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  • Revenge Porn: Peanut Gallery Weighs In
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  • Spotting Yelp Review Laundering (Houston’s MGA Garage Door)
  • … I Hate People
  • Please Explain this Scam
  • Are Jury Trials Alive and Well in Texas?
  • The State’s Embarrassing Revenge-Porn Briefs
  • Free Speech: It’s Not That Complicated.
  • Two Wins to Sandwich that Loss
  • Add 43.262 to The List
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  • A Loss
  • Overbreadth: It’s Simpler than You Think
  • Against My Better Judgment
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  • Michael Corleone Gave Money to the Church
  • Contempt for the System? I Can’t Imagine Why!
  • Sometimes an Argument is Really an Argument
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  • One More Thing
  • Dishonest but Undivided
  • How is a Criminal Law not a Prior Restraint?
  • The State’s Revenge Porn Arguments 5: “Essentially Intolerable Invasions of Privacy.R
  • The State’s Revenge-Porn Arguments 4: Speech Integral to Criminal Conduct
  • The State’s Revenge-Porn Arguments 3: Obscenity
  • All But Their Four Fastest.
  • The Defections Begin
  • Word of the Year, 2018
  • Trial Lawyer Lesson: The Risk of “So You’re Saying”
  • Defection Time
  • The State’s Revenge-Porn Arguments, Part 2: Is it Content Based?
  • The State’s Revenge-Porn Arguments, Part 1: Is it Speech?
  • The State’s Arguments for Revenge-Porn Criminalization [updated]
  • Revenge-Porn Oral Argument
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  • The masochist says “Beat me!” …
  • Such an Alpha, He Even Piddles Himself Dominantly
  • Small Progress Against Implicit Corruption in Harris County Courts
  • Meet the ACLU’s Free-Speech Trojan Horse [updated]
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  • Hate-Crime Laws’ Natural Consequence
  • There Goes a Man
  • Ogg? More Like Ugh, Amirite?
  • Harris County Corruption: You’re Soaking In It! (Update X2)
  • Pay Attention to Attention
  • A Blue-Star Push of Corruption in the HCDAO
  • The CRFA: Don’t Start Celebrating Yet.
  • Requisite Variety: More than Just a Good Idea
  • Is Your Mind Set?
  • Prophecy
  • Revenge-Porn Civil Litigators (and Those Who Are Not)
  • Fixing University Justice
  • Foundations and Empire
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  • No Good Deed
  • 2016.041: Administrative
  • 2016.040: Frivolity
  • Beware The Friggerogenic Video
  • Trial By Myspace
  • 2016.037: Before You Plead that Online-Solicitation Case …
  • 2016.036: More Feedback for John Casement [edited]
  • 2016.035: John Casement’s Feedback
  • 2016.034: It Is About the Truth
  • 2016.033: Trial Theory (Part Two of Several)
  • 2016.032: Safe From Suit, But Not From Prosecution
  • 2016.031: Trial Theory (Part One of Several)
  • 2016.030: Voir Dire and Cross Examination in Dallas
  • 2016.029: Thank You
  • 2016.028: Capital Murder and the Law of Parties in Texas
  • 2016.027: Law of Parties and Felony-Murder Rule
  • 2016.026: Jury Selection Magic — Dallas in September
  • 2016.025: Carl David Ceder Learns The 12 Rules of The Blawgosphere
  • 2016.024: #AllPeopleLie
  • 2016.023: Law Profs Love Media Attention
  • 2016.022 hangoutwithmark
  • 2016.020: The Intimate Privacy Protection Act of 2016
  • 2016.019: Scurry Scurry, Scurrae
  • 2016.018 Why It’s Time to Repeal the First Amendment
  • 2016.017: I’m The Asshole the Robs Deserve
  • 2016.016: Jill Filipovic Makes Readers Stupider
  • 2016.014: Gawker, Thiel, and the Future of Free Speech
  • 2016.013: An Apology
  • 2016.012: Voir Dire Seminar in Dallas
  • 2016.011: Followup on Three Good Deeds
  • 2016.010: Brown & Musslewhite
  • 2016.009 Three Good Deeds
  • 2016.008: The Texas Criminal Subpoena
  • 2016.007: Why Online Impersonation Matters
  • 2016.006: Ethics in Legal Journalism, or Katheryn Tucker
  • 2016.005: Conservatism in Court
  • 2016.004: Why Criminal First Amendment Cases Matter
  • 2016.003 Memento Mori
  • 2016.001: My Free-Speech Wish List
  • 2015.105: Bah, Humbach
  • 2015.104: What Common Sense Is
  • 2015.103: Seth Kretzer and James Volberding, Unethical Lawyers
  • 2015.102: This Article Friggered Me
  • 2015.101: The Thanksgiving Truce
  • 2015.100: Sotomayor on Kretzer and Volberding
  • 2015.99: A Little Texas Ethics Law for Volberding and Kretzer
  • 2015.98: Fidelity Says “No” to Matthew’s Scheme
  • 2015.97: Volberding and Kretzer Just. Give. Up.
  • 2015.96: Wilco Water
  • 2015.95: WTAF STCL
  • 2015.94: Matthew’s Lawyer Letter (And Randazza’s Response)
  • 2015.93: Spaghetti Prosecution in Waco
  • 2015.92: Matthew Responds
  • 2015.91: Will Anyone Help Matthew Out? [Updated]
  • 2015.90: Poor Unfortunate Souls
  • 2015.89: “Oops,” he explained.
  • 2015.88: Cocks AND Glocks
  • 2015.87: Texas’s Disorderly Conduct Statute Unconstitutional
  • 2015.86: Texas First Amendment Update
  • 2015.85: Reputation Management Expert Patrick Zarrelli Weighs In
  • 2015.84: Dear Gary Ostrow (updated)
  • 2015.83 Dean Boland’s Threats Untethered From Truth
  • 2015.82: More Gaslamp Legal Follies
  • 2015.81: Campaign to Eliminate Air Hand Dryers
  • 2015.80: #MasculinitySoFragile? Man Up.
  • 2015.79: Cook / Lawyer Tim Sutherland’s Attempts to Cover Up Gaslamp Racism
  • 2015.78: A Taxonomy of Bad Writing
  • 2015.77: Texas’s Hoax-Bomb Law
  • 2015.76: Citron’s Baby is Unconstitutionally Ugly, Says Koppelman
  • 2015.75: Phil Grant’s Ethics, or Lack Thereof
  • 2015.74: Kim Davis is a Greedy Bureaucrat
  • 2015.73: Opportunist Dan Patrick and the Goforth Murder
  • 2015.72: Black Lives, Cop Lives, Dangerous Rhetoric
  • 2015.71: The Judo Lesson
  • 2015.70: Okay, Stan. Okay.
  • 2015.69: The Montgomery County Online-Solicitation Litigation
  • 2015.68: A Texas Online-Solicitation Law Roadmap
  • 2015.67: Texas Legislature Outlaws Sex
  • 2015.66: The Unlawful Sweetcakes Order
  • 2015.65: Teach. For America.
