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15 Apr 2011, 1:14 pm
This was the only reference to time in the search-warrant affidavit: In the past 72 hours, a confidential informant advised the Affiant that Chris was seen in possession of a large amount of methamphetamine at his residence and business. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 3:14 pm
Popehat and Abel and Draughn and Hit & Run and Kennedy and Greenfield have already visited the subject of the video of a TSA goon groping a six-year-old girl at the airport in New Orleans (insert tacky Mardi Gras bead joke here, if you absolutely must). [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]
7 Apr 2011, 11:07 am
I was making an appearance on a first DWI. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 3:14 pm
When a lawyer has possession of an illegally-obtained recording, what is she to do? [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 2:14 pm
The two choices for President-Elect of the State Bar of Texas are San Angelo personal-injury lawyer Guy Choate and Tyler criminal-defense lawyer Buck Files. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 11:04 am
To those like who want the practical blawgosphere to be the Happysphere, with no unkind words spoken about anyone (unless, as Tannebaum points out, there are no names mentioned, which makes the Happysphere more than a little passive-aggressive), the Joseph Rakofsky story should provide an object lesson. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 4:42 am
Last April Fools Day the New York Times got punked by New York blawger Eric Turkewitz, who announced that he was going to become the official White House law blogger. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 9:21 pm
Paul Kennedy asks, “How do you react when a judge asks a defendant entering a guilty plea whether or not he believes in Jesus? [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 6:34 am
Apropos of TSA, I wrote here that “it’s self-evident that one’s chances of going to prison for child molestation increase dramatically when one spends every day groping strangers. [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 12:34 pm
Colorado District Attorney Carol Chambers, who AmJured in ethics, has done Montgomery County’s Brett Ligon (edit: and Harris County’s Pat Lykos) one better: she “is offering financial incentives for felony prosecutors who meet their goals for conviction rates at trial. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 8:48 am
Here are a few ideas I’ve had for subjects that our criminal-defense skunkworks could inquire into: Facial emotion recognition as a tool in trial (see Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions From Facial Expressions); Turning the tables: criminal-interrogation techniques in cross examination (see Criminal Interrogation And Confessions); Applying the lessons of aikido to trial (see Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere: An Illustrated Introduction); Mitigation experts in non-capital cases. … [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 2:57 pm
My vision for our criminal-defense skunkworks is that each of us will choose a discipline that interests him or her, review the literature, attend classes or seminars, and try applying it in trial, all the while collaborating with the rest of us (who will have chosen different disciplines to investigate). [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 1:42 pm
I’m looking for a few good criminal-defense lawyers to advance the state of the art in criminal-defense trial lawyering. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 2:08 pm
You’ve seen this already, I’m sure: [See post to watch Flash video] It’s video of a 10th-form (as I understand it, the equivalent of 10th grade in the U.S.) kid in Australia being picked on by a vicious little 7th-form bully, while some fan of bullying shoots video. [read post]
12 Mar 2011, 1:55 pm
More from lawyer James D. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 12:26 pm
Mr. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 2:03 pm
If you want to be taken seriously, please give your agents some guidance on what is not a professional-looking business card. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 12:42 pm
University of Houston law professor Jordan Paust, who reviewed the bilateral treaty between the U.S. and Nigeria this week, said it includes a long list of offenses for which a suspect is subject to extradition, including manslaughter. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 8:14 am
The only virtue of the Court’s approach (if it can be misnamned a virtue) is that it leaves judges free to reach the “fairest” result under the totality of the circumstances. [read post]
