Sunday, December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas from the Bexar County Sheriff's Office

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Kameron Prescott was a 6-year-old who lived in a trailer park in Shertz, Texas (just outside San Antonio). I use the word was  because on th...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

You couldn't screw it up this bad if you tried (or could you?)

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I have very mixed emotions about the dumpster fire that has become the Cliven Bundy trial. This week, US District Judge Gloria Navarro decla...
Friday, December 22, 2017

Just let the taxpayers pick up the tab

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What a gig being a congressman must be. You can ogle, tickle, grope and otherwise sexually harass your staff and not pay a dime for it. I...
Friday, December 15, 2017

I vaguely remember something about motions and lemons from law school

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Matthew Spencer Petersen was nominated by President Trump to be a federal district judge for the District of Columbia. He is currently the ...

On its way to the ash heap of history

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For the second year in a row, the State of Texas murdered seven inmates . Last year marked the fewest executions in two decades, now that nu...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

He must have answered an ad on the internet

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Call it hypocrisy. Call it cognitive dissonance. Call it political opportunism. Call it whatever you like after Sen. Charles Grassley ...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

What happens when a law prof ventures outside the ivory tower

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Over a year ago I wrote about t he hornets nest that opened around Judge Aaron Persky in Santa Clara, California. You may recall that he pr...
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Friday, December 8, 2017

DA asks Governor to grant clemency

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Texas, like many other states in the South, has an unhealthy fascination with the Old Testatment's call for an eye for an eye. Well, to ...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Let them eat cake

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Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission , the case about the...
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Monday, December 4, 2017

Ignorance is disgusting

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Last week Donald Trump once again displayed his ignorance about how the criminal (in)justice system works in this country when he tweeted ou...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Yet another reason why it sucks to be poor

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Nowhere in the warning does it say that the government could come and ask you to pay for your appointed lawyer's services. Kelly Un...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Ohio botches another murder

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This past Wednesday, the state of Ohio attempted to murder Alva Campbell, a 69 year-old who's been on death row since 1997. And, once ag...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Fuck Troy Nehls and fuck you for voting for him

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Yes, it's low-hanging fruit. But I've been under the weather the last couple of days and it's the best I can do. I'm su...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Execution Watch 11/8/2017

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Tonight the killing machine strikes again... RUBEN CARDENAS , a Mexican national, was convicted of murdering his cousin, a teenage gir...
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Monday, November 6, 2017

Just kill him

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Today the Supreme Court told the State of Alabama that it's okay to kill Vernon Madison , who was convicted of the 1985 murder of a poli...
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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Execution Watch 10/12/2017

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Tonight the State of Texas will kill again... ROBERT PRUETT, 38, has steadfastly claimed that others framed him in the 2002 killing o...
Monday, February 6, 2017

The bankruptcy of ideas

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President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch is a real throwback. Really a throwback. He is a self-described "ori...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Execution Watch: 10/05/2016

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Tomorrow night the State of Texas will return to its barbarous ways and fire up the killing machine for the first time in six months... ...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Could you be a bit more polite, please?

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How come after the murder of an unarmed black man by the police the first thing folks want to do is caution (mostly black) protesters to be ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Tallying up the cost of mass incarceration

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Carimah Townes just wrote a very interesting short piece in Think Progress  about the true cost of mass incarceration . While we spend $80 ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

The commodification of the law

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On Tuesday I spent more time that usual on Twitter. It might have had something to do with it being my birthday and feeling a bit unmotivate...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Really?

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Some shit you just can't make up. Here is an e-mail I received on Tuesday afternoon. Dear Colleague,   The 2016 HBA Judicial Preferen...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Prison inmates sue Texas over conditions

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I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who don't give two damns whether or not the state provides air conditioning for its inm...
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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Victory at Standing Rock (sort of)

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Last weekend the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline tore up sacred land following the filing of court documents by lawyers represen...

It's a trifecta!

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Harris County DA Devon Anderson may truly be the gift that never stops giving. In addition to the dumpster fire which is Precinct 4, in addi...