The criminal-defense lawyer's Christmas that started last week with a grand jury going rogue and evicting the prosecutors while investigating possible wrongdoing in connection with HPD's Breath Alcohol Testing, or BAT, vans, continues today with Pat Lykos giving the Houston Police Department a vote of no confidence:Lykos tells us she still doesn't know what went wrong inside that grand jury room last week that nearly led to

"Amy Reynolds" of WUFSD to me: I saw that your website https://www.bennettandbennett.com has accepted guest posts in the past and I would like to write one for you as well. I looked at your site, but I did not see a link to any submission criteria for guest posts. If I missed it, I apologize. . . . . . Best regards,Amy ReynoldsEmail: Amy ReynoldsOutreach CoordinatorWebmasters United

Today:I saw that your website https://blog.bennettandbennett.com has accepted guest posts in the past and I would like to write one for you as well. I looked at your site, but I did not see a link to any submission criteria for guest posts. If I missed it, I apologize.I am willing to write an article for your website on any topic you choose. In exchange for the

An Iranian man makes contact with a pretend Mexican killer, and arranges for the killing of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.; the Iranian man makes it clear to his contact, who is to participate in the killing, that people in Iran were backing the plot.It is plain to me, reading the complaint in the Arbabsiar case, that whoever was behind the arrangements to kill the Saudi

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 62.003 provides: (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the department is responsible for determining whether an offense under the laws of another state, federal law, the laws of a foreign country, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice contains elements that are substantially similar to the elements of an offense under the laws of this state. (b) The department annually

• This is taking "do not publish" just a little too far.• "God called me to run for president" should be an automatic disqualifier. Also, you've been "brutalized" because you're a Christian? In America? Shut up. Furthermore, Sociopaths are exceedingly selfish, over demanding, manipulative and exploitive and none of them has any remorse or guilt feelings. Sociopaths tend to lie, cheat take advantage and exploit and they

Bryant Valdes to MWB, 1 April 2010: Mr. Bennett: I tried reaching you by phone and you were unavailable, so I decided to write you an email. I found your Law Firm on local.yahoo.com. I am with a company called Exclusive Attorneys. We are NOT a referral service. We chose your name because we are currently looking for just one reputable law firm that can handle all

After writing this post, it occurred to me that, using allowable living-expense numbers from the IRS, the courts could create a rule of thumb for deciding whether defendants can afford counsel.For a person with no dependents in Houston, the IRS Collection Financial Standards are:$428 housing$808 vehicle$60 out-of-pocket health care$534 clothes, hygiene, etc.So just as someone taking home $1,830 or less a month would have no money to

Preservation of evidentiary error in a Texas criminal trial in a nutshell:If a trial court hears objections to proffered evidence outside the jury’s presence and rules that the evidence is admissible, the objections are deemed to apply to the evidence when it is admitted before the jury without the necessity of repeating the objections. Tex. R. Evid. 103(a)(1); Geuder v. State , 115 S.W.3d 11, 13–14 (Tex.

If you're making ten dollars an hour and working full time you need to try to hire a lawyer. That was a Harris County Criminal Court at Law judge this morning, talking to a young man who was asking for court-appointed counsel. This—"ten dollars an hour and working full time"—and that he worked "for a contractor" is all the judge knew about the young man's financial situation,