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12 May 2010, 8:28 pm
You get something like this in the mail, addressed to you:You know you’ve got no business with the accountancy that sent it. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 2:24 pm
Thanks to the following bloggers, and especially to our out-of-state colleagues, for weighing in on the State Bar of Texas’s attempts to amend the Disciplinary Rules and efforts to do away with flat fees: Max Kennerly, Sound And Fury Over Flat Fees, Signifying Nothing Gideon, Blawg Review #294: MLK, Jr. [read post]
18 May 2010, 4:20 pm
In 2007 years ago, when Pennsylvania decided to prosecute William Barnes 40 years after the fact for the murder of William Barclay, after Barnes had already served a prison sentence for the attempted murder of Barclay, I asked (Gideon reminds me now), "How does a conviction for attempted murder not jeopardy-bar a prosecution for murder when the victim dies? [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 9:50 pm
Those who are released on bail [I think Hartley and his colleagues mean "released on recognizance"] and represented by a private attorney are twice as [they got it right this time] likely to be incarcerated as those released on bail [again, "recognizance"] but being represented by the public defender. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 11:50 am
When I read Padilla v. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 12:49 pm
I finally got around to looking at the anonymous Lawyers on Strike blog, which Scott Greenfield, Jeff Gamso, and Mike at Crime & Federalism wrote about last week. [read post]
23 Jul 2011, 7:50 pm
Here is the advice you see before sending a comment to Bennett & Bennett via our website: This form is for potential clients to contact Bennett & Bennett. [read post]
26 Nov 2012, 4:00 pm
Is this illegal? [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 4:13 pm
Copyright © 2012 Houston criminal-defense lawyer Mark Bennett. [read post]
15 May 2011, 8:30 pm
In a great and rare example of real judicial activism, the Indiana Supreme Court has, without even being asked, outlawed something that hundreds of years of common law have allowed and the Indiana Legislature has explicitly authorized. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 3:56 pm
Patients should be able to decide what happens to them. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 5:57 pm
Last Friday 15 TSA agents joined officers of the Houston Police Department, the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the METRO Police Department, and the Precinct Seven Constable's Office in "a synchronized, counter-terrorism exercise that focused on bus stops and shelters and transit centers. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 5:49 pm
To do with it what he or she pleases. [read post]
11 Sep 2010, 2:07 pm
Courtesy of Robb Fickman, and because Greenfield loves “list” posts, 20 rules for being a criminal defense lawyer, given by Robb to Craig Still on the occasion of his leaving the DA’s Office and joining the Brethren of the Courts (annotations are mine): Craig’s List on How to be a Criminal Defense Lawyer1. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 12:02 pm
I wanted to defend Christine O’Donnell. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 11:47 am
[M]andamus relief is available only when the relator can establish two things: first, that no other adequate remedy at law is available; and second, that the act he seeks to compel is ministerial. [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]
29 Aug 2011, 2:44 pm
One of my favorite statutes, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 21.15: Art. 21.15. [read post]
17 May 2012, 7:56 am
Here’s how bonds work in Texas: D is arrested. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 10:27 pm
I’ve been on a tear about Hartley, R.D., et. al. [read post]
