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3 Aug 2012, 8:39 pm
Judge Mike Fields of Harris County Criminal Court at Law Number Fourteen, has announced a new docket policy: At arraignment a defendant with counsel,will be reset for four months for motions; After the motions setting the defendant is set for a plea in thirty days or a trial in sixty. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 7:25 pm
Today I went into court to pick a jury. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 2:58 pm
There’s a cause for all sorts of human conduct, just exactly as there’s a cause for all the physical actions of the universe. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 12:33 pm
Via Liberty and Justice for Y’all, In Re Escamilla (PDF), in which the Travis County Attorney (Escamilla, who is the elected official responsible for prosecuting misdemeanor cases in that county) filed a mandamus against a judge for allowing a defendant to plead open (that is, without an agreed recommendation) to the judge without the state’s consent. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 6:30 pm
Synchronicity. [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 12:54 pm
Sample question for the Texas Board of Legal Specialization board-certification exam in criminal law: Defendant Dillon committed a bank robbery on January 1, 2004. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 8:19 pm
The British guy charged with aiding his wife’s suicide and represented by Dionne Press (who tried to get the DA’s Offfice to file charges against me or grieve me for offering to help him for free) has now been sitting in jail for 30 days. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 8:02 pm
Something about Mark Draughn of WindyPundit: I recently had a problem in federal court: my client had been ordered to pay restitution for a bank robbery, and had been made jointly and severally liable with his five coactors. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 7:08 pm
Crime and Federalism‘s tagline: “Because everything I was ever told is a lie. [read post]
29 Jul 2012, 5:12 pm
Here’s how this story ended in Canada: “It’s just a kid who made some bad choices. [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 12:16 pm
Let me sum up: Jim’s client is Paul’s client’s mistress. [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 11:49 am
This opinion piece in the NYT by John Monterosso and Barry Schwartz doesn’t support the conclusions that the authors want us to reach: It is crucial that as a society, we learn how to think more clearly about causes and personal responsibility — not only for extraordinary actions like crime but also for ordinary ones, like maintaining exercise regimens, eating sensibly and saving for retirement [an exhortation "to think more clearly" is unlikely to draw any objection]. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 9:55 pm
Other old business, from the archives… Kansas appellate PD "S" writes at Preaching to the Choir: I don't begrudge my colleagues in private practice from earning a living and charging a fair fee for their work. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 3:41 pm
Since I suspended regular blogging in favor of 928 repair, a couple of my old stories have needed updating. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 7:58 pm
Longtime commenter Thomas Griffiths writes, in response to my efforts to represent, pro bono, the British guy charged with aiding his wife’s suicide: Honestly, I’m friggin baffled by one of my public heroes’ actions. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 7:58 pm
Longtime commenter Thomas Griffiths writes, in response to my efforts to represent, pro bono, the British guy charged with aiding his wife’s suicide: Honestly, I’m friggin baffled by one of my public heroes’ actions. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 7:37 pm
When an airline’s pilots suffer from seizures, its flight attendants are sociopaths, its mechanics are drunks, and its flights are as likely to end in a fireball as in a smooth landing, conscientious airline employees have a duty to warn the public. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 7:56 pm
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about this British guy who has (as of today) been sitting in the Harris County Jail for more than three weeks, charged by complaint with the class C misdemeanor of aiding suicide. [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 11:38 am
All these years I’ve been fighting comment spam by marking it as spam and calling out the responsible lawyers. [read post]
