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Reader Trafficnerd gave us a few links to pages about the HPD’s DEA-funded PlateScan Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems.
None of them, oddly enough, mention the DEA funding that Officer Friendly told me about.
Here, though, is Houston HIDTA (High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force) director Stan Furce’s “So, you want an LPR” article from [...]
Mark Bennett | September 26, 2008
From Simple Justice:
People are scared to death of what will happen to them and their families, and they struggle to make sense of the mass confusion in Washington, Wall Street and the thousand pundit voices that tell a completely difference story every 30 seconds.
And so, in times of turmoil, we return to the work of [...]
Mark Bennett | September 25, 2008
A message from one of my Facebook friends, a fellow MOB trumpet player who is now a lawyer an attorney in Chicago:
Today is the second post by you about jail or court in a few weeks. If you have a serious issue and need help finding good counsel pls let me know.
Mark Bennett | September 24, 2008
According to Officer Friendly, those are DEA-supplied license-plate reading cameras mounted to the trunk of the patrol car.
I don’t like it, but it’s good for business — my business — I suppose.
Mark Bennett | September 23, 2008
While both a prosecutor and a defense lawyer will bend over backwards to help their friends, the fundamental character difference between a prosecutor and a defense lawyer is that the defense lawyer will bend over backwards to help yours.
This morning a prosecutor admitted reading my blog (welcome!) and protested that I generalize too much about [...]
Mark Bennett | September 22, 2008
Seven Hundred Billion Dollars and xx/oo cents.
I can’t understand why it’s better for the U.S. taxpayer to buy more than two-thirds of a trillion dollars of bad debt, than to fill in the hole that the banks dug for themselves, with the banks still at the bottom of it. It’s clearly above my pay grade, [...]
Mark Bennett | September 22, 2008
This is a picture from the American Embassy School of New Delhi, India’s class of 1987 Senior Skip Day. Facebook is awesome.
(Again, the guy on the far right is not me.)
Mark Bennett | September 22, 2008
26th Street Bar Association and Bad Court Thingy both wrote about an Illinois lawyer, who’s been suspended from the practice of law for 15 months for accepting $534 worth of nude dances as partial payment for $7,000 worth of legal fees in 2001 and 2002.
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission found that agreeing to [...]
Mark Bennett | September 22, 2008
Mark Bennett | September 20, 2008
When new criminal defense lawyers ask me about joining criminal defense lawyers’ associations, I advise them to join their local criminal defense lawyers’ associations (unless “local” means Austin, Texas) first, and then the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In Texas, at least, the state organization is a distant third.
The national association, NACDL, has a [...]