  • 2015.64: Functional Mindfulness II
  • 2015.63: Functional Mindfulness for Trial Lawyers I
  • 2015.62: An Apostrophe Too Far
  • 2015.61: Unlawful Disclosure or Promotion of Intimate Visual Material
  • Another Day, Another Lawyer Ego Scam
  • 2015.59: Revenge Porn Statutes and Confidentiality
  • 2015.58: New Jersey’s Revenge-Porn Statute
  • 2015.57: 170 in Waco
  • 2015.56: HB2777 Is Unconstitutional
  • 2015.55: Texas SB344 vs. HB861
  • 2015.54: Statute of Limitations Law Geekery
  • 2015.53: Get a Grip, Gaas
  • 2015.52: Hot Texas First Amendment Action
  • 2015.51: Trends in Policing
  • 2015.50: Possibly the Worst Scaled Question Ever
  • 2015.48: To the Potential Client
  • 2015.47: HB101, HB 496, HB603 Unconstitutional
  • 2015.46: Boom Goes the Thoughtcrime.
  • 2015.45: Problems in Evidence Tampering I
  • 2015.44: One out of Seven—an F for McBrayer
  • 2015.43: Don’t Worry, Be Happy …
  • 2015.42: Harris County Welcomes Dallas Prosecutors
  • 2015.41: Citron and Richards on Revenge Porn
  • 2015.40: Thinking is Not What You Think
  • 2015.38: Greenfield Takes a Hill He Can’t Hold
  • 2015.37: Never to Forget
  • 2015.36: The Unconstitutionality of Section 33.021(c)
  • 2015.35: Jury Selection Rule: Pull Back the Curtain.
  • 2015.33: In Which I Gertrude About Gertruding about Gertruding
  • 2015.32: Texas Lawyers, Don’t Be That Guy
  • 2015.31: Ethical Question—Privilege vs. Best Interest
  • 2015.30: For Shame, Professor Franks.
  • 2015.29: We Have Seen the Enemy…
  • 2015.28: Billy Harmon, Hubris, and Defilement
  • 2015.27: Stalin is Smiling
  • 2015.26: Standard Disclaimers Always Apply
  • 2015.25: Deceivers and Truth-Tellers
  • 2015.24: What’s the Message?
  • 2015.23: Hacking the DWI Checkpoint
  • 2015.22: Illinois’s Revenge-Porn Statute
  • 2014.21: How to Ask for Advice
  • 2015.20: Listen!
  • 2015.19: Get It?
  • 2015.18: Texas Law Shield and Second Call Defense
  • 2015.17: F**king Samir Chopra
  • 2015.16: Another Proposed Texas Revenge-Porn Statute
  • 2015.15: F**king Danielle Citron
  • 2015.14: Je Suis Charlie, Mais Pas Français
  • 2015.13: When is a Model Not a Model?
  • 2015.12: “In the Public Interest”
  • Je Suis Charlie.
  • 2015.11 Also, in Mary Anne Franks’s Perfect World
  • 2015.10: A Fox in the Civil-Liberty Henhouse
  • 2015.9: Texas HB101 and Arizona HB2515
  • 2015.8: Let’s Play Servant and Master
  • 2015.7: Justin Keiter
  • 2015.6: Dallas Lawyer Robert J. Davis
  • 2015.5: The Press and Professors
  • 2015.4: Another Proposed Revenge-Porn Statute
  • 2015.2: Grammar Peeve
  • 2015.3: A Few Thoughts on Trial Advocacy
  • 2015.1
  • A Williamson County Online-Solicitation Indictment
  • One in Thirty
  • Journalism!
  • In Which New Vistas Open Up
  • In Which Texas Sex-Assault Law is Bizarre
  • In Which Some Lawyers Are Suckers at Best [Updated]
  • In Which We Look at Plea Numbers
  • In Which Cultures Clash
  • RIP Brad Frye
  • In Which We Find the Game
  • In Which the News is Good
  • In Which Math is Still Hard
  • In Which We Are Being Lied To
  • In Which My Good Deed is Punished
  • In Which I Defend, Against Franks and Citron, Your Right to Sext
  • First Amendment 101
  • Robert S. Bennett (Absolutely No Relation)
  • ¡Justice, Sí, Safety, No!
  • Free to Be Stupid
  • On Twitter, Be Your Own Censor.
  • Texas Criminal First Amendment Action
  • The Psychology of Expensive Paper
  • Victimocracy Because Reasons
  • Where Improv and Lawyering Meet
  • Stupid Lawyer-Email Disclaimer
  • Programming Note
  • Victimocracy is for Sociopaths
  • Another Bad Texas Statute
  • Karenev Starts to Crumble
  • Sacred Duty [Updated]
  • Class Acts
  • Moron Dallas Lawyer Everett Newton [Updated]
  • Mark Sandoval and Christopher Ernest Braughton (Updated)
  • The State’s Argument in Ex Parte Thompson
  • The Grumpy-Cat Rule
  • Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure
  • Harris County Criminal-Defense Residency
  • The Ethics of Decolletage
  • Dirty-Talk Statute Dead in Texas, and a Misquote
  • True Believers Redux
  • In Which I Am Not Happy With Steve Greenleaf
  • Lying Law Prof Mary Anne Franks Comes to Town
  • Arizona’s Revenge-Porn Bill, HB 2515
  • Zealous Representation: Not an Option
  • It’s All Connected
  • Great Cicero’s Ghost
  • Bring a First Aid Kit: Online Damage Control for Lawyers
  • Fake Carl Ceder
  • SWRVs Hate Truth
  • Trial Lawyers of the World, Unite!
  • In Comal County, a Big Deal for Indigent Defense
  • Avoiding the Criminal-Defense Confidence Game
  • Everyone Hiring a Criminal-Defense Lawyer Should Read This
  • A Few Words for Dr. Michael Parsa
  • 5th (and Final?) Annual Criminal-Law Blog Post of the Year
  • Parsa and Cabanillas, Medical Abusers
  • The Lawyer and the Psychic
  • Affluenza?
  • A Rakofsky Do-Over
  • Unmockable
  • All Shootings Good Shootings
  • Lying Law Prof Lies.
  • Three Things [updated]
  • What Is This I Don’t Even
  • Morals Policing
  • Dallas Morning News’ Credulity = Incredibility [updated because math is hard]
  • A Defense in a Failure-to-Report-Child-Abuse Case
  • Untitled
  • Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Client’s File is Client’s.
  • Meet Scarecrow’s Mother
  • Compliance Testing
  • Pop Law
  • Fake Scott Greenfield
  • Law-Talking Dude
  • On Mitigated Speech
  • Another Writing Sample
  • Setting up Obihai OBi100 and Vocalocity
  • Law Geek: Writing is Thinking
  • Be the Student, or Be the Lesson
  • Not So Egregious? Not So Severe?
  • Online Solicitation in Conroe
  • Law Geek: More Karenev
  • Montgomery County is Definitely Different
  • How Democracy is Supposed to Work
  • You call it a “syndrome” as though it’s a bad thing.
  • Book Review: The Marble and the Sculptor
  • Guest Post By Robb Fickman
  • Hired Guns and Heroes
  • Law Geek: Texas Appellate Nightmare—Karenev [Update]
  • Legal Malpractice Nightmare
  • Arguing Massachusetts’s Peeping-Tom Statute
  • This?
  • One Thing Male Feminists Need to Stop Saying
  • Anally Raping the Constitution, Plus Tort Reform
  • New Revenge-Porn Statute Policy
  • Blawg Review #325.3 [updated]
  • Another Suspect Texas Statute: 33.021(c)
  • Post-Halloween Parade of Horribles
  • What Happens Next
  • Part of Texas Online Solicitation of a Minor Statute Unconstitutional
  • Guess Who (No Fair Googling)
  • You See a Gun, I See a Lever
  • A Better Revenge-Porn Statute
  • Scholarship or Activism, but Not Both
  • More JD Underground Lulz
  • Revenge Porn: More Made-Up First Amendment Law
  • No, We’re Not Doctors [updated]
  • Police Aggravated Assault Caught on Video
  • State of Texas v. Hunter Thomas Taylor [Updated]
  • Is California’s Revenge-Porn Statute Constitutional?
