You’ve seen this already, I’m sure:[flv:https://ivi3.com/public_html/bennettandbennett/blog/video/school_bully-hi.flv 480 368]It’s video of a 10th-form (as I understand it, the equivalent of 10th grade in the U.S.) kid in Australia being picked on by a vicious little 7th-form bully, while some fan of bullying shoots video. The little punk gets in several shots at the bigger kid, eliciting no visible reaction until the bigger kid gets fed up and hits

More from lawyer James D. “11-28-3” Evans, III:…Let me give you the straight of it: this young girl, 11 years old…she was aloose on the community—I say aloose—she was allowed to be out and about the community in Cleveland Texas from about May until about December, and over the course of that period of time she had the opportunity to interact with somewhere between 28 and 35

Mr. James D. Evans, III has been licensed as an attorney in Texas and Mississippi for over 16 years. Attorney Evans has the expertise needed to handle even the most complex criminal and civil litigation. He is an experienced trial lawyer in both state and federal trial courts. If you have legal issues or concerns the attorneys at James D. Evans, III and Associates P.C. will work

If you want to be taken seriously, please give your agents some guidance on what is not a professional-looking business card. Whenever a potential client comes to me with something like this … …my first thought is, "he's being scammed by someone pretending to be an FBI agent."

University of Houston law professor Jordan Paust, who reviewed the bilateral treaty between the U.S. and Nigeria this week, said it includes a long list of offenses for which a suspect is subject to extradition, including manslaughter. But the treaty does not specifically include the offense of reckless injury to a child or child endangerment, Paust said, which he predicted could jeopardize Tata's extradition. "This would be

The only virtue of the Court’s approach (if it can be misnamned a virtue) is that it leaves judges free to reach the “fairest” result under the totality of the circumstances. If the dastardly police trick a declarant into giving an incriminating statement against a sympathetic defendant, a court can focus on the police’s intent and declare the statement testimonial. If the defendant “deserves” to go to

I knew I was going to have to appeal this case when a prosecutor said to me, "this hearing won't take long—the case wasn't a misdemeanor." If the case wasn't a misdemeanor, you see, I filed the wrong sort of writ of habeas corpus—an 11.09 writ rather than an 11.07 writ. If I should have filed an 11.07, I should have done so in the Court of

One of our kids got the opportunity to go to a summer leadership program in one of the farther reaches of the country. In the old days there would have been a simple way to do this: get on a plane with her, fly up there, rent a car, drop her at the program, fly back, then return when the program is over and pick her up.

The Supreme Court has ordered that the referendum proceed with this structure that appears on the ballot. And we’re complying with the court’s order.Texas lawyers elected not to adopt these rules. We expect that this will not be the end of the Supreme Court’s interest in making revisions to these rules.The first quote is part of State Bar President Terry Tottenham’s response to my theory that the

Texas Lawyer Blog: State Bar of Texas members vote down proposed amendments to Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct A big "thank you" to all who voted and encouraged others to do the same. Forty-percent turnout is apparently astounding for such a referendum. State Bar President Terry Tottenham said, "We expect that this will not be the end of the Supreme Court’s interest in making revisions to these