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25 Aug 2010, 2:36 pm
Black defendants who retain a private attorney are almost two times more likely to have the primary charge reduced than black defendants who are represented by a public defender. [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 3:32 pm
It took a little over a month. [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 3:10 pm
Divorce lawyer John Clinton, running for criminal court judge, seems to be saying that when he was a Houston police officer he “amassed years of trial experience. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 8:59 am
Houston DUI lawyer Paul Kennedy, in Going for the Gut, calls to our attention this Boston Globe article by Drake Bennett about how disgust may shape our moral judgments. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 11:20 am
It is unlawful, in Maryland, for any person to [w]ilfully intercept, endeavor to intercept, or procure any other person to intercept or endeavor to intercept, any . . .oral . . . communication[.] [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 10:30 am
In regard to the search of a place, the United States Supreme Court has consistently favored the issuance of a warrant by a neutral and detached judicial officer as a more reliable safeguard against improper searches. [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 1:52 pm
(For more of Paladin's wisdom, buy the complete first season of Have Gun, Will Travel here.) [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 12:59 pm
Every now and again some young criminal defense lawyer on some listserv will suggest that we criminal defense lawyers should "set everything for trial. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 1:33 pm
So I listed four big reasons blawgers should attribute ideas with which they disagree: For yourself; For your readers; For those with whom you disagree; and For the blawgosphere. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 6:12 pm
Clay Conrad writes: [A]lmost nobody denies that, say, executing an innocent man would be a substantive injustice. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 5:49 pm
To do with it what he or she pleases. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 11:08 am
People can’t choose what they desire, but they “choose” what they desire, and should generally be able to do what they “choose. [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 6:38 pm
We have heard talk of “justice. [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]
26 Jul 2010, 1:58 pm
Quoth Vincent Bugliosi, in a comment posted by John Kindley: ‘Everyone is entitled to be represented by an attorney’ is the idealistic chant often recited by defense attorneys as justification for representing even the most vicious criminals in our society. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 1:34 pm
When you come to an intersection with a sign like this. . . . . .and you want to make a left turn, and the light is green, do not wait behind the stop line for a break in the oncoming traffic. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 10:22 am
From the mailbag: Apparently because she wanted me to comment on it, someone named Leslie Brodie (“religious leader in the community“) sent me a copy of a grievance she filed against California Supreme Court Justice Marvin Baxter. [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]
19 Jul 2010, 12:32 pm
For my fellow law geeks: 18 USC §921, which defines terms for federal firearms crimes, defines a conviction of a “crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” in terms of state law, so a Texas deferred adjudication probation for a felony is not a conviction, and does not bar firearms possession. [read post]
16 Jul 2010, 11:14 am
I get to deal with a whole lot of crazy at work. [read post]
