From the anonymous prosecutor blogging at Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center: "The defense bar of Harris County does an equally good job. They defend their clients rights, and I've never seen a defense attorney who believed in his client's innocence give up without a fight." Well alrighty then!

Here's an interesting one: The Conroe Courier reports a half-million dollar civil verdict against a criminal lawyer in Montgomery County, Texas (the county to the north of Harris County) whose client accused him of extortion. Apparently the lawyer charged the client $1000 for a motion to revoke probation on a felony DWI case and then, after the hearing, demanded another $5,000. Details are sketchy, but there was

Anonymous Harris County prosecutor AHCL, in a post that illustrates the need that she remain anonymous, wrote yesterday about African-American Jurors, Batson, and the D.A.'s Office. She said, prosecutors are very much aware of the fact that probably every African-American member of a jury panel has been treated like crap at some point during his or her life by a member of law enforcement, or perhaps even

I wrote recently about "Mean Girls" in the courtroom -- lawyers (in my example, older female prosecutors, but Mean Girls can be any age or gender). Now we have Mean Girls in the practical blawgosphere (would it be uncharitable for me to suggest that AHCL accidentally brought the Harris County DA's Mean Girls with him when he started blogging?). Some anonymous person -- apparently a Harris County

We lawyers are supposed to be reasonable, logical folk. We're supposed to resist logical fallacies like post hoc ergo propter hoc. But sometimes it's just too hard. For example: 1987 - 2007 Prosecutor Kelly Siegler spends 21 years in Harris County DA's office; December 27, 2007 Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal is brought down by disclosure of emails; January 2, 2008 Siegler decides to run for Harris

The anonymous AHCL is seeking nominations for the Hector Heathcoat Award: The Hector Heathcoat Award is dedicated to the "Unsung Heroes" of the CJC. We are starting out with two categories - the unsung defense attorney and the unsung prosecutor. Sure, Rusty Hardin and Dick DeGuerin and Kelly Siegler all get a lot of attention as being great attorneys, but who are the ones the we know

Per the Chronicle: In Wednesday's downtown forum [of Republican candidates for Harris County District Attorney], sponsored by the Houston Professional Republican Women, [Kelly] Siegler said she would make the district attorney's office more transparent to defense lawyers and the public. "It will not be an office with prosecutors that win at all cost," said the chief of Rosenthal's special crimes bureau. Kelly recognizes that change is needed,

Here I mentioned "the usual older-female-prosecutor head games" that Kelly Siegler unsuccessfully employed against me in a two-kilo cocaine trial. Robert Guest commented, inquiring: What are older female prosecutor head games? Like the jedi mind trick? Not exactly. "Older-female-prosecutor head games" are attempts by older female prosecutors to throw younger male defense lawyers off their game by finding and exploiting their insecurities. This is usually done either

Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, by an anonymous criminal lawyer who started blogging on January 8th, 2008, "genuinely concerned with the way the media displays our local criminal justice system".