Anonymous Harris County prosecutor / blogger "Arthur Seaton" at Saturday Night and Monday Morning? Wuss.The anonymous Harris County prosecutor / blogger at Life After Esq.? Wuss.Harris County prosecutor Jeremy Gordon, blogging under his own name at The Minority Report? Definitely not a wuss.The first two cratered their blogs in the last week—because of blowback from Life After Esq.'s overshare about baby prosecutor school in Austin, I guess.

A must-read, especially for people think that baby prosecutors are magically endowed with wisdom to make decisions affecting other people's futures: the new blogger on the Harris County criminal law block, Life after Esq., is reporting from "baby prosecutors school" in Austin.With plenty of breathless prose about partying, and palpable sexual tension between Ms. Esq. and "6'2" and a half", it's like a TV show about high

Some chucklehead sent me comment spam, using the same phrase, "Cleveland Internet Marketing Consultant" as his author name and in the text of his comment. (Here's an idea: a Wordpress Plugin that automatically marks as spam any comment with the same n-or-more word phrase in both the comment and author fields.)Look at the URL he's trying to promote: A San Diego Breast Augmentation website. When it comes

We lawyers are a pretty messed-up bunch—more emotionally and psychologically messed-up than the mean. We suffer from higher incidences of alcoholism, drug abuse, and depression than the general population. The lawyer whose career is his whole life, who defines himself in terms of his prowess as a lawyer, is in for disappointment and trouble. Because if you are your successes, then when a case doesn't end as

Houston DWI attorney Paul Kennedy reports:A citizen confronted with a first-time DWI will be offered pretrial diversion (if eligible) or 30 days in the county jail. The other option is to ask the judge for probation without a recommendation from the prosecutor.. . . .Said an unnamed source, "the plan is to force people into pretrial diversion."This is the Harris County DIP (which is now to be

Anita Mugeni Anita Mugeni, one of the few criminal-defense lawyers in Rwanda (a place that makes Williamson County look almost civilized). Recently, Anita defended a woman appealing a conviction sentencing her to death. Despite the seriousness of the charges, the court had not appointed a lawyer and the woman did not know she had a right to one. The woman was accused of murdering her neighbor by

Check these out, and tell me what you think:Gamso - For the DefenseOhio Criminal Defense Lawyer Jeff Gamso.What About Paris?Dan Hull's What About {Clients / Paris}Crime & FederalismMike Cernovich: "So long as everyone agrees to believe the lie, then the lie will remain the truth."Cognitive DailyA new cognitive psychology article every day.Houston's Clear ThinkersHouston lawyer Tom Kirkendall.White Collar Crime Prof BlogStetson University law professor Ellen S. PodgorLife

Dan Hull is right.Effective immediately, absent compelling reasons, this blog will join Dan's blog, What About {Clients / Paris}, in not publishing any comments of anonymous commenters. All comments must be accompanied by commenters' names (first and last) and real and verifiable email addresses.I've fumed about anonymous commenters for years (I've been blogging for years?!?), but life is too short to fume about something I can fix.

Cynthia Henley explains Why the Defense Does not Share Info with the State. Ken Lammers (CrimLaw) encounters a unique punishment strategy form a defense lawyer in At Least Buy Me Dinner First. Rick Horowitz (Probable Cause) explains why, if you're in a car that was stopped on the road, You Just Got Pwned! Brian Tannebaum (Criminal Defense) is tired of the bullshit of "We Have No One

Today's asshats of the day are Adam Winter and Thomas A. DiCicco, Jr. of "Web Guardian" (I don't know if it's this WebGuardian, but it's probably just a boiler room in Boca Raton).The first time Adam called he gave his full name ("Adam Winter", possibly a pseudonym; if I were working in a sleazy boiler room in Boca I sure as hell wouldn't give my real name)