Bryan, Texas criminal-defense lawyer Stephen Gustitis (The Defense Perspective) is representing a guy charged with harassment for making an “obscene” comment in a written communication (artist’s depiction follows):

The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project . . .devoted to solving [the lack of information about police misconduct] by gathering information about reported incidents of police misconduct across the US, analyzing and compiling statistics based from several sources, and then publishing the results of all this information in a reader-friendly way in order to encourage informed debate where it was once impossible to do because

I've watched the video, and I don't know if he did it. Maybe he, like so many of my clients, is the victim of a false accusation, betrayed by the criminal justice system. Maybe he was just running his hand along the side of the car feeling the damage that someone else had done.But (please keep this just between us) I felt a frisson of guilty pleasure

Today I saw "Edwin" in court. Edwin is a longtime criminal-defense lawyer, a former assistant federal PD, and one of my criminal trial advocacy professors at University of Houston law school. Edwin represented a codefendant in my first jury trial 12 years ago, and his client's testimony sent my client to prison for 9 years on a federal bank robbery beef. I was reminiscing with Edwin about

I've added a section to the blogroll for cops' blogs. You wouldn't guess it from reading offense reports, but some of these guys can write.If you got stopped....you deserved itA motorcycle cop. Officer "Smith": Thoughts From Behind the BadgeA California cop. The LawDog FilesA Texas cop, but not an enemy of the Fourth Amendment. Cop n' attitudeOfficer Krupke, Somewhere in America.

There are lots of people willing to sell you “credit privacy numbers.” A credit privacy number (or “credit profile number”) is a nine-digit number that looks like a social security number. Those selling “credit privacy numbers” or “credit profile numbers” try to convince their customers that they can use their CPNs to “repair” or obtain credit. The rationale (repeated here, and here, and here [Cordell Davenport, you’re

Washington personal injury lawyer Kirk Bernard. No editorializing required—Kirk makes it look so easy. (H/T Kevin O'Keefe via Twitter.) (More: Kirk Bernard is a Slime Ball.)

The Harris County District Attorney's Office has not had time to talk to the defense bar about the outlines of the new pretrial diversion program for first-time DWI offenders, but it has had time to talk to the press (enough to convince the Chronicle's editors, clueless about criminal procedure, to endorse it), and now to the misdemeanor court coordinators. We now know the name of the program

I hate to say, "that's just not funny." Even aside from the Feminist Law Profs ownership of that particular intellectual property (and you do not want to tangle with the FLPs), I figure it's better to respect the dark humor in a situation than to pretend it doesn't exist. But c'mon now, Psycho Donuts: "A padded cell, a 'nutcase' art display"? Straitjackets for the kiddos? "Bipolar" donuts?

"Ought" vs. "May" on why MADD has DUI policy wrong.