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16 Jul 2010, 9:54 am
I started writing the list that follows just to wrap my head around the array of offenses that can result in sex offender registration in Texas (with more coming every legislative session). [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 9:13 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]
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]
14 Jul 2010, 5:09 pm
Yesterday when HCCLA went to Houston’s City Hall, we learned (because the Mayor told us) that the City of Houston is working on separating the crime lab from the Houston Police Department. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 2:03 pm
Texas’s highest criminal court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, has held, in Stearnes v. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 7:30 pm
It’s not that he loves his job: I could have been a contender instead of what I am, a document review attorney. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 2:48 pm
"Watch this, Mark. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 1:58 pm
I am sorely tempted today to write about The Clown and The Snake—the incompetent, biased judge and the lying prosecutor—and use their names, creating a permanent googleable record. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 8:13 pm
After twelve days of trial and deliberation, the jury found my client guilty of tampering with physical evidence. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 12:01 pm
But I also recognize that my life experience is different from that of most African-Americans. [read post]
4 Jul 2010, 5:11 pm
"Common sense" has nothing to do with it. [read post]
4 Jul 2010, 3:53 pm
Read the Declaration of Independence (I republish it here every year). [read post]
4 Jul 2010, 2:24 pm
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 11:30 am
Law student Laura McWilliams, blogging at Really? [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 8:52 am
It doesn't matter who asks them—defense lawyers, prosecutors, cops—or whom they are asked—witnesses, the jurors themselves, defendants—jurors don't like trick questions. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 1:50 pm
(In lieu of the more complete trial journal that I should have been keeping for the last eight weekdays.) 0530: Get up. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 8:41 pm
Some numbers, perhaps of interest to nobody but me: Panel average -0.15 Struck for cause average 0 Struck by defense average -0.02 Jurors sworn average -0.20 Struck by State average -0.69 Numbers are a measure of authoritarianism/egalitarianism based on scaled answers to eight questions, chosen unscientifically—according to how interesting they were to me. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 8:23 pm
If you are a blogging lawyer, and you want to be read by other bloggers, know that being read by other bloggers includes being taken to task publicly when you write something dumb or silly or ill-considered or even just vapid. [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 8:15 pm
I've been thinking more about University of Texas Medical Branch's practice of renting out mentally ill prison inmates for cops to practice their phlebotomy against, and it seems to me that UTMB, TDCJ's medical services provider, is missing out on several other great opportunities to make money on the backs of "consenting" (consent is easy to obtain in prison—just offer a little extra privilege, something to make the time pass, to those who do what you want, and… [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 2:20 pm
I admit it: I was wrong. [read post]
