Tuesday, August 5, 2014

The end of the road?

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Six years ago today The Defense Rests  made its first appearance in the blawgosphere. Since that first humble post on the need for PR bonds ...
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Monday, August 4, 2014

Road songs

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No deep insights today. Just a few of my favorite road songs...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Taking credit where credit wasn't due

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Michael Phillips was arrested for the 1990 rape of a 16-year-old girl. Mr. Phillips, who maintained his innocence, entered into a plea agree...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Vultures holding Argentina hostage

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Back in 2001 Argentina defaulted on its debt obligations due to a cratering economy. Over the intervening years the government reached agree...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Just looking for an excuse to affirm

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In 2012, Milton Kay was driving in Orange, Texas without wearing his seatbelt and without having a current registration sticker on his winds...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Where it's worse to smoke a joint than beat up your wife

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Last week Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was suspended for two games without pay for an incident in which he knocked his (now) wife...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Usurping the power of the jury deep in the Heart of Dixie

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In 2010 Courtney Lockhart, a US Army veteran who served in Iraq, was convicted of the 2008 carjacking and murder of Auburn University studen...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Another day, another botched execution

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On Wednesday there was yet another botched execution . This time it was in Arizona. This time the victim of the state's callous disregar...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

The failure of mass incarceration

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Think mass incarceration works? Just listen to this...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Sleeping is not necessarily operating

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In every DWI case a defense attorney must assess two issues - first, was the client intoxicated and second, was the client operating a motor...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Judge declares death penalty unconstitutional in California

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Earnest Dewayne Jones was sentenced to death in California for raping and killing his girlfriend's mother in 1992. He is one of more tha...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Perry pulls a 180 on immigration

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Once upon a time Gov. Rick Perry had a sensible position on immigration. He knew, as did most Texans, that Texas has a unique relationship w...
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Friday, July 18, 2014

A little side trip on the way to Georgetown

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Yesterday was a big road trip day. I had to be out in Sealy in the morning and then in Georgetown (north of Austin) in the afternoon. So, af...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Bigfoot and jurors

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One of my guilty pleasures is watching Finding Bigfoot on Sunday nights. If you haven't seen the show it's about four bigfoot "...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Keeping it weird in Austin

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Well, just when Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg thought everything had died down after her DWI conviction, she managed to ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Having too much information can be hazardous

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Brian P. Fox is a student at Notre Dame Law School, not an actual lawyer. He has studied criminal law and criminal procedure but he has not ...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

Final thoughts on the World Cup

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It's over now and Germany gets to display the world's ugliest championship trophy for the next four years. You would think with the ...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Unintended consequences of the Michael Morton Act

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All across the State of Texas, local district attorneys are teaming up with judges to find creative ways to get prosecutors out from under t...
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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Analyzing the law rather than justifying an outcome

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Francheska Jaganathan was motoring along Interstate 10 in Chambers County (just east of Houston) when she was stopped by a state trooper for...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The assembly line keeps on moving

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I caught an interesting piece on All Things Considered  this afternoon about sentencing reform . Over the last couple of decades tough-on-cr...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Stop me if you've heard this before...

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It seems that no matter how hard it tries, the Houston Police Department Crime Lab just can't keep itself out of the news. Peter Lentz w...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

Turning the other cheek

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I apologize for the brevity of this post but it's early Sunday evening and I'm sitting at my desk in an office building in which the...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Happy Fourth (or not)

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Yesterday the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association carried on a tradition born four years ago with the annual reading of the Declar...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Disgraced former DA gets new gig

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Disgraced former Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley has finally landed a new gig . He will be working in the Attorney General...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

End of the road in the World Cup

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Yesterday the dream of a World Cup trophy died for the United States with a 2-1 loss to Belgium. The US performance has been described as gu...