Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Magidson is reportedly Governor Perry's choice for interim Harris County District Attorney. His appointment is supposedly contingent on his getting the U.S. Department of Justice's approval to run the Harris County DA's Office for 9 months and then return to his job at the U.S. Attorney's Office, but this sort of announcement seems to me not to be the sort that a governor

The gladiators will return.

No need to update links. I managed to keep the same structure.

I've moved from Blogger to WordPress. There's still much to do to get the blog looking the way I think it should, but at least now the "recent comments" widget works.

AHCL's post on the "war on drugs" and my response started with AHCL's question on the overall message of The Wire with regard to that "war." Was the message intended to be that the WoD is unwinnable but worth fighting? Or was it that the WoD is unwinnable and self-destructive? Now (with a hat tip to Washington State Criminal Defense, a blawg that somehow escaped my attention

What we've been doing since the DEA was created 35 years ago has resulted in more drugs being available at lower costs. We can all agree that the "war on drugs" is an abject failure. Although one frustrated DEA agent suggested to me that what we need is Malaysian-style drug laws, most of us know that we're never going to win this "war," even if we start

I wrote last year about the interplay of Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 1.05 and Texas Rule of Evidence 503, and their surprising cumulative effect on the attorney-client and work-product privileges in Texas. Now the Court of Criminal Appeals proposes amending Rule 503 to remove the "special rule of privilege in criminal cases": (2) Special rule of privilege in criminal cases. In criminal cases, a client

Is it just me, or should a blawg contain some original content? I'd added David Finn's Dallas Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer "blog" to my reader because I defend federal criminal cases in Dallas and because I've heard of David (and am acquainted with his partner, George Milner III). It'd been on my list for a few weeks, providing nothing that even looked worth clicking through to. Ho-hum.

Last week's meeting was such a success (19 people attended) that we're doing it again this Wednesday at 4:30pm. If you are a defense lawyer, and would like to attend, please respond.

A man has gotta have a code to live by. (So does a woman.) I think most lawyers don't have one. What's yours?