So I was in Harris County Criminal Court at Law Number 14 this morning waiting for the judge to return from a long break when I saw this (PDF) on the state's table for young prosecutors. This explains some of the objections you hear prosecutors making: they're choosing at random. I was amused. Then I noticed that there were three columns of eight objections each, and I

When I saw that Scott Greenfield had said, "so long and thanks for all the fish," I asked on Twitter, "Any truth to the rumor that this is part of @ScottGreenfield's settlement with Rakofsky?" I was being flippant, naturally, but I've realized that there is a germ of truth in the question. Not that he would sell out, but that with Greenfield not filing three or four

[Dr. Emmette] Flynn stated that he did not ask for Gray’s consent for the proctoscopic exam and that at the time he made the decision, he had not reviewed the search warrant or Gray’s medical history. For Gray’s proctoscopic exam, two sedatives (Versed and Etomidate) were administered to Gray intravenously. Though the doctors later testified at the suppression hearing that the risks associated with the sedatives were

When Anonymous stole criminal-defense firm Puckett and Faraj's email communications, it claimed that the theft (and defacement of the firm's website) was "part of our ongoing efforts to expose the corruption of the court systems and the brutality of US imperialism," contrasting Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich's reduced charges with Bradley Manning's prosecution. Haytham Faraj, of Puckett & Faraj, commented on Anonymous's theft: Anonymous hacked into my business

What I did does not remotely approach the level of what I would consider an investigation. It was a cursory review of information that exists in the public domain. Any 14 year old with a smart-phone could access more information than I did. Ultimately, we learned more from Mark Bennett’s blog post than I discovered from my inquiry. That's Harris County District Attorney's Office Chief Investigator Don

It started with a couple of sentences on Houston criminal-defense firm Stradley Chernoff & Alford's website: The jail personnel, especially in Harris County, seem to take a perverse pleasure in making the jail visit as unpleasant as possible. Their actions sometimes border on the sadistic, and the client who is finally released on bail, fatigued, dehydrated and humiliated, vows never to go back. Pretty innocuous, I'd say,

To begin with, Judge Blackburn did not order Fricosu to decrypt her hard drive. Why not? The obvious answer: because the government didn't ask him to. What did the government ask him to do? It asked him to order Ms. Fricosu "to produce the unencrypted contents of the computer." (In fact, the government asked for a writ under the All Writs Act, 28 USC 1651, requiring Ms. Fricosu

"Blake Jamerson" (IP 75.148.128.34) writes in response to Andy Nolen: Total Fraud?: Mr. Nolen is a wonderful attorney. Not only does he know the law but lives by the law. He helped my family and I with some valuable insight on my brother’s case. He returned all my calls and would call me if he was running late to court. I understand not every one person is alike

In the last couple of weeks we learned that two more of the Rakofsky v. Internet defendants had settled with Rakofsky—not with money, apparently, but by abasing themselves, their codefendants, and the First Amendment. LisaLori Palmieri, who on 6 April 2011 wrote a dreadful piece of blatant marketing dreck (archive.org, via comments here) about Rakofsky's failure in the Deaner case… It seems that neither Rakofsky’s law degree