When I made my list yesterday of Trial Lawyers College alumni blogs: Eric J. Davis Paul Smith Jon Katz David Tarrell Chuck Peterson Remy Orozco Ed Stapleton I left off Collin County, Texas criminal-defense lawyer Tony Vitz, who recently started blogging, and Connecticut trial lawyer Norm Pattis, who has been blogging on and off forever, as well as Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence and Seattle plaintiffs' lawyer

Houston criminal defense / civil rights lawyer Eric J. Davis has a new blog, Sustained!. Eric is an outstanding lawyer and a good friend. (He's also a graduate of the Trial Lawyers College, as are Paul Smith, Jon Katz, David Tarrell, Chuck Peterson, Remy Orozco, Ed Stapleton, and someone else I'm unfortunately forgetting at the moment.)Please welcome Eric to the blawgosphere.

Here's the April 9, 2009 episode of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Asoication's Reasonable Doubt television show. Hosts Houston criminal-defense lawyers Todd Dupont and Neal Davis interview HCCLA past-president Pat McCann.

An oldie but a goodie, Houston criminal-defense lawyers Todd Dupont and Tate Williams interview Quanell X on the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association's Reasonable Doubt television show last October.

Andrea Marsh of the Texas Fair Defense Project comments:I think you're letting the judges who won't appoint counsel to indigent bail defendants off too easily. These judges are violating the law, whether they straight out deny an application based on bond status (CCP 26.04(m)) or hold applications for counsel while repeatedly resetting cases in order to pressure defendants to hire lawyers (CCP 1.051).  A defendant who can

Every Easter the Easter Bunny visits our house, leaving a trail of plastic eggs containing slips of paper. The slips of paper contain clues to the location of presents for the kids (Easter was never this big a deal when I was little).This year the first egg, left in a prominent location, contained a clue (a rhyme, suitable for a five-year-old) to the location of another, which

Motive remains a mystery in gay Katy teen's death:After giving conflicting stories, Banks confessed Monday that he shot Vogt to steal his car, said Harris County prosecutor Connie Spence.Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 3.07:(a) In the course of representing a client, a lawyer shall not make an extrajudicial statement that a reasonable person would expect to be disseminated by means of public communication if the lawyer

Jen got me a Kindle for our anniversary. I am highly impressed. I still have a stack of dead-tree books to work through before I can start going crazy buying eBooks, but I'm enjoying reading the International Herald Tribune for world news. Being able to carry a huge amount of text in a format the size of a small magazine has inspired me. So here, for Defending

Hawkins said all prosecutors were notified Jan. 28 there was “potentialBrady material,” meaning defendants and their lawyers must be told ofthe investigation into Wick if they make requests for evidencefavorable to their clients.District Attorney Flags Officer's DWI Cases, Houston Chronicle April 8, 2009.Really? That's what "Brady material" means, we have to be told if we ask? Because for some reason I thought that the State had an

With hurricane season approaching, now's a good time to start thinking about how you will keep your practice viable after a disaster.I use Dropbox to back up my critical files to the cloud. I have a folder on my hard drive that the Dropbox software keeps seamlessly synchronized -- when I change a file in the folder, it's uploaded to the cloud, where it's encrypted with AES-256