Good news: Lana Shadwick of the Harris County District Attorney's Office's Appellate Section, formerly of Fulbright & Jaworski (and a bunch of other places that have nothing to do with the trial of criminal cases), has decided to run for criminal court judge.I heard the news that Shadwick would be running in the Republican primary against Kristin Guiney (who  outclasses Shadwick across the board, and who I

I don't much care what standard Stanford University uses to decide whether to expel students accused of sexual assault. The issue doesn't get my blood pumping. If Stanford chooses "a preponderance of the evidence" and other schools follow a higher standard ("clear and convincing evidence," or even "beyond a reasonable doubt"), potential Stanford students are free to decide whether they want to attend a Hysterifascist People's Utopia,

Here is the advice you see before sending a comment to Bennett & Bennett via our website: This form is for potential clients to contact Bennett & Bennett. Do not use this form if you are trying to sell SEO services or anything else. Pretty unambiguous, right? So when Steve Kramer of LegalMatch sent me an email via the contact form last December, I responded:

If you are afraid that the prosecution is giving the jury false information based on your data (via Bobby Frederick, South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog), tell the defense.

Nancy Grace is vile: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. Scott Greenfield thinks someone should do something about Nancy Grace, and that someone is the Georgia Bar: But Nancy Grace's refusal to adhere to the obligations of a lawyer is unethical.  She may not be stoppable on TV, where the demand for eyeballs consumes any interest in accuracy or ethics, but how is

I get it: if you disrespect the TSA authoritah, you will get arrested.Like this:But now, a Colorado woman is accused of putting her hands on a TSA agent at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Court records show 61-year-old Yukari Mihamae grabbed the left breast of the female agent Thursday at the Terminal 4 checkpoint. Police say she squeezed and twisted the agent’s breast with both hands.

"This is a Defamation case that was filed only a couple of months ago; it is brand new. If the case survives the motions to dismiss, I assume it will be 2 or 3 years before it is over. There are many, many defendants and once they learn who the lawyer is who I will hire as the Attorney of Record, they will almost certainly engage in

(a)  A person commits an offense who, in a public place and with intent to cause public annoyance or alarm:      (1)  Engages in fighting or in violent or threatening behavior;      (2)  Refuses to obey an official order to disperse issued to maintain public safety in dangerous proximity to a fire, hazard or other emergency; or      (3)  Creates a hazardous or physically

We’re back from our trip to and around the East Coast—about 6,000 miles on the highway, a riskier mode of travel than taking sixty-seven random airline flights would have been in 2001. Do I feel justified in putting my family in such terrible danger? Let’s review some of the TSA news while we were gone.Our friends at the TSA have been busy. The day that we left,

Tannebaum wrote in No One Would Like My Commentary On The Casey Anthony Case about lawyers taking advantage of the "press frenzy" to get their faces on TV:Some of the "reporting" by the local Orlando media is disgraceful. No one cares about fair trials anymore, it's all about the opinions, the "bombshells," and the guessing about what a jury will believe. Few of the commentators have ever