Sunday, March 31, 2013

Play ball!

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The Criminal Defense Lawyer Invitational fantasy baseball league is set and ready to go. We've got six teams ready to do battle over the...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Book review - Game Over: How Politics has Turned the Sporting World Upside Down

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I'm a big baseball, soccer and college football fan. I grew up playing sports and I believe that a classical education requires working ...
Friday, March 29, 2013

A lucky night in Mexico City

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Had you done nothing but read accounts of the USA-Mexico soccer game the other night, you would have thought the Yanks made one sustained co...

My house, my rules

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The other day out in one of the small towns on the Petroleum Highway (SH 225), I had a client who drove trucks for a living who had gotten a...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Model behavior

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The recent bank bailout in Cyprus is a microcosm of the way capitalism works. To sum it up briefly, the banks in Cyprus took in lots of mone...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Drug dog day afternoon

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Joelis Jardines figured he was safe inside his own house. So long as no one knew what was going on behind the doors he had nothing to worry ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Too good for your own good

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A public defender's office is a strange bird. It's created and funded by the same entity that is doing its damndest to restrict the ...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

False equation

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In his latest shot at the defense bar, Grits for Breakfast seems to be making the argument that everyone should ignore the defense bar's...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Still looking for fantasy baseball players

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Okay, folks, it's time for one more final call for any attorneys out there looking to play a little fantasy baseball. We've got just...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Book review: Ecology and Socialism - Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis

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At the forefront of these conditions rank habitat destruction and rapid, human-induced climate change. the human species seems well on the ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Lies, lies, lies

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The Big Lie began ten years ago this week. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The Bush administration knew it was a lie. T...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The reality of Gideon

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If there is one thing we like to do in this country it's celebrate numbers. This week marks the 50th anniversary of Gideon . Of course t...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The inexorable march toward abolition

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Last week Maryland became the sixth state in the so-called modern era (after the Supreme Court reversed its decision in Furman v. Georgia wi...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Leaving us all just a little bit stupider

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On Friday Lisa Falkenberg penned a column in the Houston Chronicle (sorry, no link because the Chronicle put the article behind a pay wall s...
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Astros owner reveals his true inner being

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Jim Crane, the owner of the Houston Astros, isn't a dummy. He's been a rather successful (ethical would be a very different question...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Are you ready for some baseball?

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Today I'm putting out an invite to all criminal defense attorneys out here in the blawgosphere who like fantasy baseball. Y'all a...
Friday, March 15, 2013

A sense of ownership

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He was wearing what he called his Vietnam hat. He told me it cost $3.50 to park in "his" lot and that I could come and go as I ple...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Criminalizing the homeless

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Sec. 39-2. - Disturbing or removing contents of containers. (a) It is unlawful for any person to intentionally, knowingly or recklessl...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Text parte communications

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There seem to be some shenanigans a-brewing up in the Piney Woods these days. According to a report by KPRC-TV in Houston, State District J...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

TCDLA passes resolution opposing reciprocal discovery

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The following is a resolution passed by the Board of Directors of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association at their meeting this past ...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Revamped reciprocal discovery bill is still bad for the defense

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State Senator Rodney Ellis' (D-Houston) reciprocal discovery bill, otherwise known as the blame the defense for wrongful convictions, ac...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

The dog days of April

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For years some fans of the Houston Astros prayed that Drayton McLane would sell the team. After years of trading prospects for rental player...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Anyone interested in testifying?

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All I can say is "Thank God for New York." Texas may be known as the Killing Fields for the number of inmates we murder year in an...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Bill introduced to create a jail diversion program for the mentally ill

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I've taken my shots at State Senator Joan Huffman (R-Houston) in the past for her attempts to weaken the rights of citizens accused by t...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Who's being served?

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As I was leaving the municipal courthouse the other morning I happened to pass by the offices of a well-known Houston traffic ticket defense...