Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Bradley Manning cleared of aiding the enemy

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Bradley Manning knew what he was doing when he downloaded reams of government documents and forwarded them to WikiLeaks. He knew the informa...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Execution Watch: 7/31/2013

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On Wednesday night the State of Texas will kill again... DOUGLAS FELDMAN.  The former financial analyst from Richardson, Texas, was convi...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Letting them twist in the wind

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As the bottom dropped out of the economy in 2007 and 2008 the government was flailing about trying to figure out what to do. Treasury offici...
Friday, July 26, 2013

House gives NSA data mining operation a thumbs up

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Think the Fourth Amendment still means anything? Think you should be free from government intrusion into your private affairs absent probabl...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Killing v. caging

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The other day my fellow blogger, Grits for Breakfast , left the following comment to a posting about how badly the State of Georgia wants to...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Time for a little road trip

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Two DA's are sitting at the bar. The first one tells the second that there's lots of money to be made from drug forfeitures. The sec...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

A lifesaver

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Dawn broke on Saturday as the girls were packed into the car and the trip to San Antonio was on. Our youngest wanted to go back to SeaWorld ...
Monday, July 22, 2013

No refusal isn't just for weekends anymore

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No longer must we wait for holidays and three-day weekends to celebrate the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment. Now, in Harris County, we ...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Killing at any cost

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Theoretically, when the state exercises its most intrusive power - murdering an inmate - it does so in the name of the people. At least in T...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

California sterilizes dozen of female inmates

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Over a five-year period, 148 female inmates in California's state prison system underwent sterilization procedures that had not been app...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Update: 501 and counting

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John Quintanilla, Jr., was murdered by the State of Texas on Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court denied two last minute appeals. ...
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Execution Watch: 7/18/2013

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On Thursday night the State of Texas kills again... VAUGHN ROSS.  A former architecture student at Texas Tech, Mr. Ross was sentenced to ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Flights of (fanciful) law

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The other night my wife and I watched Flight . For those of y'all not familiar with the movie - Denzel Washington playsWhip Whitaker, an...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Doing their job

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Amid much hand wringing we are left to decipher the meaning of the verdict in the Zimmerman case. There are those in our fraternity who thin...
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Execution Watch: 7/16/2013

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On Tuesday night the State of Texas is planning on murdering its 501st inmate... JOHN QUINTANILLA, JR. Arrested in a Victoria, Texas rob...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Where have all the blawg posts gone?

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I must confess, it wasn't until late this week that I realized I was hopelessly behind with what was happening in the blawgosphere. I...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Why shouldn't Puig be an All-Star?

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Yasiel Puig is a rookie for the Los Angeles Dodgers who defected from Cuba last year. His first full month in the majors was the best for...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Forced feeding = torture

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Is it a form of torture to force feed a prisoner on hunger strike? Let's forget for a second the question of whether it's torture ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Taking the long way around

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Last week we switched from DirecTV to U-verse. Now, while the installation guys got here about 20 minutes before they were scheduled - they ...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Playing post office

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So you plan on going "off the grid" in order to keep the government from keeping tabs on you. Los federales  are storing all the m...
Friday, July 5, 2013

And just how do you define successful?

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Last weekend we went up to Conroe to hang out with the folks and celebrate my younger brother's birthday.  And, of course, at some point...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Be careful what you wish for

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On this day that we celebrate declaring our independence from the English crown it seems appropriate to look at what's happening in E...

Reading the Declaration

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Yesterday the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association held its fourth annual reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps o...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

The turning of the tide 150 years ago

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150 years ago today dawn broke over the fields and foothills of Central Pennsylvania where the armies of George Meade and Robert E. Lee w...

Come gather 'round and read the Declaration

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If you are in Houston this morning, the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association would like to invite you to our 4th Annual reading of the...