  • Avvo, Endorsement, Fraud.
  • Is New Jersey’s Revenge-Porn Statute Constitutional?
  • Are Statutes Criminalizing Revenge Porn Constitutional?
  • I Am A Whore.
  • Six Ways to Screw Up Your Persuasive Writing
  • All the Wrong Reasons
  • Teacup Texans (and New Yorkers)
  • Isn’t the Coverup Always Worse?
  • The Illusion of High Standards
  • Tom DeLay, Innocent Man
  • The Ethics of Judicial Support
  • Texas Free-Speech News
  • Stuff & Nonsense
  • Road Rage With Missiles
  • We Are Out of Luck
  • NSA T-Shirts for Sale
  • Cats and Other Strays
  • The Sound of Tiny Rattles
  • A New Day Dawning
  • Corruption
  • Signs and Portents
  • Malediction for the Retributive
  • Terrorist…ic…al…ish? Threat
  • What We Know That Ain’t So
  • DPS Twitter Subpoenas
  • Stand-Your-Ground in the Zimmerman Case
  • Standing Your Ground
  • The Stupid. It Burns.
  • Zimmerman Verdict Confirms What We All Knew All Along
  • Ten Commandments of Courtroom Humor
  • Ignore This Post
  • Friedman, Freedom, and Temporary Safety
  • Prosecutor Gives Good Advice; is Fired.
  • What Was Roger Thinking? Five Hypotheses
  • Andrew DeLuca’s Delusion
  • SB187: Panic in Austin
  • Lerner and Immunity: Dershowitz is Wrong
  • Math is Hard: Fear is Not Danger
  • Book Review and Giveaway: Mistrial
  • Texas SB 834: The Star Chamber Bill
  • Lawyernomics 2013
  • Limitations and the Ken Anderson Prosecution
  • Quarles and its Progeny: Tsarnaev
  • Spousal Privilege, Illustrated
  • Justice and Revenge, Rosenbaum Trolling
  • The Sandwich Theory
  • Mea Maxima Culpa
  • Yo Ho Yo Ho The Pirate’s Life For Me
  • The Relationship Card
  • “I really thought you were the real deal…”
  • Is This How Kid Lawyers Think?
  • Microsoft Word 2011 Bloated PDFs
  • Rand Paul Surrenders
  • TCDLA’s Position on Reciprocal Discovery
  • Why You Gotta Be So…Mean?
  • Prosecutor Exceptionalism
  • Reciprocal Discovery: Federal Rule 16 vs. Texas SB 91
  • Texas SB 91—The Discovery Bill
  • Please Don’t Hesitate, Lady
  • Cop’s Lawfare Fails
  • This Guy Needs Me
  • ¡SpiderOak, Sí. Dropbox, No!
  • Revenge Porn and “Rape Culture” Culture
  • Isn’t Revenge Porn Constitutionally Protected?
  • Behind the Jury-Selection Curtain: Challenges for Cause
  • Jury Selection Behind the Scenes
  • More Working-Class Jurors
  • Bad Salesman
  • Teri Buhl Followup: “Libel…no wait, copyright!” (updated with two more theories)
  • Doin’ it Wrong on Twitter (updated)
  • Encouraging Words from an Unlikely Source
  • Law Tech: AppointmentReminder.org
  • Let My People Go
  • Cultivating Requisite Variety?
  • A Proud Moment
  • ProTip:What to Do if There’s a PI Surveilling You
  • Peter A. Barone: Asshat Prosecutor of the Day
  • I Don’t Watch Law And Order Either.
  • Personal Sovereignty and the Guns of New York
  • PSA: Disability Insurance
  • The Uncashed Check
  • TSA: Rule 407 Does Not Apply
  • You’re Soaking in it.
  • The “Gun-Show” “Loophole” and Tort Law
  • …Same As the Old Boss?
  • Mad Feminists: Developing the Argument
  • Judge Joan Campbell’s Legacy
  • Writing Better
  • You’re Fired. No, Really. Stop Laughing.
  • The Mad Feminist
  • The Final Hack
  • Eight Words Every Lawyer Should Use Often
  • A Lie Told Often Enough…
  • Third-World Problems
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Infographics [Updated With Links]
  • Two Names to Remember in Delhi
  • A Board-Certified Criminal-Defense Lawyer
  • A Time for Heroes in Delhi
  • Beergoggle Lawmaking
  • Judge Hill and the Appearance of Impropriety [Updated]
  • Batty People Need Lawyers Too
  • Arizona Cribs its Online-Impersonation Statute from Texas; Still Unconstitutional
  • Narcissists Who Need Narcissists…
  • Curse You, Bill of Rights!
  • Still Trying to Keep the Chronicle Honest
  • The Nonaggression Principle and a Question
  • The Parable of the Knife
  • Jason Howard: Are You E-X-P-E-R-I-E-N-C-E-D?
  • Three Overbroad Texas Penal Statutes
  • Fired Judge Suddenly Realizes …
  • Ladies: Is Compliance Sexy?
  • looking to lose on appeal – s4ll
  • Criminalizing Dissent
  • The Ethical Masochist’s Dilemma
  • Conrad Black on BBC
  • Outsource Your Marketing: Jared Pomranky / Net Profit Marketing Edition (Updated)
  • TSA: All That is Wrong With America
  • TSA: Anonymity Breeds Contempt
  • The Secession Petition: The President’s Response
  • Outsource Your Marketing, Guest Post Edition
  • Outsource Your Marketing, DC Courts Edition
  • Harris County: A New Equilibrium?
  • More Fun With TBLS
  • My Evaluations from the Advanced Criminal-Law Course
  • New York City? Get a Rope.
  • Gurstel Chargo: Welcome to Hell, Merolo and Kulpers [Updated X2]
  • Meet Gurstel Chargo, “Honest Americans” {updated twice}
  • Great T-Shirts, Quick and Cheap
  • We Are Afraid to Name and Shame
  • Fun With UCE
  • My Jury Selection Lecture (Video Fixed)
  • “Legal Brand Marketing” Ethics Fail II
  • Conditioning Proceeds as Planned
  • You Keep Using That Word…
  • When Your Only Tool is a Hammer…
  • I Was Half Right About Dionne Press’s Assisted-Suicide Case
  • “Legal Brand Marketing” Ethics FAIL
  • AG Abbott Nonresponsive
  • Eggs Win Trials
  • Judge the Judge
  • Commingling in IOLTA?
  • Judge Ruben Guerrero Fails to Bully Me
  • Algebra?
  • A Ridgeback-Shaped Hole
  • Good News
  • Untitled
  • “The Other Threat”
  • “I Want More Cops Because I’m Afraid of Tyranny”
  • Harris County Democratic Party to Voters: Screw You.
  • Don’t Say I Haven’t Warned You.
  • A Motivational Poster for Our Harris County Judges
  • The Lesson of Todd Akin
  • Butthurt Prosecutrix
  • The UVDQ
  • My Prediction in Dionne Press’s Assisted-Suicide Case
  • Masad “Max” Baba, Roni Buff Greenberg, and Other Thieving Swine
  • A Comment…
  • New Improved Docket Policy
  • Jury Selection: Scrap the Script
  • Nothing New Under the Sun
  • Interesting Mandamus Case
  • Fear Not.
