When I say, "we should indict them all," I really do mean all of them. That includes Nancy Pelosi, the leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who claims (incredibly and contrary to the recollection of Representative Porter J. Goss of Florida) that her Republican counterpart, and the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, were told only that the CIA believed the methods were

81R8266 JSA-F By: Burnam H.R. No. 480 R E S O L U T I O N WHEREAS, The House of Representatives of the Texas Legislature has exclusive power to present articles of impeachment against a state officer under Section 1, Article XV, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 665, Government Code; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas Legislature adopt the

Dear Harris County judges: The following is a non-exhaustive list of conduct, engaged in by you or your staffs, that is likely to get you grieved:Telling defendants, "If you don't hire a lawyer, you're going to come back every day and stay until 11:30 until you hire a lawyer."Telling defendants, "Go hire a lawyer from the hallway."Telling defendants, "You made bond. You can't have an appointed lawyer."Removing

1. Israel can get by without torture. What's wrong with us?2. Isn't "we will absolutely defend those who relied on these memos and those guidelines" too close to "they were just following orders" for comfort?3. Pretending for the sake of argument that torture makes a country safer, would you rather live in greater safety in Afghanistan, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Syria; or in less safety in

Texas narcotics cops get an anonymous tip that someone is carrying drugs in his car.They call a cop in a marked unit to follow him.The uniformed cop watches for a traffic violation (changing lanes without signaling is popular).The uniformed cop stops the suspect, arrests him for the traffic violation, cuffs and stuffs him, then searches his car "incident to arrest".The rationale of this last bit -- the

Suppose that your boss has a lawyer, and you go to that lawyer for advice. You want to do something on behalf of your boss, and you want to make sure you're not going to get in trouble with the law for it. The lawyer -- either because he's a lousy lawyer or because he has an agenda that leads him to want you to do that

Harris County Assistant District Attorney George Weissfisch, hours after giving notice, sent the following email to Pat Lykos, CCing all employees:This is part one of a six email series of my suggestions to improve the office.THE OVERWORKED #3s PROBLEMWe have never been able to fill the felony courts with #4s.Weissfisch solution: We make a new hire’s first stop in the office the #4 felony position.  They then

One of the employees of R.W. Lynch whom I was a little bit tough on here filed a complaint against me with the State Bar of Texas. The State Bar dismissed the complaint. In her cover letter, our complainant claimed that I misquoted her, and that in 2 1/2 months at R.W. Lynch she never left a message stating that she was the injured party.No, she didn't

Jones McClure was kind enough to send me several copies of O'Connor's Texas Criminal Codes Plus 2008-2009, edited by Mac Secrest, and O'Connor's Texas Crimes and Consequences, edited by Todd Dupont (of Reasonable Doubt fame) to give away as Defending People schwag.Mac's codebook is my briefcase reference of choice: Texas's Code of Criminal Procedure, Penal Code, Rules of Evidence, Rules of Appellate Procedure, and controlled substances law

I was prepared to love my Kindle 2. I can buy books cheap from Amazon, upload my own content, and read it "as easily in bright sunlight as in my living room."Except, um, no.Here's how the Kindle 2 screen looks in shade. It's okay, but I would wish for a much higher contrast between the grey "white" of the screen and the grey "black" of the screen:Here,