Saturday, August 31, 2013

Are y'all ready for some football?

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Well it's that time of the year again. Fall is approaching. Temperatures are falling (to the lower 90's). And the natives are back...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Everything you need to know about DWI

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I'm waiting for the special "No Refusal" edition that includes a rubber hose, needle and syringe for conducting forcible bl...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

School district climbs in bed with oil industry

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What a surprise to find, on my way back from lunch, that HISD's new Energy Institute High School is practically just around the corner ...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Wake up America!

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Today, on the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, we will hear countless clips from the "I Have a Dream" speech giv...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

History doesn't have to repeat itself to create a farce

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farce     [ fahrs ]   noun,   verb,   farced,   farc·ing. noun 1. a   light,   humorous   play   in   which   the   plot   dep...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Why not just reduce the number of federal prosecutions?

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Under the sequester, federal agencies were required to cut their budgets across the board. Of course when business travelers felt the inconv...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

A little good news for disgraced Galveston jurist

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Down on the island, the saga of disgraced jurist Christopher Dupuy took another turn this week as Ryan Patrick, a visiting judge from Harris...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

The high price of exposing the truth

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Yesterday Col. Denise Lind sentenced Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for exposing the truth . He exposed the lies, deceit and criminal...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Cutting and pasting

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This is the mission statement from a Justice of the Peace court out in west Texas. Precinct 1 will provide timely, fair and cost effectiv...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Going after the fourth estate

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Glenn Greenwald is a very bad man. At least that's the impression the Obama administration wants to give you. It was Mr. Greenwald who...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Book review: Rise of the Warrior Cop - The militarization of America's police forces

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In Rise of the Warrior Cop , Radley Balko takes a look at the current state of policing in these United States and asks "how did we get...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Making your bed and sleeping in it

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Oh, be so careful what you wish for. Millions cheered when Muhammed Morsi was deposed last month in Egypt. No, he was no friend of democr...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Stepping back from stop-and-frisk

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Earlier this week US District Judge Shira Scheindlin declared New York City's stop and frisk program to be unconstitutional . She fou...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Does the S in SWAT stand for suicide?

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Someone calls in threatening to commit suicide ? Sure, send out the camouflage-wearing, automatic weapon toting play soldiers of the SWAT...

The assault on voting rights continues

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Well, it certainly didn't take long for a state to put forward the most restrictive voter ID law in the country following the Supreme C...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Too little, too late

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Yes, Eric Holder, the (in)justice system is broken when it comes to drug offenses. Mandatory minimums and disparate sentencing guidelines ar...
Monday, August 12, 2013

NH police view Occupy protesters as terrorists

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From the website Common Dreams  comes this story of the increasing militarization of the police: In a bid to bring armored vehicles to the...
Friday, August 9, 2013

California city strikes back at foreclosures

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The town of Richmond, California was hard hit by the economic meltdown. As a result, many homeowners are underwater on their mortgages and h...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Ethics and death

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What is one to do? You are hired to represent a client accused of killing several people and wounding others. Your client is facing the de...

Warriors for a new tomorrow

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No, that's not an armed invasion of the City of Houston. It's just the latest example of the increasing militarization of the pol...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Smoke and mirrors, please

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It's a strategy as old as politics itself - whenever you get caught up in a shitstorm of bad publicity over a policy, go with the old mi...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Neutral and detached? Whatever

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Sign belonging to Judge Bill Harmon sitting just outside the courtroom in the entrance way from chambers. If you examine the photo of ...
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Monday, August 5, 2013

Has it really been five years already?

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Today marks a couple of landmarks in the world of The Defense Rests . It was five years ago today that the first post went out across the in...

Still more trouble for Galveston judge

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Disgraced Galveston County jurist Christoper Dupuy truly is the gift that keeps on giving . Facing contempt charges for violating the visi...
Friday, August 2, 2013

The medicine cabinet runneth bare

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While public outcry (what little public outcry there is) against the death penalty has done little (more likely, nothing) to stem the tide o...