  • When in Doubt, Choose “D is Screwed”
  • Dionne Press, Helping Keep the Trains Running on Time
  • Ten Years of Windypundit
  • Less Government! More Bacon!
  • Same Continent, Different Worlds
  • Pass the Popcorn
  • Puppets Without Puppeteers
  • Defend Well and Prosper
  • Loose Ends
  • No Hero
  • Winter is Coming
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
  • There’s No Pleasing Spammers
  • They’re Heartless, but at Least They’re Incompetent
  • What’s an Onlya?
  • Indiana Steps Away from the Brink
  • Hate Speech AND Porn, Please
  • 9 June 1954
  • Emmette Flynn, and Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge
  • Why Do Criminal-Defense Lawyers Cuss?
  • Erratum
  • Screw the DHS
  • Ethics Redefined
  • Kimberlin v. Internet: Not a Partisan Issue
  • The Popehat Signal
  • Vial = Trial
  • The Great DA Purge of ’12
  • Harris County Primaries
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  • DA Primaries
  • Where’s Your Soulcraft?
  • Blog-About-Brett-Kimberlin Day
  • …And Besides, Intellectual Honesty Doesn’t Win Elections
  • Back to METRO
  • Shout It From The Rooftops
  • Another Victim of the Wars on Terror and Drugs
  • On Fictionalist Craig Malisow
  • The Best Tradition…and Bad Judgment
  • Last Week’s Reasonable Doubt
  • For the METRO Board
  • METRO to The People: “Up Yours!”
  • TSA Agents Violate Texas Law [Updated]
  • Our Natural Allies
  • Things Everybody Knows
  • METRO Board Meeting Streaming Now
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  • Harris County GOP and the PD Redux
  • About Those Eight METRO Felony Arrests
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  • TSA and METRO: The Denials Begin
  • John Brennan, Naked American Hero
  • A Couple of Updates
  • The Grudge DBA
  • TSA Takes Over a Bus Stop
  • Blawg Review #317
  • Unintended Consequences
  • David Prater Gets It? and Just Say No to Stipulations
  • Controversy Between Lawyer and Client?
  • Winning Friends and Influencing People
  • Birmingham Jail and Blawg Review
  • Disappointment (Updated Again 12 April 2012)
  • Judge Bill Harmon
  • Things to Read
  • Blawg Review is Back
  • This Might Cramp My Style A Bit
  • Blind-Squirrel Lieberman Finds Acorn [updated 4/2/12]
  • Crystal Cox
  • Trayvon Martin: A Little Florida Law
  • Trayvon Martin: Strange Bedfellows
  • Harris County DA Leadership Vacuum
  • Is the Texas Wealth Club a Scam? [Updated 23 March]
  • Bad Question, Deceptive Video?
  • You Don’t Always Get What You Pay For
  • John C. Osborne, Again
  • Five Years
  • Our Criminal-Defense Clinic in Havana
  • The Harris County GOP and the PD
  • What the Hell is Ron Paul Thinking?
  • TSA Thuggery: First Amendment Edition
  • Why Do We Oppose Mandatory Minimum Sentences?
  • On Innovation in the Practice of Law
  • Homeless People and Cats
  • Essential? Little? Temporary?
  • Bennett, Dissenting
  • An Interesting Way to Do It
  • The Trial Lawyers College is Not a Cult
  • Dr. Emmette Flynn: Second, Do No Harm…?
  • Baby Prosecutor Bingo
  • Why Greenfield Will Return
  • Dr. Emmette Flynn: Scoping Gray’s Anatomy
  • You Got the Wrong Guy, Mister.
  • From Frying Pan to Fire?
  • Sadistic Harris County Jailers. And the Streisand Effect.
  • On U.S. v. Fricosu and Word Magic
  • The Uncashed Check
  • Unpublished Comments
  • Joseph Rakofsky in the Happysphere
  • Harris County Grand Jury News Parts One and Two
  • A Brief Political Thought
  • Dave Boyle, 1948-2011
  • So You’ve Been Disappeared
  • Rakofsky or Roberts? Help Me Decide
  • Best Criminal-Law Blog Post of the Year
  • Could it Be?
  • Tannebaum Takes One for the Team
  • Your Fifth Amendment at Work
  • Right Now
  • WWWWD?
  • Smart Cops and Ridgebacks
  • An American Political Spectrum
  • Apropos of Nothing…
  • Meet Ronald Ray, Sr.
  • The Sky is Definitely Not Falling
  • Keeping America Safe From Granny
  • At What Point?
  • The Legality of DIVERT
  • Dispatch from the Contempt Front
  • Two Solzhenitsyn Quotes
  • I Would Have…
  • Last Week in DA Politics
  • Harris County District Clerk Chris Daniel Done Good
  • UC-Davis: Sauce for the Gander
  • Buttercup Nation
  • Read This
  • Law Geek: Beaumont Court Gets Double Jeopardy Wrong.
  • What We’re Up Against: Harmless Error
  • A Politicized Timeline, and a Lie. But I Repeat Myself. [Updated, with Transcript]
  • The BAT Van Contempt Hearing, Interpreted
  • The Brain and the Law
  • My BAT Van Contempt Guess [Updated]
  • This Is Supposed to Help?
  • The Secret Lives of Judges (corrected and updated)
  • The BAT Van Show-Cause Order
  • Live by the Hatchet, Die by the Hatchet
  • Houston DWI “BAT” Vans—A Timeline
  • ¡Que Pendejosidad!
  • Falsus in Unum…
  • Welcome to the Blog, Amy Reynolds
  • Your Latest Trick (With Bonus Lawyers)
  • False Flags and Simpletons
  • Other States’ Offenses Requiring Sex Offender Registration in Texas
  • Couplathree Thoughts
  • Taking Back “Reasonable”
  • Don’t Do This
  • The Problem of the Working Poor, Illustrated
  • That’s Just How We Roll
  • Guest Post: Sesha Kalapatapu on Rule 3.06
  • Letting the Imp Drive
  • Stop NACDL LeadRival Spam
  • [Not So] Good Expunction News
  • I Hope There’s a Fourth Amendment in Heaven
  • My Amazon Bookstore
  • Aristotle Wept
  • Moral Foundations Matter
  • When Happy Thoughts Are Valued More Than True
  • Redemption Theory: All Stocked Up.
  • Federal Jury Selection: No Google for You!
  • Opray Onobay Ublicopay
  • Countering TSA Deindividuation
  • Not News
  • Fifteen at One Blow
  • Respond?
  • Too Honest to Be President
  • Today, Every Busybody’s a King
  • California: The Vacuous State
  • Law Geek: The Circular 230 Ward Against Evil
  • TSA Mission Creep
  • Guest Post: Robb Fickman on Judicial Disrespect
  • Safe Enough?
  • A Public-Service Announcement, and What Did Dennis Baranowski Know?
  • Soliciting Criminal Clients by Mail After 1 September
  • From the Archives
  • TSA Thug Thedala Magee Threatens Suit
  • Racist Cops: Thanks for the Reasonable Doubt!
  • Two Lawyers Behaving Badly
  • Outsourcing and the Virtual Law Practice
  • CCP 21.15
  • NLSes Revisited
  • Ethos and the Two Johns
  • Harris County PD New Hires
  • A Court of Criminal Appeals Excrescence
  • John M. Regan, Jr.’s Bad Beat
  • Scare ‘Em
  • Overcivilization
  • Texas Civil Liability for Barratry
  • From the Mailbag: Rachel Kugel
  • LegalMatch Ethics
  • Branding Week, with Bonus Andy Nolen [Update]
  • For Future Reference
  • Selling Out?
