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May 27, 2008 in
I haven't felt much like blogging lately; you may have noticed. I've been practicing law and catching up on my reading. Right now I'm interested in The End Of The World As We Know It. I read James Kunstler's (his blog) World Made By Hand -- good apocalyptic fiction (the genre of Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle [Pournelle's blog] or even The Stand, which
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May 23, 2008 in
Collin County DA John Roach has, after 18 months in which his office spent 5,000 man-hours and more than $47,000 re-investigating the case, announced that there is no longer a good-faith basis for upholding the conviction of Michael Blair: Therefore, under my duty to not only uphold the law but to see that justice is done, the State is joining today with the defense team in its
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May 23, 2008 in
Eight months down the road, this guy is still in jail. (Not the lawyer, though that would be appropriate, but the client he lied to in order to get the case.)
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May 22, 2008 in
Nothing improves a public servant's demeanor as much as the threat of impending unemployment.
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May 22, 2008 in
Seeking a scoop, rookie reporter Jennifer Latson from the Houston Chronicle went and tried to interview to a person accused of a serious felony without the person's lawyer's permission. If the accused had said something incriminatory, it would have been front-page news in the Chronicle the next morning: the reporter would have been able to do something (question the accused without his lawyer present) that the prosecutor
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May 22, 2008 in
Hello there! Your blog is great! I wonder if you'd be interested in placing a post about https://www.SomeOntarioBankruptcyLawyer.com (the website I am working on)? I am trying to develop some buzz around this site and touching base with quality online publishers like yourself who write about lawyers. If we can work something out please let me know the associated costs. Hope to hear back from you on
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May 21, 2008 in
In November there are seven incumbent "Republican" felony court judges up for reelection in Harris County. I put the party affiliation in quotes because (A) judges should not be elected in partisan elections; and (B) the best of these judges don't act as though their party affiliation has anything to do with their judging. All of Harris County's elected officials are Republicans, and have been for years.
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May 20, 2008 in
On September 21, 2006 Juan L. Quintero was pulled over by a police officer and arrested for driving without a license. The officer cuffed Quintero's hands behind his back, searched him, and put him in the back of his patrol car. Then the officer got into the front of his patrol car. Quintero shot the officer seven times in the back, killing him. He was still sitting
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May 19, 2008 in
The indictment (h/t Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy) in U.S. v. Drew: On or about the following dates, defendant DREW, using a computer in O'Fallon, Missouri, intentionally accessed and caused to be accessed a computer used in interstate and foreign commerce, namely, the MySpace servers located in Los Angeles County, California, within the Central District of California, without authorization and in excess of authorized access, and,
