Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Am I missing something?

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Back at the beginning of March, the Harris County District Attorney's Office introduced a new policy regarding the release of offense re...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

A poker lesson from Texas Dolly

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Doyle Brunson is one of the most legendary poker players around. Texas Dolly won back-to-back World Series of Poker Main Events holding a ...
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What we can learn from Bernie Madoff

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I saw an interesting post on the Crime & Federalism  blog today (thanks to Rita Handrich, Ph.D. - you can find more tidbits from Ms. Han...
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Is being horny a medical disability?

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For the second time in less than a year, the Texas Department of Public Safety is looking for a new director after interim director Col. Sta...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Are you sure it wasn't Deputy Fife?

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Here's a great idea. If your neighbor has, say, a basketball hoop in her driveway and you're sick and tired of hearing that damn bal...
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Sunday, May 3, 2009

The honey hole

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If you believe that the Houston Police Department issues speeding tickets in order to make the roads in the Bayou City safer, you're in...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Judge rules Charles Hood's appeal may go forward

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The long-twisted saga of Charles Hood continues on in North Texas. Yesterday State District Judge Greg Brewer ruled that Hood's claim o...

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

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There are some things you just can't make up. In Houston today, a fire broke out in the HPD Crime Lab . Speculation is the "product...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Minnesota court affirms access to computer source code

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The Minnesota State Supreme Court ruled yesterday  (read the opinion here) that a person accused of driving while intoxicated is entitled t...

I think I'd rather be elsewhere at the moment

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So you don't feel like jury duty? Mr. Erik Slye of Gallatin County, Montana didn't and here's what he wrote in his request to be...
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The law of unintended consequences

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Is it possible that the latest pandemic causing otherwise sane people to spin off the deep end in panic is the unintended consequence of the...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Statistical reasoning

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I came across an interesting article in Cognitive Daily  this afternoon about reasoning with statistics. The article described three studies...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Some enlightened thinking on the swine flu pandemic

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As the World Health Organization prepares to issue a warning about a possible global outbreak of swine flu , a Houston city councilwoman, up...

More from Survivorman

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While watching Survivorman  the other day I caught a few more words of wisdom from Les Stroud: sometimes the best thing you can do when lost...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Officers administer field sobriety tests incorrectly 97% of the time

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Recently Lance Platt , a certified NHTSA SFST practitioner, instructor and trainer, published a paper in the DWI Journal: Law & Science ...

Open for business

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These are the conditions that the people "running" the Harris County Criminal (In)justice Center thought people should brave in or...

Springtime in Houston

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I woke up this morning to the sounds of a thunderstorm that had been parked over the city for some 12 hours. Realizing I wasn't going ou...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Flying by the seat of your pants

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I saw a fascinating show on the Discovery Channel last night about the US Airways jet that crash-landed in the Hudson River . There was audi...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Same song, different verse

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Stop me if this sounds all-to familiar... a man, after spending decades in prison, based on forensic evidence examined and evaluated by the ...

More on the truth (or lack thereof)

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The court reporter in Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 1 was indicted on charges on tampering with a government record . He is expect...

Ye shall know the truth and yada yada yada

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President Obama has rejected the idea of creating a truth commission to look into interrogation techniques used during the Bush administrat...
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The truth of the matter

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"There are two sides to every story... and then there's the truth." -- Patti Stanger, The Millionaire Matchmaker It's an e...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Wearing two hats

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I must preface my remarks by saying that I know plenty of good attorneys that also write bonds - it's common practice for attorneys who ...
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Proposed legislation would protect teachers' criminal history information

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A bill before the Texas House of Representatives would prevent a public school employee's criminal record from being made public.  Sena...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Where's John Galt?

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The Houston City Council decided to award tax breaks to a developer to build a new downtown hotel near Discovery Green (even though Mayor W...