Search for: "blog.bennettandbennett.com"
Results 441 - 460
of 530
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
16 Sep 2010, 6:17 pm
Elected Republican Calumet County, Wisconsin District Attorney Kenneth R. [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]
14 Sep 2010, 6:17 pm
Most of this year’s Harris County judicial elections are worthy of little more than a shrug. [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]
13 Sep 2010, 6:01 pm
Before the 1991 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals case of Geesa v. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 9:33 am
I’m just trying to find the best lawyer who makes me feel content. [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]
10 Sep 2010, 6:39 pm
Here’s the application paragraph of the accomplice-witness-as-a-question-of-fact jury instruction from the Harris County jury charge bank. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 11:43 am
While I’m recovering from pranging my knee I get this call: it’s from Chris Colvert at 713-447-1633, and it’s about—according to him—a new criminal case. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 9:54 am
For your perusal: Harris County misdemeanor courts, DWI statistics compared between the year ending July 31, 2010 and the previous year (roughly DIVERT and pre-DIVERT). [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 7:00 pm
Defending people should be personal. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 11:12 am
We recently had a contested election for the office of President Elect in our association. [read post]
4 Sep 2010, 4:43 pm
Who is this a picture of? [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 7:58 pm
I had just explained to the jury all the reasons that the government’s star witness couldn’t be believed (based on his criminal history): he’s a thief, and thieves lie; he’s a robber, and robbers lie; he’s an organized criminal, and organized criminals lie; etc. [read post]
29 Aug 2010, 7:42 pm
Before I euthanized my account there, I had hundreds of “friends” on Facebook. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 10:27 pm
I’ve been on a tear about Hartley, R.D., et. al. [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]
25 Aug 2010, 9:44 pm
The data for this study are from Cook County (Chicago), Illinois, and are a random sample of 2850 offenders convicted of felonies in Cook County Circuit Court. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 8:25 pm
Here are some conclusions that can be drawn from Hartley’s data: In Cook County, Illinois, in 1993, convicted defendants were: 1.81 times as likely to have been released on their own recognizance if they were charged with a class 1 felony as if they were charged with a class X felony. 2.10 times as likely to wind up incarcerated if they were hispanic as if they were white. 1.46 times as likely to wind up incarcerated if they used a weapon as if they didn’t. 2.36 times as likely to wind… [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 7:31 pm
Various readers generously sent me copies of the Hartley article I mentioned here (Hartley, R.D., et. al., Do you get what you pay for? [read post]
