Friday, January 8, 2010

Need to sober up? Take a pill

›
British scientists are working on developing a synthetic alcohol substitute whose effects could be reversed by taking a pill . Professor Dav...
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Horns and Tide square off for all the roses

›
Tonight the Texas Longhorns and the Alabama Crimson Tide square off at the Rose Bowl to decide who is the BCS National Champion for 2009. If...

Is it even a crime?

›
Yesterday I read about a 42 year old Houston woman who was charged with the online solicitation of a minor and enticing a minor after retur...
2 comments:

That's called a scoop

›
Hey, did y'all know the Montgomery County (TX) DA was putting the names of people arrested on suspicion of DWI on Twitter? Well, apparen...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Manufacturing memories

›
According to this article in the new issue of Scientific American, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, were able to manufa...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Making a molehill out of a mountain

›
I was watching Everest: Beyond the Limit on Discovery Channel the other night and was struck by the complexity of organizing an expedition ...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Defense attorney turns snitch

›
Federal prosecutors used an informant to gather information from Shannon Williams, suspected of operating a multi-million dollar drug ring f...

Judge orders courtroom spectators to submit to drug tests

›
Benjamin Marchet of South Carolina has filed suit in Federal Court in Tennessee alleging that Dickson County (TN) Judge Durwood Moore ordere...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

Today the interlock, tomorrow...

›
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D.-NJ) and Senator Tom Udall (D.-NM) have introduced the Drunk Driver Repeat Offender Prevention Act that would r...
1 comment:
Thursday, December 31, 2009

An offer you just can't refuse

›
"The purpose of the complaint, then, is to enable the appropriate magistrate... to determine whether the 'probable cause' requi...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

DA defends tweeting names of DWI arrestees

›
Last night, Warren Diepraam of the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office appeared on MSNBC to talk about his department's use...
1 comment:

DWI is big business

›
According to this article in the Illinois News-Tribune, the fines paid by motorists convicted of driving while intoxicated are used to purch...
1 comment:
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Convicted judge resigns from bench

›
Donald Jackson is now a former judge having submitted his resignation earlier today. For those of you wanting to know the fate of the compl...
1 comment:

Taxi, dammit!

›
The Montgomery County (Texas) Sheriff's Office has introduced a new patrol car for DWI enforcement. No word on whether the meter will t...
2 comments:
Monday, December 28, 2009

And so it begins...

›
Carrying through on his threat/promise to post the names of motorists charged with driving while intoxicated in Montgomery County, DA Brett ...

Motorists using Twitter to avoid checkpoints

›
If local prosecutors want to use Twitter to try to humiliate motorists arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, then why shouldn...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Bad ideas never die, they just drag on and on

›
Well, here we are a week after the Montgomery County District Attorney announced plans to post the names of those arrested on suspicion of D...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

A happy Christmas story

›
Earlier this year I represented a gentleman down in Galveston who had been arrested on a drug case and placed on probation back in 2005. Unf...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

If you live in a glass house...

›
The sad saga of Judge Donald Jackson took an odd turn yesterday when an attorney representing Ariana Venegas fired off a letter to Judge Ja...

Nature v. Nurture

›
Free will or determinism? According to a pair of recent studies , how one answers that question goes a long way in determining how you act. ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

DWT is more dangerous than DWI

›
A new study found that motorists who text while driving are six times more likely to be involved in a crash that those who just drive. Univ...

An intimidated witness is the same as no witness

›
Federal Judge Cormac J. Carney of the the Central District of California dismissed the government's stock-option fraud case against Will...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Harris County judge sentenced to 30 days in jail

›
In a sad end to a judicial career, Judge Donald Jackson , who was convicted of official oppression last Friday, was sentenced to 2 years pro...

Supremes to revisit confrontation question

›
The US Supreme Court may be rethinking its ruling in the Melendez-Diaz case that prohibited prosecutors from introducing lab reports into ...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

To the top of the page we go

›
"Sir, we can put you on the top of Page 1 for Google, Yahoo!, Bing and any other search engine out there." "I'm game. Wha...
1 comment: