. . . And Another 30 Days For Looking at Her Like That!

Posted on April 16, 2008
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Austin criminal defense lawyer Adam Reposa gets 90 days in jail for “making a gesture simulating masturbation while standing before County Court-at-Law Judge Jan Breland during a pretrial hearing”.

The earlier story.

(Do you think the cuffs will stop him?)

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14 Responses to “. . . And Another 30 Days For Looking at Her Like That!”

AHCL on April 16th, 2008 3:39 pm

I actually met several Travis County prosecutors a while back, and they all seemed to have a Reposa story. Apparently he relishes in the idea of being the Andrew Dice Clay of the defense bar.

Most of the stories I heard about him were pretty akin to this one.

A friend of mine went to law school with him and said he was wild back then, too.

Can you get a visual of Reposa trying a case in McSpadden’s court?
shg on April 16th, 2008 4:29 pm

We all have a guy who, whether you like him or not, just does stuff that makes you cringe. Eventually, it catches up with him. I did an amicus for one, and it was about the hardest thing I ever wrote.
AHCL on April 16th, 2008 4:43 pm

I wonder if you combine shg’s idea along with the Pozner ideas below it could be rationally deducted that if you don’t know who “that guy who makes everyone else cringe” is, it means it’s you.
Mark Bennett on April 16th, 2008 4:56 pm

You beat me to it. I was going to say that I thought it might be true that there’s one in every other county, but I don’t know of one here.
Ron in Houston on April 16th, 2008 5:10 pm

Here’s my problem with this. The judge trying to deny him bond is no worse than the guys behavior. It was beyond her jurisdiction to try to deny him bond and probably would get around her judicial immunity.

I don’t agree with what he did, but sometimes, you just need to let things go.
AHCL on April 16th, 2008 5:23 pm

Hey Mark,
Since I beat you to the punch, does that mean I can join the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
Mark Bennett on April 16th, 2008 5:32 pm

You’ll have to get the special tattoo before you’re invited to join.
Jigmeister on April 16th, 2008 5:48 pm

That’s a ludicrous sentence. Jail time may have been justified, but 90 days seems over the top. Did this judge have some exposure to his previous conduct, I wonder.
Terry on April 16th, 2008 7:49 pm

Anyone know what happened to this knucklehead’s client?
Ron in Houston on April 16th, 2008 9:06 pm

Mark

What’s your opinion: Does the judge denying him bail amount to a violation of due process that would
give him habeas relief?

That would probably be issue #1 in any brief I’d write.
El Cucuy de la Corte on April 16th, 2008 9:44 pm

As recently as a few months ago, I would have been howling with laughter at the (unintentional?) puns sprinkled in the comments on this posting. “Hardest thing I ever wrote.” “Beat me to it.” “Exposure.” But alas, now I only chuckle. Is that a sign of maturation? What next, a mortgage and a family? Yikes!
sctexas on April 17th, 2008 6:58 am

Reposa used to have a cheeseball website with him holding fistfuls of cash, and basically making him out to be a sort of Scarface Lawyer. What a tool.
Endophone on April 18th, 2008 3:16 am

Repose was sentenced to 90 days, but he wont serve it all. I’ve met lots of attorneys like Reposa. It catches up to them eventually, but they still whine about how the system is out to get ‘em. It’s never their fault. Come to think of it, most of these guys have substance abuse issues.
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