  • Child Prostitutes = Nails?
  • Still Crazy After All These Years
  • Stanford and the Loss of Innocence
  • Help Put Steven Kramer’s Arm on the Door
  • Good-Citizenship Tip
  • Disbar Nancy Grace for Being Repugnant? Are You High?
  • Another Bad Screening Arrest
  • Rakofsky’s Ad to Replace Richard Borzouye
  • Carolyn Piphus is a Fool
  • 19 States in 19 Days
  • Advertising in the News
  • A Lesson From the Casey Anthony Trial
  • Another Lawyer Being Fake Online
  • A Practice Tip
  • Was Joseph Rakofsky Ineffective?
  • RIP Jdog
  • Loose Ends: TSA Admits that its Security is Superfluous
  • Travis’s Letter from the Alamo
  • NM: TSA to Oversee Prom Searches
  • Future’s Hope
  • Who Doesn’t Want Broader Jury Pools?
  • Nothing for Nothing
  • Indiana Cops Get the Keys to the Castle
  • Richard Borzouye: No Bad Publicity?
  • Compendium of Rakofsky (and Borzouye) v. Internet Blog Posts
  • The Rakofsky v. Internet Lawsuit(s)
  • Dear Texas Legislative Republican Cretins
  • Follow the Bouncing Hackneyed Ball
  • Texas Padilla Retroactivity News: Good and Weird
  • Notes on a Killing
  • Mean But Stupid
  • Krav Maga and Me
  • TCDLA Strike Force FTW
  • A Sound Basis
  • Home of the Craven
  • Give Generously; Make the Fat Man Run.
  • Texas Lawyers: Time to Vote Again
  • The Object Lesson of Joseph Rakofsky
  • NYT Punked. Again.
  • A Damn Good Start
  • In Your Face, Brett Ligon!
  • Potential Topics for the Criminal-Defense Skunkworks
  • Fleshing out the Criminal-Defense Skunkworks
  • Building the Criminal-Defense Skunkworks
  • A Bully Rorschach Test
  • Warning: 11-28-3 Lawyer Aloose on the Community
  • A Bad Lawyering Combination: 11-28-3
  • Dear FBI:
  • Pat Lykos: Wrong Once More
  • Results-Oriented Jurisprudence
  • Casuistry
  • TSA Grooming
  • “The Texas Supreme Court Made Us Do It!”
  • We Win. For the Moment.
  • Another Dispatch From Mr. X
  • Battle of the Neuropeptides
  • Texas Disciplinary Rules Referendum: Former Committee Member Urges “No” Vote
  • Law Geek: Retroactivity of Padilla v. Kentucky
  • A Tiger for HCCLA
  • Vote Now (and Vote No)
  • Texas Legislator Against Theocracy
  • Steve Fischer to Chief Justice Jefferson on the Bar Rules Amendment Referendum
  • Why Straight-Ticket Referendum Voting Is Right
  • Because We Said So
  • Other Blawgospheric Voices on the Referendum
  • An Unlawful Referendum
  • SBOT General Practice, Solos, and Small Firm Section: Vote “No.”
  • Where to Go to Vote “No”
  • The Referendum: A Former Chief Disciplinary Counsel’s View
  • The Referendum: A PI Lawyer’s Opinion
  • Ethos, Fleas, and Awesomeness
  • Flat Fee Fight: What’s Really Going On?
  • Question D
  • The Rest of Question A
  • Are 10,000 Texas Criminal-Defense Lawyers Wrong on Flat Fees?
  • What the State Bar Thinks About Flat Fees
  • Refundability: When is a Fee Earned?
  • Freedom to Contract and Flat Fees
  • Do You Trust the State Bar?
  • Why Flat Fees Are Good for Clients
  • Texas Lawyers: “No” to the Proposed Amendments to the Texas Disciplinary Rules
  • Diverse Thoughts on a Great Tragedy
  • Extra! Extra! Some Guy Gets a 5K1!
  • Schadenfreude, Irony, and The Defense Function [Update: Photo Added]
  • Harris County’s Appellate PDs. [Updated 29 December 2010]
  • But, Hey, it’s Just Light Yellow.
  • Another Bad DWI Idea in Austin
  • Someday. Maybe. If I’m Really Good
  • Christmas Wrapup
  • Defense’s First Brief in Opposition to Mandamus
  • Briefs in Texas v. Green Mandamus
  • Mandamus in Texas and the Green Case
  • Leaked Memorandum
  • Write Better Now
  • DOJ on Immigration Consequences
  • Fun With Stats, and Sex-Offender Registration All Around
  • The Science of SWRVs
  • Shame on You, Brett Ligon
  • God Help America
  • Attorney John C. Osborne
  • Crazy Days
  • Sgt. William Palmer
  • Chain of Fools
  • Mandamus in John Green Case
  • Sometimes Polite Language Will Not Suffice
  • John Green Death-Penalty Hearing and Pat Lykos’s Game
  • Many Murderers Are No More Mentally Ill than You
  • Defense Experts in State v. Green
  • Bullies, Betas, and Unquestioning Compliance
  • How I’ll Be Spending My Days
  • Robert’s Rule #_
  • If He Offers to Show You His Wand, Refuse.
  • Why “Whatever it Takes” is Relevant
  • My Perspective on AIr Travel
  • Not Worth It
  • Blawg 100
  • More “Whatever it Takes” Quislings
  • Opt-Out Day an Unqualified Success
  • More Statistics
  • Domestic Extremists, Unite!
  • Okay, But Let’s Haggle About the Price
  • Transportation Economics [Math Fixed]
  • Tom DeLay, Convicted Felon
  • Submit!
  • Lie Back and Think of England
  • The Big DIfference
  • Moral Foundations: Four Out of Five Ain’t Bad
  • Smoke
  • Liberate the Mallcops!
  • Cooking the Books in Arizona
  • The Opposite of Irresponsible
  • Mallcops and Molesters
  • Avoid These Airports
  • Book Review: Typography for Lawyers
  • Introducing your Secret Name
  • QED
  • Harris County’s First Public Defender
  • Yodle: because hytlr.com was already taken.
  • Yodle and NACDL
  • Yodle’s “Stellar Record”
  • Yodle Lawyer Marketing Sucks
  • Bullying, Government, Betas
  • No Easy Cases. Please.
  • Vote for Loren Jackson
  • At Last.
  • Bring in the Real Lawyers
  • Is It Anything Like a “Concierge Attorney”?
  • Fake Ad Hominem, Cowardice, and Real Lawyers
  • Praise the Lord and Pass the Witness
  • The Great Lawyers’ Strike of ’10
  • It Only Looks Easy.
  • The Sobe Study
  • “On Behalf Of”
  • Totalitarianism Starts With Those Whom Society Hates
  • Don’t Be Carlos Romious [Updated]
  • So You Want to Be a Lawyer
  • Sometimes the Power Elites Get it Right
  • The Blind Leading the Blind…
  • Too Much to Mock
  • Empathy and Cross-Examination
  • Witnesses Playing God
  • I Swear Loyalty to the Flag…
  • Brickbats for Lykos
  • Chris Daniel’s interview, part 6 (in which I wrap it up)
  • Chris Daniel’s interview, part 5 (in which he speaks out for illegal immigrants)
  • Chris Daniel’s interview, part 4 (in which there is a vast conspiracy against him)
  • Chris Daniel’s interview part 3 (in which he demonstrates the Dunning-Kruger effect)
  • Chris Daniel’s Interview, part 2 (in which he waffles on terror and fudges on jury duty)
  • Chris Daniel’s interview, part 1 (in which he removes all doubt)
  • Chris Daniel’s Endorsement Lies
  • Blawg Review #284
  • Be Careful What You Ask For
  • Today Only?
