Monday, May 31, 2010

Happy Memorial Day

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While the official purpose of Memorial Day to to honor those who gave their lives on battlefields around the world in the name of freedom an...

New roadside sobriety tests in Louisiana?

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Here's a little bit of humor for y'all on this Memorial Day weekend. Lord knows I need a laugh after seeing that "No Refusal We...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Did they hire an inefficiency expert?

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Incompetence, thy name is the City of Houston Municipal Court. I had two cases I needed to place on this afternoon's Annex docket at 3...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Mine eyes have seen the glory that used to be the 4th Amendment

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What better way to celebrate Memorial Day than making a mockery of the 4th Amendment ? In 1868, General John Logan, Commander of the Grand...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Convicted rapist exonerated by DNA

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Ernest Sonnier who was released from prison last August when evidence surfaced that he had been wrongly convicted of a 1985 rape was exoner...
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Georgia on my mind

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One in thirteen people behind bars, on probation or on parole. One in seventy people behind bars. One billion dollars spent every year to ...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Brother, can you spare a question or two?

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I see and get last minute requests for voir dire  questions and questions for cross examination of technical supervisors and other experts o...
Friday, May 21, 2010

In juries we trust?

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Jaime Esparza, the El Paso County District Attorney, says he doesn't trust juries . In explaining why his office agreed to 10 years prob...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Sign stealing and the boys of summer

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Now it seems as if the Colorado Rockies are all upset because the Philadelphia Phillies were stealing signs in a recent game. The Phillies...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Lost in the moment

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Yesterday my wife surprised me for our anniversary and took me rock climbing at Texas Rock Gym . For two hours we climbed and climbed. Took ...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Roadblocks down in the bayou

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The Sheriff over in Cameron Parish, Louisiana decided to set himself up  a roadblock to catch all those pesky drunk drivers  in Grand Lake l...

Next door to the witness protection office

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Is it, really?
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Sucking the very life out of the Constitution

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I've written about at length about " No Refusal Weekends " in Harris County, around Texas and even in other states. Now you ha...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Defendants say the craziest things

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"Some people don't get it the first time..." -- defendant at sentencing hearing. Of course, since it was her 10th theft conv...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Interview with a vampire

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Early warning radar indicates that vampires may be descending on New Orleans this Memorial Day Weekend. These vampires are thought to be dr...

No experience needed

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Earlier this week State District Judge Susan Criss from down in Galveston posted a comment on her Facebook page that 40 of the 111 Chief Ju...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

At least he's our so-and-so

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Maybe the line is just apocryphal , but supposedly President Franklin D. Roosevelt once remarked regarding (a) Nicaraguan dictator Anastasi...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Take me out to the ball game... take me WAY out to the ball game

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Some things "just ain't right" and Major League Baseball's decision to move the Philadelphia-Toronto interleague series f...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Why fear democracy?

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It seems to be an iron rule of organizations that leaders are not so much elected by the membership rather they are "promoted" fro...

Except during the hours of ...

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Apparently not this morning as the doors to the courtroom for the 212th Judicial District Court were locked at 11:30 am. On the other han...
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Welcome to the jungle

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This is your war on drugs. This is your war on civil liberties. This is your war on the Constitution. This is your war on your fellow citi...

Add DWH to the Arizona penal code

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There is a new crime on the books in Arizona and it's called Driving While Hispanic. With the passage of SB 1070 , law enforcement offic...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Painting a picture with words

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One of baseball's legends passed away yesterday. Ernie Harwell , the longtime voice of the Detroit Tigers, died after losing a battle ag...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Four the love of...

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Yesterday I dared to enter the Harris County Civil Courthouse to ask a judge to issue an occupational driver's license to a client of mi...
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Monday, May 3, 2010

Classroom heroes

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Okay, I was going to go off on a rant today about my experience in civil court this afternoon - but it will have to wait for another day bec...