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18 Jun 2010, 9:55 am
"UTMB’s Correctional Managed Care program has an agreement with Lone Star College involving its Law Enforcement Phlebotomy Program. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 2:41 pm
I suspect that there are tens of thousands in the U.S.: disaffected young men and women who like to see themselves as willing to kill for their beliefs, whatever those beliefs. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 6:45 pm
Scott Greenfield is a driving force in the criminal defense blawgosphere. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 2:57 pm
Today's Houston Chronicle has an interview with Erica Rose, a Houston socialite who is going to law school (she's a 3L at my alma mater, University of Houston) to advance her career in reality TV. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 5:00 pm
Apropos of today's earlier post about collaboration (and, ultimately, strategy) in federal drug cases: Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 1:31 pm
Texas criminal defense lawyers of old could talk to their jury panels about the Bible, and safely assume that they were talking about a common cultural framework. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 10:26 am
"Not a team sport. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 9:38 am
"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 8:06 pm
I am pleased to report that, in a process more resembling democracy than the usual oligarchy, Houston DWI lawyer Gary Trichter has been elected president-elect of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. [read post]
30 May 2010, 8:43 am
New second-career criminal defense lawyer desperately in need of a mentor Joe Attorney writes: [Reptile] is not a technique I could comfortably embrace. [read post]
28 May 2010, 9:23 pm
For some reason, it happens in May: criminal defense lawyers' fancies turn to . . . getting paid. [read post]
26 May 2010, 7:38 pm
It's hard to find Beaumont senior district court judge Larry Gist's party affiliation. [read post]
26 May 2010, 6:52 pm
Five things that make me want to cover my ears and shout "la-la-la-I'm-not-listening" over and over instead of blogging: What Texas wants to teach my kids—and yours (New York Times). [read post]
25 May 2010, 11:09 am
From a civilian’s comment on this post about “John R. [read post]
22 May 2010, 4:19 pm
Here's why I don't allow anonymous comments here: In my opinion there's only one way to reliably win for a criminal defendant at trial: you have some evidence that is devastating to the prosecution's case, you disguise it so that neither the judge nor the prosecutor knows what its significance is, you get it into evidence on some other ground, and you don't say another word about it until you close. [read post]
20 May 2010, 7:44 pm
Why have I been repeating for three years (okay, for a lot longer than that) that lawyers should not waive detention hearings without good reason and that good reason means "because having a detention hearing will prejudice the accused"? [read post]
19 May 2010, 2:11 pm
Some years ago I got a call from a bureaucrat with the federal courts here in town: would I like to help handle the illegal reentry docket? [read post]
18 May 2010, 5:52 pm
Old-time West Texas judges used to travel the circuit with a single law book (and they were still better-read than most modern Texas judges. . .). [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]
17 May 2010, 8:53 pm
I believe strongly that federal criminal trials can be won—the Government, while powerful, is not omnipotent. [read post]
