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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 [...]

It Might Just Work

Mark Bennett | May 5, 2008

While I was contemplating the six-thousand-year-old theropod and sauropod tracks on Mr. McFall’s farm over the weekend, Dallas D.A. Craig Watkins came out in favor of summarily executing prosecutors who concealed exculpatory evidence . . . well, actually just hitting them with bar sanctions and maybe criminal prosecution. Lots of folks had something to say [...]