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Two New Blogs

Mark Bennett | March 14, 2010

Two blogs recently added to the blogroll:
Liberty and Justice for Y’all—Texas criminal law mostly-anonymous (except for front man B.W. Barnett) group blog. They are writing for a Texas-criminal-law-savvy audience so far, but they’re just getting warmed up.
Trial Theory—Trial practice group blog. TLC grads Bobby Frederick (of the South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog), Paul J. Smith [...]

Tried to Comment on Texas Lawyer Blog

Mark Bennett | March 9, 2010

I tried to leave a comment on Texas Lawyer magazine’s Tex Parte Blog. I got this in my email from the Managing Editor of Texas Lawyer:
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment on Texas Lawyer’s blog. To publish it, I need your written permission, full name and city, all of which [...]

Google Blog Bundle

Mark Bennett | February 1, 2010

42 criminal defense blogs.

Two Things to Read Today

Mark Bennett | December 30, 2009

When I met Norm Pattis in Wyoming in ‘99, I knew: here is another lawyer smarter than me. If you’re a criminal defense lawyer, or if you want to be a criminal defense lawyer, read Norm’s terrific Another Year in the Trenches.
Jeff Gamso’s is, hands down, the best new criminal law blog of 2009. After [...]

The First Annual Bloggers’ Best Awards

Mark Bennett | December 11, 2009

If you have a blog and agree that blog popularity contest are jokes, please join me at Social Media Tyro in choosing the best law blogs of 2009, and spread the word.
Thank you.

New Blog on the Blogroll

Mark Bennett | November 7, 2009

Law and Baseball, by criminal defense lawyer Johnny Gardner, from Bobby Frederick’s stomping grounds of Horry County, South Carolina.

On Behalf of Matt Brown, You’re Welcome.

Mark Bennett | November 3, 2009

David DeCosta was set up, to begin with: set up by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and the Phoenix Police Department, and almost certainly factually innocent.
Phoenix criminal defense lawyer Matt Brown didn’t know that at first, but he found the story of DeCosta’s arrest for allegedly trying to sneak drugs to Jesse Alejandro interesting enough [...]

Stuff I Don’t Want to Miss Mentioning

Mark Bennett | October 30, 2009

Scott Greenfield makes the world a little safer for blawgers (via Houston criminal defense lawyer Paul Kennedy).
RIP John O’Quinn. A great lawyer and, like many great lawyers, not without personal demons (Rick O’Casey, Houston Chronicle).
Memo from Pat Lykos to Harris County prosecutors: if you violate Batson you’re “incompetent;” if you violate Brady it’s the defense’s [...]

I’m Not Sure What to Think About . . .

Mark Bennett | October 18, 2009

. . . Houston criminal defense lawyer Cole Brooks’s new blog. I’m glad to see another Houston criminal defense lawyer jump into the practical blawgosphere (even if he isn’t a member of HCCLA . . . hint, hint), and Cole’s blog isn’t blatant “I’m great! hire me!” marketing, but so far it’s heavy on explications [...]

The Jew With a Gun Next Door

Mark Bennett | October 17, 2009

A couple of years ago (!) I wrote about mapping the blogosphere as a metaphorical space, with proximity measured by commonality of interest as represented by mutual links.
Today New York criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield has a nice profile today of one of our virtual neighbors, Minneapolis renaissance man Joel “Jdog” Rosenberg. Not a [...]