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13 Dec, 2006 11:07 pm
... that hearing (and the arguments in support of, and against, the bill) can be found here in an article in today's Austin American Statesman. With the current definition of "journalist," traditional bloggers would not receive the privilege despite ... and their reporters
would receive the benefit of the privilege. It seems to me that if the privilege is going to apply to a blogger for the Austin American
Statesman (see Staff blogs on Statesman.com and Austin360.com) it should also apply to bloggers out ...
9 Nov 7:20 am
... to answer to state lawmakers, when the Senate Criminal Justice Committee holds a hearing to question Bradley's plans for the commission. Austin lawyer Keith Hampton, vice president of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers
Association, said he ... at the agency, including new confidentiality requirements, to ensure that its future reviews of criminal cases are credible. John Bradley, the district attorney in Williamson County and chairman of the commission, also promised that the panel will apply a " ...
10 Nov 7:41 am
Today's Austin American-Statesman carries the editorial, "Lawmakers should reassess
panel's purpose." Those who know Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley - even, and maybe
especially, his ... a timeline for shaping up commission procedures and reaching conclusions on the science behind the Willingham case. The public also deserves clarity on what
Bradley meant in bemoaning the fact that forensic commission reports and materials are not required to be kept confidential. He said even the
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30 Sep 8:41 am
... connected conservative." I've certainly heard him called worse! ;) (Hi John!) Bradley's first act
as chair? To cancel a hearing Friday where the Commission was scheduled to hear ... than will ever read anything the Commission publishes, so concern about polishing the
state's image on the Willingham case is both belated and misdirected. We'll see ... prettier than I am." See more initial coverage from the New
York Times, the Austin Statesman, the Dallas News, AP, Kuff, Eye on Williamson, and Burnt Orange ...
6 Nov 7:29 am
... Fired Up," is the title of Mary Alice Robbins' report for Texas Lawyer. It gives us the most detailed look at John Bradley's plans as the new Chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. The prosecutor heading a commission at the center of a political firestorm will
recommend ways to improve the panel's operations at a Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing Nov. 10. The controversy ignited in September
when Gov. Rick Perry abruptly ...
20 Jun, 2008 1:36 am
... A typical argument against constitutional protections for DWI suspects is to claim that it will save lives to make it easier to convict. Mr. Bradley's position is that if he could only replace this judge with a rubber stamp magistrate lives would be saved
... has made prosecutors like Bradley zealots for conviction, when they are supposed to be seeking justice. One prosecutor, Clay Abbott from
Austin, notes the judge should be grieved for "not following the law." Mr. Abbott, here is the law on forced ...
6 Nov 2:27 am
... request can only be a reaction the Willingham uproar, which was raised to a national issue with Bradley's abrupt appointment by Governor Perry to chair the FSC and his subsequent ... proposition that seems like a really big stretch, to me, anway. On the bright
side: Bradley says, "I do plan to recommend that the commission move forward and complete a report ... straight up case of politics trumping
science. E pur si muove UPDATE (11/8): Check out a lengthy profile of John Bradley from the Austin
Statesman ...
24 Jan, 2007 10:27 pm
" Rollingwood may sue Austin law firm. City says lawyers had conflict of interest": The Austin
American Statesman reports here that: The City of Rollingwood, a 1,450-resident hamlet just west of Zilker Park, will probably decide tonight whether to sue an Austin law firm over the firm's role in a sewer project that has cost Rollingwood millions of dollars more than
expected. At issue is whether the firm, Armbrust & Brown LLP, informed city leaders it ...
19 Oct, 2008 8:45 pm
... low-level, non-violent misdemeanors, a change that's been promoted locally by the group Keep Austin Safe. Reported the Austin Statesman ("Austin police to begin
citing, not ... estimated that if the policy had been in place last year, about 15,000 Austin suspects could have been cited instead of taken
to jail, a process that can ... Madden said. However, critics, including Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, said the law "sends
the exact opposite signal" law enforcement officials should ...
10 Nov 7:52 am
... Whitmire, the Houston Democrat who wrote the 2005 legislation that created the commission, has said he wants to know Bradley's plans for the commission and whether it will hear from an expert critical of arson evidence used against
Cameron Todd Willingham. ... to intervene. But the commission first needs to establish written policies and procedures, said Bradley, the
district attorney in Williamson County. And: Austin criminal defense lawyer Sam Bassett, the commission's previous chairman, said he ...
