Dear Chris Daniel:I see that you made the correction to your website that I noted in the last paragraphs here. I appreciate that.On the front page of your current website, you list *Welcome Wilson Sr. as endorsing you. The asterisk leads to a footnote that says, "Primary Only."The primary is over. If someone endorsed you for the primary only, he doesn't endorse you.Further, at least one of

In recognition of the 40th anniversary of her October 4, 1970 death, this edition of Blawg Review is dedicated to Texas*-born blues wailer Janis Joplin. If freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose, where in America would we look for free people?

DA will look into Cy-Fair student's suicide (Peggy O'Hare, Houston Chronicle):Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos said her office will investigate what led to the suicide of a 13-year-old Cypresswood-area boy whose parents said he suffered two years of intense bullying from other students at school..     .     .     .Lykos said her office will examine whether there were instances of "egregious conduct" before Brown's death. "I'm very concerned

In the markets of South and Southeast Asia, where I learned to haggle, one of the gambits used by vendors is to claim that the offered price has to be accepted right now: “for you, today only, fifteen Rupees!”They never mean it. Turn and walk away, and the price goes down. Leave and come back the next day; the merchandise is still there, and the vendor is

Mike (Crime and Federalism) writes:I blog about prosecutorial misconduct more than anyone else. People are too busy creating Twitter norms. Because criminal lawyers should be more worried about whether some moron is duping lawyers into signing marketing contracts. (!)Fair criticism? Possibly. In the scheme of things, whether prosecutors are cheating and putting people in prison (or death row) who shouldn’t be there is more important than whether

Add this to the list of reasons that Texas is a better place to practice criminal defense law:Art. 38.075. Corroboration of Certain Testimony Required(a) A defendant may not be convicted of an offense on the testimony of a person to whom the defendant made a statement against the defendant's interest during a time when the person was imprisoned or confined in the same correctional facility as the

Harris County District Clerk candidate Chris “Lightweight” Daniel still (Chris Moran, Houston Chronicle) wants to build another County parking garage.Also, he wants to use the office of District Clerk to fight the Global War on Terror:”Online filing is today putting at risk the citizens of Harris County,” Daniel said. Those files could have Social Security numbers and other information that could be stolen by identity thieves, or

D.A. Confidential describes some of the rules he follows when writing blog posts:Do not write about ongoing cases. If I want to draw attention to one of my cases, say it’s going to trial, then I let people know it’s going to trial and I post a link to a news story about the case, without commenting on the facts myself. This can be tough because I’d

Chief Disciplinary Counsel Mark DuBois regards the issue I submitted on behalf of the Twittergate Committee, composed of a few bloggers who felt strongly about the controversy mentioned above, as frivolous, suggesting that both I and Mark Bennett have too much time on our hands. Case closed. No ethics violation, not even probable cause to believe there was one. That ends the matter for me. But I

Yesterday’s news: the Supreme Court of Mississippi is considering forcing lawyers to provide 20 hours of pro bono representation each year. It’s not suprising: Mississippi’s poor have great difficulty getting a basic education to the poor; I shudder to imagine the quality of representation they get. Scott Greenfield, noting lawyers’ protestations that mandatory pro bono is forced servitude, says: Lawyers are given a monopoly to practice law.