The Wolf and the Yarmulke

The Juish (as Kelly Siegler might say) witness whom DA candidate Pat Lykos ordered to remove his yarmulke writes in to AHCL’s blog.

Trial Lawyers and Litigators

AHCL keeps taking Pat Lykos to task for calling herself a “litigator” when she has, as far as anyone can tell, never actually tried a case of any sort, much less a criminal case.
I think the fact that Lykos calls herself a “litigator” is the best evidence that she has, in fact, never tried a [...]

Four Nasty Little Surprises

I recently mentioned that part of being prepared for trial is having “nasty surprises for the State prepared.” For each of the cases I have set for trial, I have an NLS prepared. Often the Nasty Little Surprise (”NLS”) is the cornerstone of the successful defense of a criminal case.
An NLS can be a piece [...]

More of Dean and Me on the Marconi

The other half of my appearance on the anti-drugwar radio show “Cultural Baggage” with Dean Becker, February 20th on Pacifica station KPFT. (Transcript.)

Here is the previously-posted first half, and the transcript.

Siegler Video is Up

I finally got the video of Kelly Siegler and Murray Newman’s appearance on Reasonable Doubt up and running. It’s not as high-res as I would like, but it’s watchable.
Now stop bugging me.

Wednesday Evening Staff Meeting

Attention Houston-area criminal defense lawyers:
Back in The Day, before blogs (when I was a much younger lawyer) six or seven of us would gather at Jim Skelton’s office on Richmond Avenue every Wednesday evening to discuss our cases with each other and with Jim.
My recollections of those sessions are fuzzy; there may have been beverages [...]

Siegler Reasonable Doubt Video

I keep trying to upload the video of the February 21st Reasonable Doubt with Kelly Siegler and Murray Newman to Google Videos using the Google Video Uploader. The upload seems to go smoothly (I’ve tried several times with different video formats), but the video never appears in my list of uploaded videos.
I can’t figure out [...]

New York is Definitely Different

The world of the New York criminal defense lawyer is very different from that of the Houston criminal defense lawyer; these differences go deeper than just the much greater number of cases that Texas lawyers try to juries. Scott Greenfield, writes about the plea offers mailed to 60 of the 62 alleged Gambino defendants in [...]

The Best Free Show in Town

If you find yourself downtown between 9:30 and noon on a weekday morning, drop by Judge Larry Standley’s court, Harris County Criminal Court at Law Number 6, on the 9th floor of the Harris County Criminal Justice Center at 1201 Franklin Street (at the corner of San Jacinto).
Judge Standley genuinely cares about the defendants appearing [...]

Carry Me

I’ve written before about the annoying (and unexceptional) experience of being set for trial, coming to court prepared for trial, and then having the trial continued or reset because the State is not ready, or the court wants to do something else, or the court reporter is out sick.
Slightly more irksome is going to court [...]

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