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Ethos

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 [...]

Lykos, Meet Streisand

Mark Bennett | December 24, 2008

The following was posted on Murray Newman’s blog yesterday, but after Murray was double-plus-unhired from the office he took it down. I’m reconstructing it as nearly as I can here (with my own flourish), not because I think Murray has no backbone, nor because it’s particularly good (it was created in collaboration among Murray’s commenters), [...]

Nobody Beats Up My Brother But Me

Mark Bennett | December 5, 2008

Soon-to-be Houston criminal defense lawyer Murray Newman (formerly AHCL) has written several times on his blog, Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, about the Harris County Criminal Justice Center — not just prosecutors, but also the defense bar and the courts’ staffs — as a “family”. To a certain extent he is right [...]