Feb 4th, 2008
There’s an interesting argument discussion at Life at the Harris County CJC about the role of compassion in prosecution. Commenter PJ says:
We don’t need righteous DA’s doing “battle” with “criminals.” We need people serving the public fairly, with at least some degree of understanding and compassion from whence “criminals” come.
Commenter anonymous c responds:
You think that [...]
Feb 3rd, 2008
Here is a thought-provoking little piece on Tom Kirkendall’s Houston’s Clear Thinkers blog about whether Chuck Rosenthal is in fact facing jail time for contempt in Judge Hoyt’s court.
The contempt proceeding is for indirect criminal contempt. It’s “indirect” because Chuck didn’t commit contempt right in front of Judge Hoyt, and it’s “criminal” because the contempt [...]
I’ve changed my settings to disallow comments from anonymous commenters. If you want to comment, you’ll have to have at least a pseudonym.
Feb 2nd, 2008
The Harris County District Judges are trying to avoid answering my Rule 12 open-records request.
I need an expert on Microsoft Exchange Server. Specifically, I need someone to tell me (a) how difficult it would be to restore the server contents as of a specific date and search for emails from 22 individual mailboxes; (b) whether [...]
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Edit: Don’t give KHOU your opinion on whether the debate should be televised. They get it.
Here, for the open records fans, are the Harris County Sheriff’s recent email retention policy change memo and a flowchart showing how HCSO emails are handled.
A Canadian study of athletes who have suffered “mild” traumatic brain injuries “suggests depression is actually a physical outcome of such head injuries.” Read this in conjunction with the American troop study suggesting that post-traumatic stress disorder also is an outcome of TBIs.
Why does it matter to us? Because the more people understand how incidents [...]
Feb 1st, 2008
Interesting article in yesterday’s New England Journal of Medicine about new research into PTSD, depression, and physical health problems in U.S. troops who have suffered “mild” traumatic brain injuries. (”Mild traumatic brain injury” sounds benign, but MTBIs are “mild” only in comparison with more severe brain injuries.)
In this study, mild traumatic brain injury was significantly [...]
This came after I shut my laptop because of low battery power:
Judge Hoyt: Aren’t there rules about preservation of documents at the state level?
Chuck Rosenthal: Yes.
Hoyt: In fact it can be a crime. It’s called obstruction of justice at the federal level. What do you call it at the state level?
Rosenthal: Tampering with evidence.
Hoyt: And [...]
News from an anonymous source who has provided reliable information in the past:
Last night [1/31/08] at Live Sports Bar at Main and Preston, a pep rally-type meeting was held for the Siegler campagn. Apparently the subject and purpose of the meeting was to brainstorm and get motivated on how to counteract the stream of negative [...]