Showing posts with label 5th Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 5th Amendment. Show all posts
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Wanting that second bite at the apple

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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except...
Monday, January 8, 2018

What will Cliven Bundy do next?

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On December 23, I wrote about the dismissal of the cases against Cliven Bundy and his band of Angry White Men with Guns . Today US Distric...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

You couldn't screw it up this bad if you tried (or could you?)

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I have very mixed emotions about the dumpster fire that has become the Cliven Bundy trial. This week, US District Judge Gloria Navarro decla...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Yet another reason why it sucks to be poor

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Nowhere in the warning does it say that the government could come and ask you to pay for your appointed lawyer's services. Kelly Un...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Getting around the Fifth

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On Tuesday the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that Baltimore police officer William Porter would have to testify at the trial of five other...
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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...
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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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Empty threats

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On Monday while I was sitting in the 174th District Court in Harris County a colleague and I were discussing some legal matters involving th...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Trusting blindly and swallowing whole

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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except...
Monday, June 24, 2013

You have the right to have your silence used against you

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It's not an unusual occurrence for a potential client charged with driving while intoxicated to tell me during the initial interview to ...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Bennett for Court of Criminal Appeals

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If there was ever a place that needed a proponent of limited government it is the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. In no other area is the n...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

Listening in

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While Harris County is looking to install video conferencing in the jail and promising that the integrity of the attorney-client relationshi...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

You're not under arrest unless I tell you you're under arrest

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cus·to·dy noun   \ ˈ kəs-tə-dē\ plural   cus·to·dies Definition of  CUSTODY :  immediate charge and control (as over ...
Friday, December 16, 2011

I'll have a fifth, please

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On Thursday morning, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Rachel Palmer appeared before a grand jury looking into the troubled HPD mob...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Shhh! It's a secret

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Naturally the very existence of the document is a national security secret (or at least a pinkie-swear secret) - but what you expect when t...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Death without due process

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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Celebrating the Fourth (of July) by gutting the Fourth (Amendment)

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rig...
Monday, June 20, 2011

The slow drip of tyranny

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I came across the following message on one of the listservs I frequent the other day: When did we as a society decide it was ok for the gov...
Friday, June 3, 2011

A legal fiction

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Texas courts like to maintain this legal fiction that license suspensions following a breath test refusal or failure are just civil matters....
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Reciprocal discovery would only harm defendants

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Wouldn't it be great to have a laundry list of items that the state is required to produce prior to trial? No more drafting discovery...
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