Further in his interview of Chris Daniel (my earlier commentary, in four parts, is here, here, here, and here), David Jennings betrays that Daniel is not the only participant ignorant of the operative facts. He gets the lawyer-window story confused, turning it into a lawyers-only-window story and trying to make of it a story of elitism: "Does that sound like he’s trying to put lawyers above people,

In his interview with David Jennings (my earlier commentary, in three parts, is here, here, and here), Chris Daniel renounces the idea of illegally redacting documents as they are filed, claiming that Chronicle Reporter Chris Moran "unfortunately misquoted" him. (Because, y'know, journalists are misquoting people all the time.) Moran published a clarification on his Houston Politics blog:District Clerk candidate Chris Daniel says his position on redaction of

Lawyers who try cases will get a chuckle out of Chris Daniel's description, in his interview with David Jennings (part 1 of my commentary; part 2) of how to figure out how many jurors to summon to eliminate waste:Well, we could use statistical analysis to see how many people would typically be needed on any given day for a docket size. And so, if we know that

In his interview with David Jennings (part 1 of my analysis), Daniel talks about some of the conceivable problems with making public documents publicly available (he describes online access to documents as “online filing”; two different things). Some of them are nonproblems, because only lawyers have access to the documents (as in family law cases); the rest are problems on which Loren Jackson’s tech people are already

‘Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool . . . .David Jennings (Big Jolly Politics) has conversation with Republican District Clerk hopeful Chris Daniel. The puff-piece interview (Jennings doesn’t even talk with Daniel about the actual duties of the District Clerk, of which Daniel continues to show himself ignorant) demonstrates why Daniel deserves the name “The Lightweight.” Here is the 30-minute audio recording; for

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