Friday, August 5, 2011

Birthday edition

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Today is the 3rd birthday for The Defense Rests and, once again, I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the time to read and comment ...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

A snitch in time

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Peddling books

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Over the past two weeks, John Nova Lomax at The Houston Press, has told us the incredibly bizarre tale of Denish Shah (also known as Dennis...

The sky is falling! Not.

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Last night I ran across a blog post from a criminal defense attorney in North Texas. The post was written in reaction to the Scillitani  cas...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

An artist and a scientist

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I read the other day that Ferran Adria, the father of molecular gastronomy, is closing the doors of his famed restaurant El Bulli . His work...

Book Review: False Justice

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Jim Petro is a rock-ribbed Republican who is a former Attorney General of Ohio. He is the most unlikely person to get involved in the innoce...
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Sex, lies and SEO

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Just who is Jay Smith and why is sending me spam? Hi Paul,   We just posted an article, “10 Modern Criminals Who’ve Made a Killing” , I tho...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Make way for the reverend

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Opening one's eyes

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Back in May I wrote about a case in Iran in which the court ordered the blinding of a man as punishment for his throwing acid in the face o...

A recipe for reagent stew with expired chemical

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It seems that it's always something with those folks up at the Southwest Institute of Forensics in Dallas. Our latest adventure in foren...
Monday, August 1, 2011

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

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What do you do when you're tired of the Texas Forensic Science Commission keeps sticking its nose into whether or not an innocent man, C...

A regulation by any other name isn't worth a damn

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In order for scientific evidence to be admissible in a Texas court, the party wishing to put such evidence before the court must show that (...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

DPS offers new way to request ALR hearings in Texas

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It looks like we have a new method of requesting ALR hearings to contest license suspensions in Texas. The Department of Public Safety has a...
Friday, July 29, 2011

The wreckage of the batmobile

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I've written at length about the problems with the Houston Police Department's BATmobiles and I've written about the departure ...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Attacking their own

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The Republican primary for Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Affirms Appeals should be a most interesting affair as a sitting ...

Shooting mosquitoes with a shotgun

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I had a very interesting conversation with a client the other night. We had just finished resolving a couple of traffic tickets out in Magno...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

New website to check driver license status

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If you need to check the driver's license status of yourself or a client, here's a new website from the State of Texas that will all...

The execution shall not be televised

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So what was the big brouhaha over a Georgia inmate who wanted to have his execution videotaped? We see much worse every night on cable or o...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

In Utah, no reasonable suspicion? No problem

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In order to make a valid traffic stop in Texas, a law enforcement officer must either have probable cause to arrest or reasonable suspicion ...

Doing as I say...

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Prosecutors can be a sanctimonious bunch. Not all of them, keep in mind, but more than a few. You know the ones I'm talking about. The o...
Monday, July 25, 2011

More than half of Texas students suspended or expelled

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The results of a longitudinal study that followed one million Texas seventh-graders for six years reveals that 60% of those students were s...

Covering one's backside - forensics edition

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You run a crime lab  forensics institute that specializes in assisting the state in gathering and analyzing evidence. On a logbook you see t...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Mayor Parker to voters: "Screw you!"

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In response to residents who voted to get rid of red light cameras, Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced that the cameras will being genera...

Googling our brains

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A new study indicates that the internet has changed the way we remember things. It appears that if we know we can access the information on...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Splitting hairs and denying relief

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In 1999, Neal Hampton Robbins was convicted of capital murder in the death of his girlfriend's 17-month-old child. In 2011, the Texas Co...