Showing posts with label trial tactics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trial tactics. Show all posts
Friday, November 16, 2018

Walking that fine line

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On the day after Christmas in 2009, Albert James Turner went to the home of his in-laws in Fort Bend County and killed his wife and mother-i...
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Friday, January 19, 2018

Can acting in a client's best interest violate the 14th Amendment?

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On Wednesday the US Supreme Court heard a case out of Louisiana that raised the question of whether or not a lawyer can tell a jury his clie...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Bigfoot and jurors

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One of my guilty pleasures is watching Finding Bigfoot on Sunday nights. If you haven't seen the show it's about four bigfoot "...
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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...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

To bust or not to bust the panel

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Today I have a question on tactics. I think I made the right choice the other day but, despite my best efforts, I keep questioning my decisi...
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Monday, April 1, 2013

Drawing a line

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Adam Poole, a member of what we call the prosecution function, took issue the other day with my post regarding jury selection in my speeding...
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Friday, March 29, 2013

My house, my rules

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The other day out in one of the small towns on the Petroleum Highway (SH 225), I had a client who drove trucks for a living who had gotten a...
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Friday, March 8, 2013

Anyone interested in testifying?

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All I can say is "Thank God for New York." Texas may be known as the Killing Fields for the number of inmates we murder year in an...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Assuming that was his real purpose

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The other day I was in county court handling a client's DWI case. The judge was calling the trial docket and trying to figure out if any...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Picking and choosing

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"Yes, my witness was charged with forgery when she was nineteen years old. She pled guilty and was placed on probation. She did her ti...
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Friday, September 7, 2012

It all adds up to what?

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Back when I was in school we spent quite a bit of time drilling our multiplication tables. We learned long division. There were no calculato...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

A not so open-and-shut case

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The other day I was down in the little town of Rosenberg to try a speeding case for a truck-driving client of mine. It seems he was clocked ...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Causation or correlation?

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So here I am heading home from the office the other day listening to All Things Considered  on the radio and there's this story about Ke...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Just whose interest do you represent?

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Joe Amendola said he would "die of a heart attack" if Jerry Sandusky, 68, was found not guilty of 48 counts of abusing 10 boys ov...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

An economy of words

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"No one on this planet, much less in Harris County, should be convicted of a felony, with as weak as the evidence is in this case. ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Proving a negative

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In a comment to a recent post (" A little shifting of the burden "), Adam Poole referenced a provision of the Texas Code of Crimin...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

A little shifting of the burden

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My topic today is nothing new. I've written about it before - and I'm sure I will continue to write about it. Of course we're ta...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

What else could have gone wrong?

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Yes, Ronald Ray, the state does bear the burden of proving your client guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. You are correct, sir, in your ass...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Excuse me while I extract my foot from my mouth

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What on earth was Joe Amendola thinking ? Why would he consent to having his client, Jerry Sandusky, be interviewed by Bob Costas on NBC? ...
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Monday, November 7, 2011

A master and his craft

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The other day I was stuck in the Harris County Criminal (In)justice Center a bit longer than anticipated. There was a trial going on in the ...
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