Comments on: I Would Bet That It Has http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/i-would-bet-that-it-has.html the tao of criminal defense trial lawyering Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: austindefender » Probation revocations, and another lol moment http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/i-would-bet-that-it-has.html/comment-page-1#comment-6417 austindefender » Probation revocations, and another lol moment Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:43:08 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/i-would-bet-that-it-has.html#comment-6417 [...] jail.  (Did you know they tape every outgoing call from Travis County Jail?  They do.)  (And not just Travis [...] [...] jail.  (Did you know they tape every outgoing call from Travis County Jail?  They do.)  (And not just Travis [...]

]]> By: Michael http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/i-would-bet-that-it-has.html/comment-page-1#comment-6400 Michael Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:30:24 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/i-would-bet-that-it-has.html#comment-6400 One thing I don't like about newspaper articles on prosecutorial misconduct is they don't mention the names of the prosecutors. This article did mention them, once: Brad Weissman and Julie Vogel. I would have put their names in every paragraph. How can a prosecutor claim, with a straight face, that a prisoner's saying "yes" to a canned tape on a jail phone constitutes a waiver of attorney-client privilege? What happens to an attorney who, presumably, passed the MPRE at one time, but now places more importance on winning than on behaving ethically? And then failing to disclose to defense counsel that they had listened to him discuss strategy with his client? The judge regretted that the prosecutors didn't act with common sense; how about common decency? IMHO Weissman and Vogel are amoral psychopaths. The Florida Bar should go after their license. And for the sake of everything holy, Judge, why haven't you discharged this poor jury yet? One thing I don’t like about newspaper articles on prosecutorial misconduct is they don’t mention the names of the prosecutors. This article did mention them, once: Brad Weissman and Julie Vogel. I would have put their names in every paragraph. How can a prosecutor claim, with a straight face, that a prisoner’s saying “yes” to a canned tape on a jail phone constitutes a waiver of attorney-client privilege? What happens to an attorney who, presumably, passed the MPRE at one time, but now places more importance on winning than on behaving ethically? And then failing to disclose to defense counsel that they had listened to him discuss strategy with his client? The judge regretted that the prosecutors didn’t act with common sense; how about common decency?

IMHO Weissman and Vogel are amoral psychopaths. The Florida Bar should go after their license. And for the sake of everything holy, Judge, why haven’t you discharged this poor jury yet?

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