  • There’s Always a Prosecutor
  • Sometimes the Texas Legislature Gets it Right
  • Scared White Republican Fear of the Day: Third-World Document-Review Terrorists
  • Blogging Rules
  • Not Unethical, But Still Not Right
  • No Bono
  • One California Bankruptcy Lawyer Steps Into the Breach
  • Harris County District Clerk Candidate Chris “Lightweight” Daniel
  • Always… Except.
  • Scene at the Courthouse
  • Blawg Review #282
  • Hard Work and Quick Thinking
  • Nedlog’s Rule
  • This Looks Like a Job For ACDLA!
  • The Grand Misdirect [With Final Update]
  • TM vs. TMI
  • Kenneth R. Kratz: “The Prize”
  • Trench Menu: Find Scott Greenfield
  • 2010 Judicial Endorsements
  • 2010 Harris County Judicial Races
  • The Reasonable Alternative Hypothesis Defense
  • From the Mailbag
  • 20 Rules for Being a Criminal Defense Lawyer
  • Texas’s Accomplice Witness Rule
  • After a Year of DIVERT
  • Trial Bonding
  • The TCDLA Politburo at Work
  • How Eyewitness Identification Works
  • Frendship and Friendship
  • PDs and Private Lawyers: Last Thoughts
  • PDs and Private Lawyers: The Missing Data
  • PDs and Private Lawyers: What the Numbers Mean
  • PDs and Private Lawyers: More Likely Than or As Likely As
  • Of PDs and Private Counsel
  • Now, What Else Can We Get “Clarified”?
  • “Years of Trial Experience”
  • Mmmmm…Chicha!
  • Partisan and Interested Magistrates?
  • Greenfield and the Teacup
  • Meet Carl
  • Attribution Redux
  • Justice, Injustice, And In Between
  • Property of the United States Taxpayer
  • The Determinist Libertarian
  • The Hunting of Justice (An Agony in Eight Fits)
  • Small Lesson
  • A(n Ex-)Prosecutor’s Principles
  • PSA: The Left-Turn Yield
  • The Meat of the Coconut: Yet Another Aspiring Victim
  • Business Plan: Never Lose
  • A Legal Irony—Federal Firearms Law
  • 10 Practical Rules for Dealing with the Borderline Personality
  • Texas’s Non-Sex Sex Registration Offenses
  • Sparta Townson, “Internet Guru Girl”
  • Something We Learned at City Hall
  • The HPD “Don’t Talk to Defense Lawyers” Memo
  • To An Anonymous Document Review
  • Thanks, Snake
  • Blog à Clef, for Now.
  • The Debriefing
  • Implicit Bias and Common Sense
  • Fighting Back Against Common Sense
  • Happy Revolution Day
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • Why Prosecution? Be Realistic.
  • Trick Questions
  • Mark’s Typical Trial Schedule
  • Small Step Toward Scientific Jury Selection
  • Warning: This is Not the Happysphere
  • More Great UTMB Ideas
  • Actually, There Are Stupid Questions
  • They’d Have to Be Crazy
  • Trawling For Terrorists
  • … and, Erica, You’re No Larry Joe
  • Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering = Chess
  • Shows Promise
  • Team Sport
  • A Class Act
  • Democracy Wins
  • Means and Ends
  • But My Way is Really Best
  • Fine News
  • At Least I’m Enjoying the Ride
  • More on Submission in Federal Criminal Court
  • If You Lose the Will to Win, You Will Lose.
  • Know What? Never Mind.
  • Unwaveringly Unwaiving
  • Desert-Island Book
  • One Thing I Learned Today
  • Back to Federal Court
  • Goosing Their Religion
  • How to Run for TCDLA Director or Officer
  • TCDLA’s Broken Election Process
  • Steve Swanger / Olschwanger, Spammer
  • On Triage and Semantics
  • “I need a lawyer just to…”
  • Jury Suppression in Texas
  • HPD Officers Suspended
  • 15 Years
  • The Trespass Problem I
  • Trial in Court 14: Voir Dire III
  • Trial in Court 14: Voir Dire II
  • Trial in Court 14: Voir Dire I
  • May Be Liveblogging Jury Trial
  • God Bless Judge David Hittner (Updated)
  • Ask Avvo
  • Rethinking Peeler
  • Judge Susan Brown: Praise the Lord and Bring Your Toothbrush [Updated]
  • Insurance [updated]
  • The New Kids on the Blawck
  • Use Immunity and Perjury
  • Clearing Criminal Records in Texas
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture?
  • The Presumption of Innocence in Harris County
  • Jack Marshall, the Elmer Gantry of Ethics
  • The Tip of the Iceberg
  • No, Jack, That Blog Post Doesn’t Make Your Butt Look Fat
  • Motion to Recuse in John Edward Green Case
  • And The Trail Has Its Own Stern Code
  • Padilla v. Kentucky
  • Take 2.8 Seconds. Be Thankful.
  • Hover Through Fog and Filthy Air
  • Procedure Geek: The Skinner Case [Updated 25 May 2010]
  • Ten Social Media Sex Secrets for Lawyers
  • Anonymous Quote of the Day
  • Nope, No Balm in Gilead. Sorry.
  • Three Years
  • John Coby Writes Blog Post With Words “Gay Nigger”
  • What is the Code for Lawyer?
  • Why is the Trial Lawyers College Afraid of these Three Women? [Updated]
  • Two New Blogs
  • Students’ Responses to Judge Standley’s Talk
  • Subpoenaing Out-Of-State Witnesses
  • Judge Standley and the MADDing Crowd
  • Crazy Days
  • Tried to Comment on Texas Lawyer Blog
  • Judge Fine and the Chronicle Back Off
  • Go Go Godzilla
  • Parsing the Made-Up News
  • Legal Education or Experience Not Required
  • Harris County Death Penalty Update: They Report, I Explain.
  • Judge Fine on the Constitutionality of 37.071
  • Even in Texas, Death Penalty Still Constitutional
  • Chris Dorbandt and Catalyst Design: Partners in Crime
  • An X-Gen Lawyer’s Manifesto
  • Input Needed: Reptile in Criminal Cases
  • Reptiles Revisited: Lizards Don’t Label [updated]
  • Chew on This, Losers!
  • Melissa Martin Wins in the Court of Criminal Appeals
  • Somebody Call the Tort Reformers.
  • Support Loren Jackson
  • Don’t Pitch Me
  • CCCL3: Anyone But Sharolyn Wood
  • Lawyers For All
  • The Anthony Graves Retrial Pregame Show
  • Punishing the Prosecutor to Fit the Crime
  • Lawyer David DeCosta Cleared
  • Accidental DIVERT Coercion
  • If Halle Smith Had Been White, Would She Be Alive Today?
  • If He’s an Expert, Then So Is My Dog
  • Anonymous Comment Reminder
  • Even If or Especially Since
  • Roeder, Padilla, Terry, Mohammed Part 1:Roeder
  • Read This Today
  • Google Blog Bundle
  • Internet Marketers and Other Scoundrels
  • “Awesome” Indeed.
