Thursday, November 3, 2011

New members appointed to Texas forensic science panel

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It's out with the old and in with the new on the Texas Forensic Science Commission as the Fair-haired One appointed three new members an...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Judge calls top prosecutors on the carpet

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Oh, what tangled webs we weave... As you already may know (if you read Murray Newman's blog ), two top-ranking prosecutors and two co...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Eyes in the sky

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Unmanned drones will soon be making their appearance in the skies over Montgomery County, Texas. Officials with the Montgomery County Sherif...
Monday, October 31, 2011

You can call it what you will, but it's still illegal

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You may remember Ruben Trejo , he's the former HPD sergeant who collided with a school bus on his way to work -- with an alcohol concent...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Running downhill

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This is an aerial photograph of the historic Thai city of Ayutthaya, just north of Bangkok. The flooding in Thailand is another remind...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Update: Just another murder

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The State of Texas murdered Frank Garcia last night . There was no fanfare. There was no media frenzy. There was no one broadcasting from ou...

Goldman Sachs declares war on local credit union

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This is Greg Palast's report on Democracy Now!  regarding Goldman Sachs using taxpayer bailout funds to attack Occupy Wall Street. If ...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Protecting and serving whom?

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The cities of Atlanta and Oakland have declared war against those protesting against corporate greed and the politics of influence . In both...

On Wall Street, trademarks and marketing

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First there was Occupy Wall Street! Then the movement spread across the country and around the world. Throughout the United States there ar...

Paying it forward

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Yeah, that's right. I'm guilty. I admit it. I have borrowed, alluded to and stolen from some of the best in the business. I liked ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The plot thickens

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It would appear that the shit has hit the fan over at 1201 Franklin. Today, State District Judge Susan Brown appointed former prosecutors ...

A rat in a trap

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As my colleague Murray Newman reported earlier today, four prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney's Office were subpoenae...

Execution Watch 10/27/2011

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Texas plans to murder Frank Garcia on Thursday night for killing his wife and a police officer in San Antonio in 2001.  Execution Watch  wi...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Avoiding the real problem in the Texas prison system

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Runaway jury

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The original purpose of the grand jury was to have a body that could review a case to determine if there was enough evidence to proceed. The...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

More questions than answers

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One of the trademarks of a dictatorship is the Law of Rule. When the forces of democracy finally topple the old regime (which they always do...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Some more jury math

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This past week I tried a DWI case in Harris County (that ended in an acquittal) and we used a series of scaled questions to obtain informati...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Isn't it ironic? (Don't you think?)

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Sgt. Roy Marquez of the Houston Police Department's Traffic Enforcement Division (the guys in charge of the DWI task force) found himsel...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Riding in style

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This past Saturday night my wife ran off to the grocery store while I got the girls ready for bed. After the nighttime routine was over my w...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Staggering dockets won't relieve jail overcrowding

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Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia has taken it upon himself to try to resolve the county's long-term problem of jail overcrowding. It...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Eleven years for what?

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Can someone please explain to me exactly what Raj Rajaratnam did to merit a sentence of 11 years in federal prison? I understand he was c...

Ten paces at high noon

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Republican Florida state representative Brad Drake has an idea on how to resolve the debate about the efficacy of the three drug lethal cock...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Wanted: George W. Bush

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Amnesty International has called on the Canadian government either to arrest former US President George W. Bush or to extradite him when he...

Trying to quiet the voices of dissent

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Hank Williams, Jr. (who can't hold a candle to his father) may have gotten his panties in a wad after ESPN fired him for his comments co...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

County proposes plan to ration health care in case of emergency

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If you're unhappy about the way your insurance company likes to question your doctor about the appropriate treatment for whatever ails y...