Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The assault on indigent defense down on the island

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For the latest assault on indigent defense we go down the road to Galveston County where judges will vote on changes to the county's ind...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Still alive and kicking after four years

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Four years, and 1633 posts, ago yesterday  the first words appeared on this blog. The post was about the need for PR bonds in Harris County...
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Execution Watch: 8/7/2012

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The state that likes to keep on killing is at it again. ON TUESDAY NIGHT, TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE: MARVIN WILSON . Mr. Wilson was sent t...
Sunday, August 5, 2012

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

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Candidates who switch parties between elections open themselves up to criticism that they are either sell-outs or opportunists. Some manage ...
Saturday, August 4, 2012

I don't remember church being like this

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Okay, so "storming" a church wearing garish clothing, wearing masks and playing a punk song urging the populace to say no to the f...
Friday, August 3, 2012

Sometimes you win by losing

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Who would've thought the biggest Olympic scandal to date would be in the field of women's badminton? Four doubles teams have been...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

We're the police and we're here to help

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He was acting strangely. His hair was wet. His eyes were "big." He told the clerk at the hotel he needed help.  He wouldn't co...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Making us all just a little bit dumber

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Apparently Amy Davis of KPRC-TV in Houston doesn't keep up with the news . If she had, she might not have criticized the Harris County S...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

The company you keep

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While there is reason for death penalty opponents in Texas to be happy thanks to the Court of Criminal Appeals' stay of the scheduled ex...
Monday, July 30, 2012

High court stays execution of mentally ill inmate

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On Friday the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did what a Brazos County state district judge was unwilling to do. It stayed the scheduled exe...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

This old courthouse: Chicken ranch edition

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Back in May my wife and I took a trip out toward the Hill Country. One of our stops was in La Grange - home of the infamous Chicken Ranch. I...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Jumping the gun

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After spending days telling everyone who would listen that he thought James Holmes should get the death penalty for the massacre in Aurora, ...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Have you seen this meter?

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You gotta hand it to Mayor Annise Parker. She, and her colleagues on City Council, have come up with a brilliant way to raise additional rev...

We'll go far to screw you

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Oh the fun of dealing with thieves and crooks. Not at the courthouse, mind you. Nope, once again we're talking about Wells Fargo. I wr...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Swinging the sledgehammer

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In 1987, the NCAA leveled the heaviest sanction against a member institution in its history when it banned SMU from playing football for on...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Out of the mouths of babes

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The candidates have spoken and here's the video that proves it. Houston weather, traffic, news | FOX 26 | MyFoxHouston Ultimately, h...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Swearing on the telephone

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A few days ago Scott Greenfield over at Simple Justice   picked up on a piece written by Walter Olson decrying the use of a judge's gave...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

A trailblazer passes on

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This past weekend, legendary country music performer Kitty Wells died at the age of 92. Now maybe you haven't heard of Ms. Wells before,...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Indigent defense under attack again

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You know the drill. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you. You have the right to an attor...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Update: One is the loneliest number

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So Rick Perry proved once again that he's man enough to preside over the murder of an inmate . This is the same man who has presided ove...

The great debate of 2012

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First came the great debates in ancient Greece among philosophers trying to make sense of the world and the nature of man. Then came the...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Predicting the future

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Last week the Houston Chronicle ran a heartwarming story of how the City of Houston Municipal Courts were giving folks a few extra days to t...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Execution Watch 7/18/12

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The state that carries out more executions than any other state is ready to kill again. This time Texas will use a single lethal dose of pe...

An innocent man

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A man is kidnapped in Somalia. The warlord hands over to an official from another country who then sends the man to a secret prison somewher...
Monday, July 16, 2012

FBI to review thousands of cases for faulty forensics

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Oops. Now the FBI is reviewing thousands of cases dating back to 1985 to determine if anyone was wrongly convicted as the result of hair a...