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Houston criminal defense lawyer Sharon Levine has passed away.
Sharon was a great and caring warrior for each of her clients, but the case for which she’ll always be remembered in the Houston criminal defense community was a piddly little class B misdemeanor evading arrest case of little interest to anyone but her and her [...]
Mark Bennett | December 7, 2008
The Honorable Devon Anderson and the Honorable Brock Thomas will be joining the Houston criminal defense bar after their tenures end in January. I knew and had a case against each when they were prosecutors before they were judges, so it won’t be the least bit weird calling them “Devon” and “Brock” again.
I hope for [...]
Mark Bennett | December 4, 2008
I am not subject to political hatchet jobs. (Watch the video. Then read Houston soon-to-be criminal defense lawyer Murray Newman’s (F/K/A “AHCL”) posts on the firings here and here.)
Mark Bennett | November 25, 2008
Down at the criminal courthouse, the prosecutors are hard at work: updating their résumés. All Harris County Assistant District Attorneys, from the lowliest misdemeanor four to the most entrenched division chief, have been told by the incoming management to do so. (I couldn’t make this stuff up.)
Wow! That’ll be great for morale!
I will be [...]
Mark Bennett | November 24, 2008
My Civil (and Prosecutorial) Friends,
I know times are tough. The Republicans have gutted the civil justice system through tort deform. Family law and probate law and real estate law clients don’t have the money that they once had to spend on lawyers. Even in Houston, the economy is slowing down. I sympathize. Really, I do.
But [...]
