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19 Mar 2012, 3:45 pm
I wrote here about Houston lawyer John C. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 7:09 am
Defending People started five years ago today. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 6:59 am
US News and World Report says of my alma mater, University of Houston Law Center: Students can get hands-on legal experience through the school’s clinics, which provide training in immigration law, criminal defense, and more. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 5:57 pm
Harris County Republican Party Executive Committee resolution on the PD's office, "the official Harris County Republican Party position on this issue" as of October 2009, announced by HCRP Chairman Jared Woodfill a few days ago: RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE PRESENT HARRIS COUNTY PRIVATIZED INDIGENT DEFENSE SYSTEM WHEREAS, Harris County for years has had a privatized outsourced indigent defense system that is effective and cost efficient; and, WHEREAS, Harris County Republican Judges have… [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 2:59 pm
Nobody ever won a national election based on “love.” Fear or hope (which is just the sunny side of fear): these are the things on which presidential campaigns are built. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 4:22 am
If I think that my friends in the media are about to report a story inaccurately, I don't caution them against reporting the story; I point them toward the facts. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 8:12 pm
Meanwhile, crime victim advocate Joe Wamback, a Newmarket resident and former federal Conservative candidate, supports the omnibus legislation. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 8:00 pm
I am, in case you didn't know it, interested in innovation in the practice of law. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 2:56 pm
The City of Houston wants to regulate feeding the homeless—to make it a crime for anyone to feed the homeless without registering with the city and jumping through a bunch of other hoops (PDF of proposed ordinance). [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 11:57 am
I wrote here, “I’m willing to give up some freedom to have fire protection and paved roads…”; one of my Twitter correspondents chided me: “He who would sacrifice liberty in the name of safety deserves neither.” I don’t think that’s right. [read post]
4 Mar 2012, 6:11 pm
The first time I got to vote in a presidential election was in November 1988. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 6:56 pm
When I saw this story: The fallout from severe layoffs at the Orleans Parish public defender’s office came to an early head Friday inside a criminal courtroom. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 5:30 pm
Lawyers who look at Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College often see it as a cult. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 3:56 pm
Patients should be able to decide what happens to them. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 11:55 am
So I was in Harris County Criminal Court at Law Number 14 this morning waiting for the judge to return from a long break when I saw this (PDF) on the state’s table for young prosecutors. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 11:19 am
When I saw that Scott Greenfield had said, “so long and thanks for all the fish,” I asked on Twitter, “Any truth to the rumor that this is part of @ScottGreenfield’s settlement with Rakofsky? [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 2:11 pm
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12 Feb 2012, 1:57 pm
When Anonymous stole criminal-defense firm Puckett and Faraj’s email communications, it claimed that the theft (and defacement of the firm’s website) was “part of our ongoing efforts to expose the corruption of the court systems and the brutality of US imperialism,” contrasting Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich’s reduced charges with Bradley Manning’s prosecution. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 8:17 pm
What I did does not remotely approach the level of what I would consider an investigation. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 6:51 pm
It started with a couple of sentences on Houston criminal-defense firm Stradley Chernoff & Alford’s website: The jail personnel, especially in Harris County, seem to take a perverse pleasure in making the jail visit as unpleasant as possible. [read post]
