Friday, July 30, 2010

A little something to think about

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Who's burden is it?

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Memo to: Mayor Annise Parker and City Attorney David Feldman From: Paul B. Kennedy Date: 7/29/2010 I'm not sure if y'all realize...

Judge's injunction doesn't address the motive behind Arizona's immigration law

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Judge Bolton's decision to enjoin the State of Arizona from enforcing provisions of SB1070 is a step in the right direction but it is ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Well, in that case he is expecting me

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Me: Can I speak to Prosecutor X? Receptionist: Is he expecting you? Me: Not necessarily. It's about the [Client's name] case. He...

What's next? Waterboarding?

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So you think sitting on the wooden benches at the City of Houston Municipal Courthouse is a long, painful experience now -- it just got long...
Monday, July 26, 2010

The problem with (prescription) drugged driving

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Intoxicated means: not having the normal use of mental or physical faculties by reason of the introduction of alcohol, a controlled substanc...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Flawed science

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Yesterday I wrote about the back-door machinations over at the Texas Forensic Science Commission and an update from their meeting in Houston...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Burying the truth like a bone

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The blow-dried one, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, is willing to do whatever he can to erase the stink of an innocent man being executed under hi...

Harris County declares open season on motorists

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Harris County has declared war on area motorists as it launches Operation Shared Responsibility this weekend. The program, spearheaded by t...

Where there's a will...

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Yesterday I stepped into the parallel (some would say alternate) universe known as probate court. A friend of mine had a hearing in Dallas a...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

There's raising the bar, and then there's raising the bar

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Those of us on the "dark" side (i.e. defense bar) are taught to lower the jury's expectations as to our case and raise their e...

Potted meat, anyone?

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This is the text of an e-mail I received last week requesting some link juice. I have cut the back-links in order to punish the guilty. De...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Should I feel safer?

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Ran across this story in the Houston Chronicle this morning that the Houston Police Department has acquired an old Air Force 737 to use for ...
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It's all in the context

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Now that the 2010 World Cup is over we no longer have to listen to those annoying little trumpets from hell known as vuvuzelas . Watching a ...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Judge Killer rebuked

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At long last the saga of Judge Killer seems to be coming to an end with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct's release of its Findi...

Problems in the Austin crime lab

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And that's the way it goes 'round here I think everybody knows That's the song they've been singin' for years That...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

More math lessons from Minnesota

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It's one thing to forget to multiply a urine test result by .67 to get the correct alcohol concentration. It's quite another thing n...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

If at first you don't succeed, lie like a rug

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If you're one of the thousands of scofflaws who received red light camera tickets from the City of Houston but haven't paid, you pro...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Two plus two equals...?

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Lab technicians in a crime law servicing three Minnesota counties couldn't figure out how to calculate alcohol concentrations in urine t...
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The nature of the beast

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Not possible. The function of government is to restrict freedom in exchange for the "creation" of a group right, such as security...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Speaking out

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According to Houston City Attorney David Feldman , the impetus behind the new HPD policy forbidding officers to speak to criminal defense a...
Monday, July 12, 2010

Mother, may I?

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Tomorrow afternoon, at the weekly Houston City Council meeting, the Harris County Criminal Lawyer's Association will speak out against H...
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First let's ban jury trials...

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The Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee seems to have some concerns about drunk driving in Texas . Those concerns, however, seem more fo...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

A little football on the side?

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Later today it will be the short passing game of the La Furia Roja against the possession oriented attack of the men of Oranje in the Worl...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Legislating away your reasonable expectation of privacy

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be...