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		<title>Why is the Trial Lawyers College Afraid of these Three Women?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three really smart creative empathetic lawyers—Joane Garcia-Colson, Mary Peckham, and Fredilyn Sison—are directing a four-day Trial Boot Camp in Palm Springs, California from May 13 to May 16, 2010. Tuition is $750. I know these women well from the Trial Lawyers College and psychodrama workshops, and I recommend their boot camp highly to women trial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two New Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two blogs recently added to the blogroll:
Liberty and Justice for Y&#8217;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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students&#8217; Responses to Judge Standley&#8217;s Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clear Springs High School students&#8217; responses to the folderol surrounding Judge Standley&#8217;s talk at their school last week (from Facebook):


Mickey Carr These are some of my friend&#8217;s replies (from clear springs students) when I asked what had happened and from other friend&#8217;s status updates as well, I didn&#8217;t put their name up here, but once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2010/03/students-responses-to-judge-standleys-talk.html</link>
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		<title>Subpoenaing Out-Of-State Witnesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I seem to have become the go-to guy for out-of-state lawyers trying to get Harris County witnesses subpoenaed to trial out-of-state. This is sort of a see-one-do-one-teach-one procedure, and I&#8217;ve done five, so it&#8217;s time for me to pass on what I know.
The procedure is contained in the Uniform Act to Secure Attendance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Standley and the MADDing Crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Defending People readers know that I am not fond of MADD. There are huge opportunity costs and unintended consequences inherent in a single-issue advocacy organization having the political power that MADD has.
Now, using a little bit of that stick to bring a county criminal court judge in to talk to high school juniors about driving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2010/03/judge-standley-and-the-madding-crowd.html</link>
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		<title>Crazy Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we&#8217;re on the topic of stupid blog tricks, I got this telephone call yesterday: &#8220;I was just googling my name, and I saw it on your blog. I want you to remove it.&#8221;
Um . . . okay. Who is this?
&#8220;Jeff Deutsch. &#8220;
I know who Jeff Deutsch is. Jeff writes the excellent but sporadic Building [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2010/03/crazy-days.html</link>
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		<title>Tried to Comment on Texas Lawyer Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tried to leave a comment on Texas Lawyer magazine&#8217;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&#8217;s blog. To publish  it, I need your written permission, full name and city, all of which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2010/03/tried-to-comment-on-texas-lawyer-blog.html</link>
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		<title>Judge Fine and the Chronicle Back Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Houston judge who ruled last week that the proceedings surrounding the Texas death penalty are unconstitutional rescinded his ruling this  morning to schedule a hearing for lawyers on both sides to submit  arguments on the issue.
(Houston Chronicle, from which the Keirnan and Allen quotes below also come)
While I wasn&#8217;t able to attend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2010/03/judge-fine-and-the-chronicle-back-off.html</link>
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		<title>Go Go Godzilla</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a conversation recently with a woman who had accused her husband  of hitting her. I was explaining her position in the criminal case: &#8220;You won&#8217;t have a lawyer, since you&#8217;re not a party. You&#8217;re a witness.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m  not a witness,&#8221; she replied indignantly, &#8220;I&#8217;m a victim.&#8221;
This is, I&#8217;m afraid, the spirit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2010/03/go-go-godzilla.html</link>
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		<title>Parsing the Made-Up News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, Fine clarified that he declared the procedures Texas has in  place to carry out the death penalty unconstitutional, a legal parsing  even to the prosecutors trying the case.
The Houston Chronicle clings doggedly to the false proposition that Kevin Fine &#8220;declared the death penalty unconstitutional Thursday.&#8221; On Friday Judge Fine clarified why he [...]]]></description>
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