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8 Dec 2011, 6:21 pm
A couple of people have emailed to ask me my opinion of this story: Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn’t a Journalist, Concludes U.S. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 4:05 pm
While not confirming some of the details, the TSA said a preliminary review shows officers followed the agency’s procedures in both cases. [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Now that Congress has repealed the Fifth Amendment, can you please join me in recognizing that this country is on a rocket-sled to totalitarianism?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]
3 Dec 2011, 7:22 pm
Murray Newman, in Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center: The Legality of D.I.V.E.R.T. writes: The 14th Court of Appeals ruled that the Defendant was not entitled to a different judge than Judge Harmon, because Judge Harmon was correctly following the law when he refused to participate in DIVERT's pre-trial diversion program. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 5:07 pm
Retired Judge Don Burgess, formerly of the Beaumont Court of Appeals, has been appointed (order—PDF) by Olen Underwood, Presiding Judge of the Second Administrative Judicial Region of Texas, to hear the contempt cases against the two prosecutors and two court reporters whom Judge Susan Brown of the 185th District Court accused (frivolously, in my opinion) of contempt. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 11:05 am
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 11:01 am
Matt Brown would have missed out. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 8:57 am
Last Tuesday six police unions announced a vote of no confidence in Harris County DA Pat Lykos. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 7:19 pm
Yesterday Harris County District Clerk Chris Daniel invited me to preview the District Clerk’s new efiling system for pleadings in criminal cases, FREEfax. [read post]
20 Nov 2011, 3:30 pm
It would, as Alexis Madrigal points out at The Atlantic, be a mistake to think that this is all about Lt. [read post]
20 Nov 2011, 2:43 pm
When I read, at Simple Justice, commenters’ rationalization of a grad student’s failure to act when he saw a ten-year-old boy being raped by a football coach—typical of which was this: I would like to point out that Mike McQueary was a graduate student back then. [read post]
19 Nov 2011, 7:52 am
Appellate Squawk. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 5:52 pm
A jury acquitted Crystal Desormeaux of capital murder. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 5:52 pm
A jury acquitted Crystal Desormeaux of capital murder. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 7:44 pm
Before we try tough cases clients often ask, “if things don’t go well, we can appeal, right? [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 7:53 pm
[Update: I got a call this morning from Jim Leitner of the DA's Office. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 12:14 pm
I didn’t go to the 185th for the hearing yesterday, but Murray Newman, Paul Kennedy, and Mr. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 10:17 am
An introduction to neurolaw, from David Eagleman of Baylor College of Medicine: Eagleman teaches a seminar on the subject at Rice University; I’m signing up. [read post]
6 Nov 2011, 11:45 am
[Update 7 November 2011, 9:32 a.m.: Murray was half-right, and I was half-right: the lawyer for one of the alleged contemnors (not the DA's Office) reportedly (according to Paul Kennedy on Twitter) filed a motion to recuse. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 7:24 pm
Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams spoke out through his lawyer today, questioning his daughter’s motives for releasing a video that amassed millions of hits on YouTube, sparked a national debate about child discipline, and thrust his family’s personal turmoil into public scrutiny. [read post]
