. Vick is coming toward ...

A little professional courtesy?

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State District Judge Elizabeth Berry scored a victory in Johnson County (Texas), when the trial court ruled that blood samples taken after ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Oops, there I go again...

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From KEYE-TV in Austin, we have the story of a Williamson County (Texas) Sheriff's detective who was popped for his second DWI over the...

Ripping a new one

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Typically when a prosecutor dismisses a case in Harris County he marks "Other" on the standard Motion to Dismiss and, under explan...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

A new day for America

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At 11:00 a.m. I was in the court reporter's office for Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 10 with the court reporter, two other def...

The crimininalization of bad choices

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I came across this  blog posting  on Twitter one day and it made me think. One of the cornerstones of our criminal justice system is the pre...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Tips on jury selection

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Apparently  the San Francisco Public Defender's Office doesn't want Asians on its jurie s.  A former intern in the office  blogged a...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Blowing while intoxicated

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According to the  Texas DWI statute , a citizen must be intoxicated at the time of driving in order to be convicted of driving while intoxic...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

A voice of reason

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Finally, a voice of reason in the neverending war against drugs.   Judge Michael McSpadden, who presides over the 209th Judicial District Co...

Mo' news is bad news for Judge Kent

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More bad news for embattled federal Judge Samuel Kent - the judicial council of the 5th Circuit announced it will  reopen its investigation ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

What exclusionary rule?

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In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that our 4th Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure is now subject to a...

5th Circuit overturns murder conviction

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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the murder conviction of Jonathan Bruce Reed, who has sat on Texas' death row for almost 30...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Think twice before you plead

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For those of you who doubt the serious consequences a DWI conviction can have,  here comes the story , courtesy of the ABA Journal, of a new...

Who's on first?

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Last week I commented on the refusals of prosecutors to hand over copies of offense reports to defense attorneys. Here's an article fr...
Monday, January 12, 2009

DWI v. DUI

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In Texas you commit the offense of driving while intoxicated if, while operating a motor vehicle in a public place, you have either: (1) lo...
Sunday, January 11, 2009

To try or not to try

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In just the past couple of days I have read blog posts from my colleagues, Mark Bennett of Houston and Brian Tannebaum of Miami, about the...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Another little white lie?

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During her campaign for Harris County District Attorney, former judge Pat Lykos promised that her office would make copies of offense repor...
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