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The UCC: Ban it Fully, or Not at All.

Mark Bennett | June 30, 2009

I got a letter from a Texas prison last week: contraband had been confiscated from an inmate (not a client) after arriving in an envelope with my return address on it. The contraband was described as “two UCC Packets.”
After dashing off a cross letter to the warden about people using my return address to send [...]

Also Heard at the Courthouse

Mark Bennett | July 1, 2008

I’ve had many potential clients tell me that they had taken deferred adjudication probation because their lawyers (and, in some cases, judges) had told them that deferred adjudication would not appear on their records. I’ve long ascribed this to miscommunication — to criminal defense lawyers telling the literal but misleading truth about deferred adjudication (that [...]