A couple of months ago I mentioned Texas rep Leo Berman's attack on theocracy.Now it turns out  that the voices in his head inspired him.(Nobody is surprised.)

This was the only reference to time in the search-warrant affidavit:In the past 72 hours, a confidential informant advised the Affiant that Chris was seen in possession of a large amount of methamphetamine at his residence and business.The trial court and the Amarillo Court of Appeals held that the warrant was invalid because it contained no indication of when Chris had meth.According to the Court of Criminal

Popehat and Abel and Draughn and Hit & Run and Kennedy and Greenfield have already visited the subject of the video of a TSA goon groping a six-year-old girl at the airport in New Orleans (insert tacky Mardi Gras bead joke here, if you absolutely must). For me, the video did nothing more than reaffirm my decision not to take my young children through airport security.But this,

Ellen Alexander (the nicest person in the courthouse, and not just in contrast to her judge, who's a grump [but only to criminals, and fools, and the unprepared]) is once again raising money for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Two years ago Becky Pope, Ellen Alexander, and Robb Fickman raised $14,475 for M.D. Anderson. Last year they raised $19,276. Robb is the cheerleader of

I was making an appearance on a first DWI. My client had declined to participate in the cop’s agility exercises (also known as “field sobriety tests”), both at the scene and at the station. The cop claims that at the scene my client showed signs of intoxication, but on the video from the station my client is rock solid.In court, I handed the file to the number-two

When a lawyer has possession of an illegally-obtained recording, what is she to do?Not a new story; this is from 8 March 2011:Just before Duke’s first unsupervised visit, Dianna bought a small digital recorder online. Dianna unstitched a bit of her daughter’s favorite teddy bear—known as “Little Bear”—and stuck the recorder inside, stitching the animal back up afterwards. The recorder never left the bear’s guts after this,

The two choices for President-Elect of the State Bar of Texas are San Angelo personal-injury lawyer Guy Choate and Tyler criminal-defense lawyer Buck Files.I know what you're wondering: what do they say about the recent rules referendum? In interviews with the Texas Bar Journal, Files said:In every office that I have visited while campaigning, I have heard concerns voiced about the recent referendum — and the comments

To those like who want the practical blawgosphere to be the Happysphere, with no unkind words spoken about anyone (unless, as Tannebaum points out, there are no names mentioned, which makes the Happysphere more than a little passive-aggressive), the Joseph Rakofsky story should provide an object lesson. Joseph Rakofsky's online marketing is a parade of horribles: Yodle site? Check.*1 Fraudulent trustworthy grey-haired lawyer pictures (courtesy of Yodle)?

Last April Fools Day the New York Times got punked by New York blawger Eric Turkewitz, who announced that he was going to become the official White House law blogger. You'd think they would have learned, non? Nooo. With the help, as I understand it, of a vulnerability in its iPad app, The Gray Lady has again been set up, and has again fallen for it (Center

Paul Kennedy asks, “How do you react when a judge asks a defendant entering a guilty plea whether or not he believes in Jesus?”* If you’re not from ’round these parts, that might seem like a strange question. But if you’re not from ’round here, you likely don’t have judges like John “Years of Trial Experience” Clinton. Paul introduced the story last Thursday: Judge Clinton, who has