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. . . 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 [...]
Mark Bennett | April 16, 2009
Houston criminal defense / civil rights lawyer Eric J. Davis has a new blog, Sustained!. Eric is an outstanding lawyer and a good friend. (He’s also a graduate of the Trial Lawyers College, as are Paul Smith, Jon Katz, David Tarrell, Chuck Peterson, Remy Orozco, Ed Stapleton, and someone else I’m unfortunately forgetting at the [...]
Mark Bennett | March 24, 2009
New York criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield really doesn’t like the idea, but prescribes two options for “when there’s no other choice.”
Virginia prosecutor (and former criminal defense lawyer) Ken Lammers did it himself, and offers “option C: nose to the grindstone.”
Miami criminal defense lawyer Brian Tannebaum, who got himself a fancy-pants PD gig out of [...]
Mark Bennett | March 23, 2009
I wrote way back in ought-seven about how criminal defense lawyers are unembarrassable. I find my unembarrassability challenged by this: Houston lawyer Jerome Godinich has blown deadlines to file writs of habeas corpus for death row prisoners three times.
In [two of the] cases, the lawyer waited until after business hours on the last day an [...]
Mark Bennett | March 15, 2009
Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association’s “Reasonable Doubt” television show. August 7, 2008 episode with Houston criminal defense lawyers Tate Williams and Sean Buckley.
Mark Bennett | March 14, 2009
The March 12, 2009 episode of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association’s Reasonable Doubt television show. Hosts: Houston criminal lawyer Todd Dupont and me; Guest: top Houston criminal defense lawyer Vivian R. King.
Mark Bennett | March 13, 2009
Here’s last week’s Reasonable Doubt, with Houston criminal defense lawyers Neal Davis, Todd Dupont, and me. It’s sure to give any true-believer prosecutor hives.
Mark Bennett | March 8, 2009
Houston criminal lawyer Murray Newman, to his credit, comes to the defense of his friend Judge Hanger. Good for him. Somehow he finds a tenuous connection between my views on Ms. Hanger, who hasn’t (officially) been a prosecutor in years, with collegiality or the lack thereof between defense and prosecutorial bars, but he misses the [...]
Mark Bennett | March 8, 2009
Here are the Google results for:
compassionate criminal lawyer: about 124,000
truthful -truth criminal lawyer: about 148,000
tough criminal lawyer: about 315,000
creative criminal lawyer: about 319,000
aggressive criminal lawyer: about 2,290,000
Granted, these are not all lawyer websites, but there’s a Michigan lawyer with the domain name AggressiveCriminalAttorney.net, and he’s not alone in advertising his aggression. Search for “Houston criminal [...]
Mark Bennett | March 8, 2009
Ex-Judge Hanger, who went from being a “fuck-the-accused” judge in December to calling herself a criminal defense lawyer in January, is, along with her partner (also a former judge, but one with a repuation for fairness) “currently developing a new Web site with Findlaw.”
The placeholder page says, “work with a lawyer who will aggressively protect [...]
