Showing posts with label No Refusal Weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label No Refusal Weekend. Show all posts
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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Monday, March 3, 2014

Let's play cowboys and vampires

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March is a busy time in the Houston area. First there's the Livestock Show and Rodeo that opened this past weekend with the World Champi...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Passing along the costs of blood testing

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As if the costs associated with a DWI arrest aren't high enough, prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney's Office are ...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Time for the annual crackdown on the Fourth Amendment

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Once again it's that time of year when law enforcement agencies get together to celebrate the demise of the Fourth Amendment and crack ...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Swearing on the telephone

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A few days ago Scott Greenfield over at Simple Justice   picked up on a piece written by Walter Olson decrying the use of a judge's gave...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

'Tis the season to give

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If you're planning on drinking and driving over the holidays, you might seriously think twice. More and more counties will be conducing ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Blood or breath?

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Is a blood test more accurate than a breath test? Is either one reliable when it comes to proving whether a motorist had an alcohol concentr...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Search warrants for dummies

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Maybe it's because they're lazy. Maybe it's because they can't be trusted to do it right by themselves. Whatever the reason ...
Friday, October 7, 2011

The volunteer army

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From: Bill Reed Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:31 AM To: Criss, Susan Subject: FW: Needing volunteers for Galveston County "No-Refus...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Filling in the blanks

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June 25, 2008   "The Galveston County Criminal District Attorney's Office is coordinating another no-refusal weekend for Friday ...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Should I bring a pen along?

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Last August I wrote about documents I received through an open records request for documents related to No Refusal Weekends in Harris County...
Friday, August 26, 2011

It's all about that filthy lucre

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If you ever had any questions about how much of a moneymaker DWI is, this article should put them to bed. A lawsuit has been filed in feder...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

It's only coercive if I say it's coercive

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co·erce   [ koh- urs ] –verb   (used   with   object),   -erced,   -erc·ing. 1. to   compel   by   force,   intimidation,   or   authority, ...
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...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Mourning the loss of the Fourth Amendment

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Mr. Alex Kozinksi, the chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and his law clerk, Stephanie Grace, penned an article on Axis of Lo...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Highway fatality rates drop to lowest level since 1949

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With state after state ramping up DWI enforcement and dreaming up new ways to violate motorists' rights comes news that the rate of traf...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Maybe their faces will turn up on milk cartons

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Neutral and detached magistrates are looking more and more like an endangered species -- particularly in Missouri, according to this piece ...