  • Three Questions for Kerrville Lawyer Guy James Gray
  • 16 Simple Rules, All Together
  • The Four Most Powerful Words in the Criminal Courthouse
  • Losing Sucks
  • The Uncashed Check
  • Petty Attorney Bullshit
  • The Question: Seven Answers
  • Federal Grand Jury in Maricopa County
  • Call this “Notice”
  • Michael Sokolow’s Good Call
  • Harris County DUI/DWI DIVERT Agreement
  • Arizona Reading Comprehension Fail
  • Another Snitching Lawyer
  • More Mail from Arizona
  • From the Mailbag [Updated]
  • Two Things to Read Today
  • A Job for Fools (and Other Humans)
  • Fake Edmund Burke Was Wrong
  • New Podcast: Interview with Jim Belanger
  • This Might Cost Him the Chosen Vote
  • That’s What They’re Paying Him For, For One Thing
  • Maybe We Can Fix It At The Auto De Fe
  • Does Daniel Barrera Want To Ruin Defendants’ Lives?
  • Bringing the Light to Maricopa
  • Why Do Maricopa County’s Voters Hate the Constitution?
  • The First Annual Bloggers’ Best Awards
  • Recent Maricopa County Blog Posts (Updated)
  • Why Maricopa County Matters
  • The Trace Experiment
  • Trial Lawyer Esoterica
  • “I’ve Handled Lots of These Cases”
  • How to Choose a (Cheaper) Criminal Defense Lawyer
  • They Skipped Those Days in Sunday School
  • New Blog
  • Without a Trace
  • The Ethics of Pathos, Part II
  • The Ethics of Pathos, Part I
  • Thoughts on Nobility, Justice, and Frblniz
  • Bradley Johnson Offers a Free Four-Part Symposium on Internet Marketing for Lawyers
  • Lizards Don’t Laugh.
  • Getting Out of DIVERT?
  • Avvo Answhores (Updated 11/30/2009)
  • Outsource Your Marketing, 3000 Words Edition
  • The Potential Value of Naming Names
  • Jurisprudential Retardation: Rodriguez-Parra
  • Specialty Blog: Houston DWI
  • Convergence: Personal Sovereignty and Google Scholar
  • What the Hell is Wrong With the Maricopa County Criminal Bar?
  • Sixteen Rules for Lawyers Who (Think They) Want to Market Online
  • Why Federal Court is No Place for Amateurs
  • The Motion to Recuse
  • The Motion to Recuse
  • Prosecutors: Please Be More Careful
  • Tyler Flood Postscript
  • Your Witness… No, Not Literally
  • Comment Bug?
  • In Favor of Lawyer Exceptionalism
  • Waaaahhhh. Mine Hurts Too!
  • Everything Old is New Again
  • New Blog on the Blogroll
  • Lessons in Media Relations and Blogging, from Tyler Flood [Updated, and Again]
  • How to Choose a Criminal-Defense Lawyer
  • Disbar the Connecticut 5
  • Tyler Flood: The Drunk Driver’s Lawyer?
  • Tyler Flood Can’t Help Himself
  • Andy Nolen, Move Over!
  • Schmomises
  • Criminal Practice: The Treadmill
  • The Mississippi of the West
  • On Behalf of Matt Brown, You’re Welcome.
  • The Victimocracy Strikes Back
  • Free Adam Reposa!
  • Stuff I Don’t Want to Miss Mentioning
  • Coming Soon: Windshield Flyers
  • Couch Fees in Texas
  • Racehorse in Conflict
  • To What End?
  • Power, Responsibility
  • Honor, Integrity, Honesty, and Dignity
  • I’m Not Sure What to Think About…
  • The End of an Era?
  • The Jew With a Gun Next Door
  • The Media
  • I Confess, I Get All My Pop Culture From Randazza
  • David Martin, Willingham’s Trial Lawyer, Speaks Up (Updated With New Links)
  • Injustice Through Ignorance
  • Waiving Conflict II
  • Waiving Conflict of Interest
  • Referrals
  • I Wish I’d Said It
  • Case Oddity
  • On Competence
  • “Ten Grand to Start”
  • A Better Way to Find Cellco Providers
  • Small-Town Client Myth
  • Please Join the NMDP.
  • The One Percent
  • Quote of the Day
  • On Blogging Ethics
  • No Easy Cases (Please!)
  • Cute. That’s what you’re going for?
  • Blog Problems?
  • Blatant Shoutout to Three New Blogs
  • The “Expert” Also Known as “Lunch”.
  • Jail Hell
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 16: The Herd Rule
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 15: The Bat Rule
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 14: The Atticus Finch Rule
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 13: The Undertow Rule
  • Reiteration
  • Two-Way Street
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 11: The Playing Doctor Rule
  • Stark Raving Ignorance
  • More Andy Nolen Marketing Follies.
  • Is it Just Me?
  • Helpful Hint
  • Criminal Liability for Judicial Murder in Texas
  • It’s Never too Late to Repent, John and Johnny
  • Barrelscraping.
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 10: The Marathon Rule
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 9: The Beer Pong Rule
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule zero: One Rule to Rule Them All
  • Want Revenge? Gain? Attention? Be a Witness!
  • To the New Blogger Asking for a Reciprocal Link
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 8: The Shrink Rule
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 7: Improv Rule II
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 6: Improv Rule I
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 5: MacCarthy’s Bar Rule
  • Lethal Generosity Revisited
  • Tragedy Tomorrow…
  • Andy Nolen: Today’s Last Chapter
  • Andy Nolen: Total Fraud?
  • The Continuing Adventures of “Lawyer” Andy Nolen
  • The Further Adventures of “Lawyer” Andy Nolen
  • Andy Nolen, “Lawyer” [Updated Again]
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 4: The 90/10 Rule
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 3: The Shrek Rule
  • Rules
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 2: The Blind Date Rule
  • Treatment For People Who… Don’t Need It?
  • Jury Selection: Simple Rule 1: The Nike Rule
  • Reasonable Doubt Tonight, 7/30
  • Surgin’ Diversion Coercion
  • Boucher Revisited
  • Simple Rules for Better Jury Selection [Updated]
  • Accessibility
  • A Man Among Prosecutorial Bloggers
  • Beverly Hills 78701
  • Odd.
  • Work-Life Balance, Explained
  • DWI Diversion in Harris County
  • Anita Mugeni: Criminal Defense Hero of the Day
  • New Additions to the Blogroll
  • No, You Are Not Publius.
  • Around the Blogs
  • Another Houston Superhero
  • Legal Ethics Heresy
  • Declaration: The Author’s Cut, Restored
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • Proof that Lawyers Can Survive Without Honor.
  • The UCC: Ban it Fully, or Not at All.
  • Justice vs. The Law
  • Law and Justice Explained.
  • Fifteen Books for Becoming a Better Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer
  • The Hair in the Food, and Jury Selection
  • Keep the NPMSRP Alive!
  • Woody: Diddy?
  • Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers: How We Doin’?
  • Cop Blogs
  • The Credit Privacy Number (CPN) Scam
  • Asshat Lawyer of the Day Kirk Bernard
  • DIP… Stuff
  • Coming Soon: Retard Kolaches
  • New Post at Chron.Commons
  • Blogging on Chron.commons
  • The Club
  • The Rich Pay to Play; Let the Poor Eat Cake.
  • Pretrial Diversion for DWI
  • I Wouldn’t Hire Your Kine.
  • This is the Guy that Texas Prosecutors Have Teaching them Ethics.
  • HCDP Judicial Candidates: Who Are These People?
