Tuesday, June 29, 2010

It's the reason for the season

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Celebrate the reason behind the Fourth of July on July 1 at 11:00 a.m. outside the Harris County Criminal (In)justice Center as members of t...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Plea bargains in DWI cases? Are you serious?

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Yes, Virginia, the Harris County DA's Office does offer plea bargains on DWI cases -- even felony DWI cases. Last week KPRC-TV ran a st...

Problem, what problem?

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For the ordinary sports fan sitting at home, the offsides rule in soccer may very well make no sense. For a soccer fan, the rule is crystal ...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Supreme Court limits scope of honest services statute

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In ruling on Jeffrey Skilling's appeal of his convictions related to the collapse of Enron, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to extend...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Celebrate the Fourth by burning the Constitution

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Here we go again. Officials with the Smith County (TX) District Attorney's Office have announced the Bill of Rights will be suspended f...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

You can't make this stuff up

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It looks like Gov. Goodhair has found a way to resolve the Big Problem in the Gulf. It's not what you might think. We're not talkin...

Give 'em a foot and they'll take a mile

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Yesterday, Ohio criminal defense attorney Jeff Gamso wrote on his blog Gamso - For the Defense  about the case of Robert Stevens who was ch...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Goooooooooooool!

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So there we were, in the snack lounge on the first floor of the Galveston County Courthouse just a few minutes before 11 o'clock this mo...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Law schools doing a disservice by inflating grades

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According to this article in today's New York Times, law schools are happily leading us down the path of academic fraud and dishonesty....
Friday, June 18, 2010

Under cover of darkness

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A blacked out van picks up five men who have trained shooting at human targets for months. Their names aren't recorded anywhere - nor is...

Mayor pulls plug on HPD vampire training

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Houston Mayor Annise Parker pulled the plug on an HPD initiative to train officers to become licensed phlebotomists so they could draw blo...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Why do I do what I do?

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I was listening to one of my Johnny Cash CD's on the drive down to Jackson County this morning and couldn't help but push the back b...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Audit reveals problems in radar traffic enforcement

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It's amazing what a simple little public information request will turn up sometimes. In Harris County it turns out that deputy constab...

When office policy clashes with the law

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According to the Texas Penal Code, the punishment range for a first-time DWI conviction is not less than 72 hours and not more than 180 days...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

How about an "Exercise Your Rights" weekend?

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Here's an idea. How 'bout we get some judges and defense attorneys to make themselves available to people who've been arrested...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Jury charge undermines presumption of innocence

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One of the things a judge always tells a jury (in one form or another) is that " the jury is the exclusive judge of the facts, but is b...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

Does anyone see a necessity defense coming?

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I suppose it's time for a little comic relief at the end of a long week. I can't say that this thought hasn't crossed my mind be...

That's not a UFO, that's a courthouse

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While in San Antonio for the Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Seminar  I walked over to the John H. Wood, Jr. Federal Courthouse in Hemis...

Nearly 400 drivers victimized by faulty breath test machines in D.C.

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According to Washington, D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles, improperly calibrated breath test machines have thrown into question nearly 40...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Firing up a fatty has little effect on driving

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Researchers from Hartford (CT) Hospital and the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine conducted a double-blind study on the effects...

Ol' Red

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While in the Alamo City, I couldn't resist taking a walk and snapping a few pictures of the Bexar County Courthouse . It's a beautif...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

A different perspective on voir dire

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Thomas Mesereau, Jr. , of Los Angeles, posed an interesting question as he wrapped up the 23rd Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law sem...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Selig for the Supreme Court

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Maybe President Obama should look to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig in choosing a replacement for retiring Justice John Paul S...

You gotta speak up to shut up

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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an ...
Friday, June 4, 2010

Liberty loses another champion

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Liberty lost another of its champions with the passing of Oktavia Carstarphen. I met Oky when I first began practicing criminal law on the i...