Defending People

KHOU-TV put up PDFs of some of Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal’s emails here and here. It turns out that Chuck uses (or was using) the email address “l’etat@dao.hctx.net”. How very Louis XIV.

Here’s a little treasure, HR 1955, The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, which passed the House of Representatives in October “under a suspension of the rules to cut debate short and pass the bill.” (PDF.)
Others see it as sinister; I don’t . . . yet. It would merely create a “National [...]

The state is bad — wasteful, inefficient, and incompetent — at almost everything it tries to do. There are two exceptions that I can think of:

First, making war, which is the application of violence against the citizens of another state.
Second, prosecuting crimes, which is the application of violence against its own citizens.

If it doesn’t have [...]

This came out today, in response to the events I discussed here:

For Immediate Release:

Contact: Chuck Rosenthal
Friday, December 28, 2007
713-755-5810
Statement by Chuck Rosenthal
Recently some Harris County District Attorney inner office emails have been released in the media.
I understand that I have said some things that have [...]

My friend Scott Greenfield has tagged me for the Second Annual Lawyers Appreciate Meme, which started at Life at the Bar.
I appreciate the U.S. Constitution.
The Founders knew — from direct experience — that government is a threat to freedom. The saw that government was necessary, though, or at least inevitable. So, rather than leave the [...]

I am not one inclined to judge the morals of others. Who a prosecutor is lusting after (committing “adultery in his heart”, as Jimmy Carter might say) is not something I consider to be my business, or anyone else’s, except . . .
Except that the prosecutor in question is the individual who orders the DA’s [...]

Don’t forget to check out the Blawg Council Wiki and add to the catalog of blawgs. Someone had the right idea with CrimLaw — he added it to the catalog page for prosecutors’ blawgs and created a page describing it (though, now that I look at it, the creation of a page describing it may [...]