Harris County Civil Court at Law Number 1 Judge R. Jack Cagle sent out this Christmas card, paid for with campaign funds:I'm not on Cagle's Christmas list, but a civil-lawyer friend passed the card on to me, commenting, "Usually when a judge thinks I’m unwise, it’s because of my lack of legal skills, not because I’m a Jew."Proselytizing the lawyers who appear before you: Grievable? Probably not.

"Her character is irrelevant," Androphy said. "The fact that he met with her, the fact that he's a judge in the court, she was a defendant on trial and they were planning to go out and potentially engage in a sexual affair makes him guilty. Period." That's Houston criminal-defense lawyer, and ABC affiliate KTRK-13's legal commentator, Joel Androphy, on Judge Donald Jackson's prosecution. Joel was my white-collar

Nobody could possibly have predicted way back in August that Pat Lykos’s failure to seek outside counsel to prosecute Don Jackson, a misdemeanor judge before whom she had appeared (through her assistants) every court day since January, and before whom she may have to appear again every court day until one of them leaves office, would cause a problem. Well, almost nobody.

If he does, the State Bar doesn't mind. First, a story: the Texas Legislature amended section 38.12 of the Texas Penal Code, entitled, "Barratry and Solicitation of Professional Employment," in September. The former statute had been held unconstitutional by Judge David Hittner in Moore v. Morales, John Cornyn had opined formally as Texas AG that the prohibition on direct mail solicitations was unconstitutional, and the new statute

For millennia people have beaten drums, rung bells, and lit bonfires on the Winter Solstice to frighten away the darkness. Maricopa County, Arizona has been suffering from a darkness in which the evil of tyranny thrives; in a 21st Century revisitation of ancient traditions, The Lawyers Of Maricopa County Announce A December 21st Rally against Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas (Miami criminal-defense lawyer Brian Tannebaum): On December

In response to Why Maricopa County Matters, in which I wrote,Sheriff Joe is what we get when we leave our form of government, rather than just the people serving us in it, up to the scared white Republicans. His conduct, and his reelections, are proof that the voters of Maricopa County do not love the Constitution.an anonymous commenter wrote:He is an elected official and people vote for

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Criminal Defense (Florida): Maricopa County: An American EmbarrassmentGamso - For the Defense (Ohio): Sheriff Joe and the Second AmendmentPeople v. State: Sheriff Joe Arpaio almost attends fundraiser in Elkhart County ...The Agitator: Update in Maricopa CountySimple Justice (New York): Maricopa: The Counter Attack ContinuesEmptywheel » Arpaio And Thomas: The Most Unethical Sheriff And ...Goldwater State: The Maricopa County tantrum continues.Valley Fever: Andrew Thomas Offers No Evidence of

Scott Greenfield asks:It's grown tedious hearing about, and writing about, the doings of Crazy Joe in Maricopa.  No doubt he has a few more bullets in his gun that will soon whistle through the air.  If there's no one, from the Governor to the United States Attorney to the indicted Chairman of the Board of Supervisors to the judges to the lawyers to the citizens, with the guts

In response to the Houston Police Department's concerns that the DA's new policy of not charging <10mg controlled substance cases as felonies, but rather as Class C misdemeanor paraphernalia cases, will result in their not being able to pad their statistics with felonies that require little work result in a rise in the sort of crime, like theft and burglary, that even rational voters care about (as