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27 Nov 2012, 3:54 pm
(H/T up front to Scott Greenfield and his ostreoid Simple Justice, in the ABA's Blawg 100 once again.) [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 1:31 pm
Texas criminal defense lawyers of old could talk to their jury panels about the Bible, and safely assume that they were talking about a common cultural framework. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 7:31 pm
Chief Disciplinary Counsel Mark DuBois regards the issue I submitted on behalf of the Twittergate Committee, composed of a few bloggers who felt strongly about the controversy mentioned above, as frivolous, suggesting that both I and Mark Bennett have too much time on our hands. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 5:31 pm
I am opposed to employers holding the fact of petty non-moral-turpitude convictions against job applicants. [read post]
18 May 2011, 3:20 pm
On Monday, I was hired by a man’s father to represent the man on a serious felony case. [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 2010, 4:41 am
At the request of a colleague out of state, I put the call out on a Texaswide criminal defense listserv for the names of some lawyers who would be good to handle a felony drug case in a faraway Texas small town. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 2:38 pm
Marketer Rachel Rodgers, in her dwindling fifteen minutes of blawgospheric fame, writes: In conclusion, my point is this: Experienced attorneys stop trying to scare young lawyers half to death with your scary ethics anecdotes about lawyers who were disbarred or suspended due to unethical behavior. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 2:20 pm
I admit it: I was wrong. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 7:39 pm
In the markets of South and Southeast Asia, where I learned to haggle, one of the gambits used by vendors is to claim that the offered price has to be accepted right now: “for you, today only, fifteen Rupees! [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 2:42 pm
Just the facts: On the 29th of August I got in the mail the State’s Motion to Disclose Experts in a case set for trial next Tuesday. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 11:30 am
Law student Laura McWilliams, blogging at Really? [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 7:23 am
Joel Rosenberg, father, husband, science-fiction writer, second-amendment advocate, habitué of the blawgoshphere, rouser of rabble, outspoken critic of police misconduct, and all-around fearless proponent of what he knew to be right, has died. [read post]
16 May 2010, 12:55 pm
NFM Copyright © 2010 Mark Bennett. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 6:48 pm
Now that Congress has repealed the Fifth Amendment, can you please join me in recognizing that this country is on a rocket-sled to totalitarianism? [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 8:25 pm
Here are some conclusions that can be drawn from Hartley’s data: In Cook County, Illinois, in 1993, convicted defendants were: 1.81 times as likely to have been released on their own recognizance if they were charged with a class 1 felony as if they were charged with a class X felony. 2.10 times as likely to wind up incarcerated if they were hispanic as if they were white. 1.46 times as likely to wind up incarcerated if they used a weapon as if they didn’t. 2.36 times as likely to wind… [read post]
9 May 2011, 3:37 pm
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2 May 2012, 5:47 pm
When we spoke to the METRO board of directors last week, it struck me that some of the things that I consider common knowledge might not be. [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]
29 Nov 2010, 2:36 pm
A hearty “thank you” to the Defending People reader who nominated this blog to the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 popularity contest. [read post]
