Three Opinions

Kelly Siegler is behind 4-1 in the informal poll I’ve conducted down at the courthouse this week of people whose continued employment doesn’t depend on Kelly Siegler’s election.
• A former Harris County prosecutor (now a prosecutor elsewhere) who served in Judge Lykos’s court would vote for Pat Lykos over Kelly Siegler, whom he describes as [...]

Happy Birthday

Today is anonymous Connecticut public defender Gideon’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Gideon.
On Gideon’s birthday last year, I wrote this post. It was five days later that I really got up a full head of steam and started blogging. 581 posts, 108,155 page loads, 68,549 unique visitors, 21,852 returning visitors, and 1,541 comments (the first of which [...]

The Defense Investigator

In a comment to my “Who Are You” poll post, reader Sean Shopes writes:

While I checked the “non-lawyer, elsewhere” box I thought I’d chime in as a criminal defense professional - I am a defense investigator in San Francisco. I am curious about your thoughts regarding defense investigators (to include Public Defender Investigators as well [...]

Ignorant or Arrogant?

There are many reasons people commit crimes: addiction, anger, avarice, arrogance, fear, ignorance, and disease, to name just a few. Typically more than one reason can be identified for the commission of a particular crime. Addiction and avarice, for example, or ignorance and fear.
Arrogance can cause crime if a person know that the rules apply [...]

Lykos Busted

Over at Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, my evil twin has caught DA candidate (and former judge) Patricia Lykos in a lie. Not just a lie, but a whopper — Lykos publicly claimed (in the KHOU Debate) not to have sought the campaign support of police organizations, less than six weeks after [...]

Another Poll: Who Are You

Who reads Defending People?

The Values Poll

What do Defending People readers value most? I know I left out a bunch of possibilities (love, honor, respect, order . . .); please choose the best fit out of the four options I’ve given you.
And by all means drop me a comment.

Share Your Opinion on the WoD

Via Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyer Robert Guest, the pro-War-on-Poor-People Drug Free America Foundation’s poll on whether drug use is a victimless crime. As Robert notes, 2/3 of the poll’s respondents agree or agree strongly.
I voted for “Strongly agree. What a user chooses to do themselves is no one’s business.” But three of the other choices [...]

Lost Patience

He came to me with a real legal mess, and I steered him through it. Not a magic-wand result, but a favorable agreed resolution that included a misdemeanor probation in felony court.

Anonymous Bloggers

I’m in favor of people in sensitive positions being able to blog anonymously so that they can bring us insights that we wouldn’t otherwise [edit: receive]. But — and maybe this is just me — I think if you’re going to blog anonymously you should treat people with at least as much respect as you [...]

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