6 Oct 10:03 pm
... Commission urged Gov. Rick Perry to retain commission Chairman Sam Bassett less than four weeks before the Austin lawyer was ousted in a
commission shake-up that has stalled an inquiry involving a 2004 execution. Three members of the commission, ... back before the commission. "I don't know enough about that case or the
commission to answer that question," Bradley said in a telephone interview, saying that it's "going
to take quite a while" to get up to speed on the Willingham case. Baltimore arson ...
26 May 3:29 am
... 09 WordinEdgewise, by Widener University law professor John Culhane (analysis of Justice Moreno's dissenting opinion) 05/26/09
WordinEdgewise, by Widener University law professor John ... 28/09 Reality Check Live with Mike Monokian, discussion of the ruling by ADF attorney Austin R. Nimock. 05/28/09 San Diego Union-Tribune, by Glen Lavy ... by appellate practitioner Jon B. Eisenberg and Robert Bradley Sears, executive director of UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public
...
20 Apr, 2007 12:27 pm
... clerk for Justice David Souter nevertheless draws raves from leading appellate advocates. "He's really, really good," says Carter Phillips
of Sidley Austin; another Supreme Court regular says that Newsom writes briefs with a novelist's ...
He's won seven-and the other two are pending. Well, we've just learned that Newsom is moving on from the SG's office. From a tipster: Alabama SG Kevin Newsom will be joining the Birmingham law firm of Bradley Arant Rose
& White. BARW now has three former SC ...
18 Sep 1:13 am
... been solved, so now, with so much free time on his hands, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo can pursue the really important public safety ...
officers and vociferously criticized the department. But as Williamson County DA John Bradley noted on the Texas prosecutor user forum, "It is
an interesting question as to whether your own ... down a fake account that pretended to issue official Austin police bulletins after the
department and the Texas attorney general's office complained. University of Texas law ...
11 Dec, 2008 12:14 am
... & Strawn litigators Dan Webb and Bradley Lerman were not at Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's
side when he appeared at a bond hearing on Tuesday. ... a private equity firm seeking state pension fund work. Cari's lawyer, Sidley
Austin litigation partner Scott Lassar, says that his client has cooperated ... indicator that he will likely be called on to provide future
testimony against the governor. WINSTON'S WINDFALL The downfall of Cari and Rezko, along with the subsequent legal troubles of Illinois ...
2 Oct 6:57 am
... back on the Cameron Willingham case might be intrigued to learn of an interesting development on the case's aftermath, currently playing
out in Texas' top political circles. First, the news: ... conviction but before his execution came to believe Willingham's story. Gerald L.
Hurst, an Austin scientist and fire investigator, reviewed the evidence and ... say that he'd agreed with many of Hurst's conclusions. But the chairman newly appointed by Perry, John M. Bradley, canceled the hearing, saying he did ...
24 Feb, 2007 6:11 am
The Odessa American reports today that Midland Sheriff Gary Painter was in Austin lobbying on behalf the Sheriffs Association this week.
Here's the agenda they were promoting: Members of the Sheriff's Association of Texas discussed
varying ... incarceration is borne by the state. So local prosecutors who are super aggressive on lower level charges like John Bradley in
Williamson County or Chuck Rosenthal in Harris actually cost the state a disproportionate amount compared to other counties, as do ...
12 Nov 8:48 am
... shortcomings. "Bassett utterly failed to adopt even a definition of negligence or misconduct to be applied to investigations of forensic science," Bradley wrote in an e-mail to The Dallas Morning News. "In the scientific world, that amounts to incompetence." Bassett responded that he ... This morning,
former commission chairman Sam Bassett, an Austin criminal defense lawyer, sent reporters an email warning that new chairman John
Bradley's desire for comprehensive written rules and standards for the ...
11 Nov 7:54 am
... before being cleared in an arson murder by modern scientific techniques. Under questioning from Ellis, Bradley kept referring to the
Innocence Project as a "New York nonprofit" and implied that its mission ... happen," said the panel's former chairman, Austin attorney Sam Bassett, who sat in on Tuesday's hearing. And: Bassett sat in on Bradley's testimony Tuesday ... organization that renews confidence in the Texas justice system. He pointed out that
Houston's crime lab has 4,000 unopened rape kits, and 1 ...
2 Oct 9:29 am
... Perry defends shake-up of forensics board; Rawson to leave information agency," is in today's Austin American-Statesman. Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday defended his shake- ... He said he wanted to consult with the lawmakers who created the commission
about its mission." UPDATE: Bradley e-mailed me this morning to clarify his position. He said, "To be clear, ... Hoppe writes, "Perry defends
removal of 3 before arson hearing," for today's Dallas Morning News. Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday defended his removal ...
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