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19 Nov 2011, 7:52 am
Appellate Squawk. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 8:04 pm
[A] good-faith, case-by-case, consequential ethics approach should be used that balances the greatest good for the greatest number without trampling unduly on individual rights and each citizen’s constitutionally protected liberty interests. [read post]
15 May 2012, 9:30 pm
On Friday morning at 9am, please join me and other freedom fighters at METRO headquarters, 1900 Main Street, Second Floor, to continue the discussion with METRO about METRO police chief Victor Rodriguez’s inviting TSA VIPR teams into our community. [read post]
15 May 2012, 9:08 pm
The position of most adherents of the death penalty is that there are enough procedural safeguards built into the system that nobody has ever been executed for a crime he did not commit, and that the probability that someone factually innocent could be executed is so small that it does not merit chucking the penalty altogether. [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]
8 Jun 2010, 2:41 pm
I suspect that there are tens of thousands in the U.S.: disaffected young men and women who like to see themselves as willing to kill for their beliefs, whatever those beliefs. [read post]
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]
