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16 Jul 2010, 11:14 am
I get to deal with a whole lot of crazy at work. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 2:57 pm
Back in March (sometimes posts percolate for a few months before bubbling to the surface) Norm Pattis wrote something about about Gerry Spence that caught my attention. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 12:41 pm
NOTE TO JUDGES, JUDICIAL CANDIDATES, AND OTHER READERS WHOSE IQs MIGHT FALL ONE STANDARD DEVIATION OR MORE BENEATH THE NORM: THESE ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 8:00 am
I like the idea of a public defender’s office, but the idea of Commissioners’ Court, Harris County’s executive board, controlling, through the power of the purse, the defense function is little more appealing than the current ad hoc system of appointment of indigent counsel by elected judges. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 5:44 pm
Word is that Alex Bunin, Harris County’s first Public Defender, has chosen Bob Wicoff to head his appellate division, and that they have offered positions as assistant PDs to Melissa Martin, Jani Maselli, and Sarah “Bennett’s Brain” Wood. [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]
15 Sep 2010, 12:08 pm
The topic is the “Trench Menu” meme—the posting on Twitter by criminal defense lawyers of one-line summaries of their days. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 12:25 pm
I think the Apostle John might have left it out of Revelations, but isn’t one of the signs of the pending Apocalypse (or at least TEOTWAWKI) that the only person in Washington DC making any sense is Ron Paul? [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]
27 Dec 2010, 11:20 am
A backlog of thousands of Texas court cases. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 9:00 pm
I've known Sparta Townson for years, since she was Sparta Komissarova with Martindale-Hubbell / Lawyers.com (in unholy alliance at the time with LexisNexis). [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 12:09 pm
Ellen Alexander (the nicest person in the courthouse, and not just in contrast to her judge, who’s a grump [but only to criminals, and fools, and the unprepared]) is once again raising money for the University of Texas M.D. [read post]
1 Jan 2012, 1:15 pm
© 2011 Ruben Bollin @rubenbolling Copyright © 2010 Mark Bennett. [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]
21 Oct 2010, 9:03 pm
Here are the rules—by court order and coerced “agreement”—by which a Texas sex offender has to live for the rest of his life, even after he has served his entire prison sentences, if some hack psychologist doesn’t want him in his neighborhood and so testified, because of consequential ethics, that the offender is likely to engage in a predatory act of sexual violence: Texas Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment Conditions If you’re an ordinary person, you… [read post]
17 Jul 2011, 6:54 pm
I get it: if you disrespect the TSA authoritah, you will get arrested. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 6:08 pm
There is a leadership vacuum in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. [read post]
31 May 2012, 5:21 am
Ken at Popehat, writing about attacks on critics of Speedway Bomber Brett Kimberlin: This is about everybody’s rights, not just the rights and interests of “conservatives” or any other political group. [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 9:12 pm
Yesterday: Mark , As I mentioned Monday, I am hosting a free teleseminar on August 10, 2011 entitled: “How to Double Your Criminal Defense Practice Income Without Spending One Extra Hour In The Office” What I will reveal in this call will enable you to design and implement a strategy to boost your practice revenues and boost them quickly! [read post]
21 Nov 2012, 12:35 pm
Curtis Robert Burns, also known as “Blogger Bob,” the Tokyo Rose of the TSA, responded publicly—and petulantly—to Amy Alkon’s post questioning TSA thugs concealing their identities from the traveling public (which I wrote about here and Greenfield riffed on here). [read post]
