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HCCLA Reasonable Doubt, March 26, 2009. Hosts Todd Dupont and Neal Davis; Guest Harris County First Assistant District Attorney Jim Leitner. (I haven’t watched it yet; tell me what you think.)
Mark Bennett | March 26, 2009
Early this morning, my telephone rang. I answered it.
Psst. Mark.
Through my REM haze: Mr. X, is that you?
Shhh. Yeah, it’s me. Listen, Mark, I’ve got something for you.
I was immediately awake — X has always provided interesting stuff in the past; some of it pure gold.
I’m listening.
Okay, Mark, here it is. Jim Leitner went [...]
Mark Bennett | March 12, 2009
I’ll be cohosting Reasonable Doubt tonight with Houston criminal defense lawyer T.B. “Todd” Dupont. Our guest will be top Houston criminal lawyer Vivian King. We’ll be streaming from 8pm CDT on HMSTV.org. Tune in and call in.
Next week’s guest will be Richard “Racehorse” Haynes (Thursday, March 19, 2009).
The following week (March 26) First Assistant District [...]
Mark Bennett | March 10, 2009
If you come here for the snark, please avert your eyes. I’m about to be nice. The blogosphere thrives on conflict, rather than niceness, so this post is not going to win me any readers. But I spend a bit of space here critical of public servants’ failure to serve the public. Rest assured that [...]
Mark Bennett | December 31, 2008
Murray Newman laments what he expects to be the loss of prosecutorial discretion in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office under the Lykos / Leitner regime.
Murray misses the old days. Ah, those glorious Rosenthal / Siegler days, when prosecutors had discretion — discretion enough to run amok. . . when 29-year-old misdemeanor chiefs with no [...]
Mark Bennett | December 23, 2008
In yet another attempt at morale-building, Pat Lykos is ordering every Harris County assistant district attorney to attend her swearing-in ceremony on January 1, 2009.
January 1, 2009 is a county holiday.
Does anyone remember the boxing video game from the ’80s? You’d hit your opponent, and the machine would say “body blow! body blow!” and then [...]
