Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The assembly line keeps on moving

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I caught an interesting piece on All Things Considered  this afternoon about sentencing reform . Over the last couple of decades tough-on-cr...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Stop me if you've heard this before...

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It seems that no matter how hard it tries, the Houston Police Department Crime Lab just can't keep itself out of the news. Peter Lentz w...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

Turning the other cheek

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I apologize for the brevity of this post but it's early Sunday evening and I'm sitting at my desk in an office building in which the...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Happy Fourth (or not)

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Yesterday the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association carried on a tradition born four years ago with the annual reading of the Declar...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Disgraced former DA gets new gig

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Disgraced former Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley has finally landed a new gig . He will be working in the Attorney General...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

End of the road in the World Cup

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Yesterday the dream of a World Cup trophy died for the United States with a 2-1 loss to Belgium. The US performance has been described as gu...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

My religion is more important than your health

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When the US Supreme Court released its decision in   Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. yesterday it pointed out yet another flaw in the d...
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Monday, June 30, 2014

First the plea, then the admonishments

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On Friday members of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers' Association stood outside Judge Michael Fields' courtroom handing out 3x5 c...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Thoughts on the World Cup

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Enough about the law for now. Here are a few observations about the group stage of the World Cup. Luis Suarez may very well be the best st...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

It can't possibly be his fault, can it?

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And then along comes Martin Odemena to make lawyers (or wannabe lawyers) look ridiculous again. According to this piece on the ABA Journal...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Lost in the aether

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In an effort to reduce the amount of paper that lawyers generate, the Texas Supreme Court mandated that all civil and family pleadings be fi...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Court releases Obama's drone memo

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Thanks to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, the infamous Obama administration "drone memo" is now public . The memo lays out the a...
Monday, June 23, 2014

On picking your fights

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I was in municipal court for a client fighting a traffic ticket in a Houston suburb last Thursday. The court wants defendants in the courtro...
Friday, June 20, 2014

The two faces of the World Cup

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I had to wait until my girls went to bed before I could finally sit down and watch the Uruguay-England match from the World Cup. Watching...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

First executions since Oklahoma's botched science experiment

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Right around midnight on June 18, 2014, the states of Georgia and Missouri murdered inmates with secret drug protocols . They were the firs...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The truth only makes it worse

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I have a bit of sympathy for Oklahoma prison officials trying to rationalize explain what went wrong during the botched murder of Clayton L...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

We'll let you know if it's something we think you should know about

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Exactly how does a lab analyst, at an accredited lab, record the wrong name on at least 350 lab samples? How does that same lab analyst lose...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Having your cake and eating it, too

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In 2012 Connecticut did (and didn't) abolish the death penalty. The legislature passed a bill, later signed by the governor, that abolis...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Book review: Prayers for the Stolen

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I don't generally review works of fiction on these pages but Jennifer Clement's new novel Prayers for the Stolen  deserves mention. ...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Oh what a relief it is (finally)

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Now I don't usually take to these pages with a self-congratulatory blog post after getting a positive result. That's self-serving an...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Supreme Court rules on execution in Texas

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On May 13 of this year Robert Campbell was scheduled to be murdered by the State of Texas. Just hours before a lethal dose of pentobarbital ...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The beautiful game ain't always so beautiful

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As if the rampant corruption in international soccer isn't enough to get folks to sit up and take notice of how money greases FIFA's...
Monday, June 9, 2014

World cup of corruption

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We are now just days away from the opening match of the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil. But attention has been drawn away from t...
Friday, June 6, 2014

Probably not the best time to take a lunch break

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This was the sight from the North Loop in Houston on Wednesday. That's the building my office is in. Houston Eye Associates spent a...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

One way to reduce indigent defense bill

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So you think it's hard to get a court-appointed attorney in Harris County. There are judges who will tell defendants who have been able ...
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