  • Press Release
  • Legislating Policy from the Bench: Five Examples
  • Warren, What’s Your Tribe?
  • Liability for Court-Appointed Counsel
  • Mental Health First Aid Class
  • Fred’s Day in Court
  • The Blind Leading the Blind
  • Read Defending People on Your Kindle
  • Because The Customer Is, At That Point, Often Wrong
  • Paladin Didn’t Charge Split Fees.
  • DA’s Office Does Right
  • The “Prosecuting Policy” Argument
  • Guantanamo Newspeak
  • Torture Segue #1
  • The Right Way and the Wrong Way
  • Happy Victims’ Week!
  • George Weissfisch’s Ideas Two Through Six
  • Sausage
  • Support Ovarian Cancer Research
  • Keller Impeachment
  • Geoff Berg’s News Wrap With Judge Ken Wise and Me
  • Why the Torture Memos Upset Me
  • Texas House Resolution to Investigate Sharon Keller
  • Bad Judicial Behavior
  • A Couple of Questions on Torture
  • Arizona v. Gant
  • Why Someone Has to Go to Prison for Waterboarding
  • New Ideas at HCDAO? Unwelcome!
  • Dispatch from Rock Bottom
  • The Defending People Contest Contest
  • Shame on You, Jeff Bezos.
  • TLC Alumni Blogs
  • New Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog
  • Last Week’s Reasonable Doubt
  • Quanell X on Reasonable Doubt
  • Revisiting the Problem of the Working Poor
  • Easter Bunny Pwnd
  • Save it for Court
  • My Latest Non-Lawyering Project
  • Are You Gonna Make Me Beg?
  • 2.25 GB Free
  • It’s Not Just Cops
  • Why I Don’t Make the Big Decisions
  • Meet Your Overlords
  • The End Result
  • Reasonable Doubt With Jim Leitner
  • Voir Dire Notes: The Accused
  • Jury Selection Catch-22
  • DEA Agent Manual Notes
  • Could You Send Me Some Comment Spam Instead?
  • Strange Comment Spam
  • ICE: Policy’s Effect on Immigration Would Be Minimal
  • This’ll teach her.
  • Another Brilliant Idea from Lykos and Company
  • Sharon Keller’s Been a Bad, Bad Girl
  • A Quick Study
  • Rick Casey Gets it Right
  • Pat Lykos is Wrong. Again.
  • At the Republican Party Banquet
  • HCDA Whale Fail!
  • Sharon Keller’s Response
  • Straight Into Solo
  • An Embarrassment Even to Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • Stupid Neologism of the Day
  • Brother Dave and Immanuel Kant
  • HCCLA Reasonable Doubt August 14, 2008
  • HCCLA Reasonable Doubt August 7, 2008
  • HCCLA Reasonable Doubt July 31, 2008
  • HCCLA Reasonable Doubt March 12, 2009
  • HCCLA Reasonable Doubt March 5, 2009
  • HCCLA Reasonable Doubt
  • Criminal Law Band-Aids
  • Today’s Houston Criminal Law News
  • Praise Where Due
  • Convergence
  • An Apology
  • Aggressive Criminal Lawyer? No, Thanks.
  • Here Comes the Judge
  • I’ll Take the “Over”
  • Why Challenges for Cause Aren’t Enough
  • On Reasonable Doubt
  • Peremptories — Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em?
  • My Brother Russ, in His Garden
  • Applied Ethics
  • Reprise: Prosecutors and Judges: How is this Possibly Okay?
  • R.W. Lynch Raises Its Ugly Head Again
  • Don’t Dial 9-1-1
  • Prosecutors Are So Dreeeeeeamy!
  • A Defending People Retrospective
  • Post #999 – A Taste of Things to Come
  • Pat Lykos’s Diversity Record
  • When Official Woman Kills
  • Steenking Batches
  • Cross is Not Supposed to Be Angry
  • Blog for Profit. Please.
  • Blawg Review #199
  • Corporate Bully Nordstrom Speaks With Forked Tongue
  • The Law on Poisoning the Jury Pool
  • A Letter to Blake Nordstrom
  • The NAS TBI Report
  • AGs, “Predators”, and Manufactured Fear
  • Bravest of All at 451 Degrees
  • Several Recent Additions to the Blogroll
  • Blawg Reviews 198 and 199
  • Stand and Deliver in Tenaha
  • The Colorado Supreme Court Notices Francis M. Pignatelli
  • Newbie Defense Lawyers
  • Linxmonster = Pwned
  • How to Fix the System
  • Very Conservative Politics, Very Liberal Spelling
  • To a Criminal Defense Lawyer Who Just Lost a Case
  • Ghost-Town Marketing Morons: Linxmonster
  • Prosecutors Help People, But How Often?
  • Criminal Liability Under the CPSIA
  • Ex-Judge Hanger
  • Transcript of CharonQC’s John Kane Interview
  • Williamson County Discovery
  • More for Our Colleagues Across the Pond
  • Entitled Asshat of the Day
  • Pignatelli Revisited
  • “The Lateral Hire”; or “Nuckin Futs”
  • Listen to This Today
  • Newman in the Houston Press
  • From the Mailbag
  • It’s Thursday, and R.W. Lynch Still Lies
  • Free Goodies from ASTC
  • Irony or Stupidity?
  • What Kind of Schmuck Would Hire Frank Pignatelli?
  • Why the Why?
  • Offense Report Copies
  • CharonQC’s Podcast #90
  • Worst Jury Selection Advice Ever: Don’t Listen
  • Call for Articles
  • Powerful Word Magic
  • Ken at Popehat Kicks the LA Times’s Journalistic Butt
  • Complex Questions and Children
  • Prosecutors Protecting Children (But Only When It’s Convenient)
  • Legal Sufficiency and Proof
  • If You See the High Ground, Take It
  • The Uncashed Check
  • Greed is Not Good
  • New Harris County Blog
  • J’accuse
  • Say It. Draw It. Act It.
  • An Interesting Court-Appointed Fee Arrangement
  • Texas Criminal Legislation in the Works
  • A Scavenger’s Feast, Delivered
  • How to Turn Villains Into Victims
  • Do Not Go To Law School
  • Open Letter to the Judiciary
  • Wait: “Temporary Attorney” is a Career?
  • Maybe He Meant it as Praise?
  • In Support of the Nudge
  • This Is What They Teach at Georgetown?
  • Advice to a Young Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer (bump)
  • Mock Trial and Real Trial
  • The Smell of Fear / The Smell of Sex
  • Maybe My Favorite Old Blog Post…
  • Writing Sample
  • Pride
  • I Demand a Recount
  • Prosecutors: We’re Punishing Sinners
  • A Different Sort of Red Light Camera, and A Surprise for Bal’mer
  • I Would Bet That It Has
  • Blame Brain Drain?
  • Three Notable Developments Across the Pond
  • Bad Lawyer. No Cookie.
  • Ethos
  • Newspeak of the Day
  • HPD and Video Redux
  • All for Want of a Horseshoe Nail
  • RIP
  • The Coronation Poll
  • Memo to Future Lawyers
  • Are You Man or Mutton?
  • Lykos, Meet Streisand
  • Car Keyers and the Importance of Having Gideon
  • Rescheduled From This Thursday
  • Justice vs. Fairness
  • Because Sometimes We Buy Our Own Bullshit
  • Big Trouble Only
  • Georgia Wants to Kill
  • More on Mark Sandoval
  • More Trial Music
  • For Your Listening Pleasure
  • Criminal Defense Chat with Scott Greenfield
  • Frivolous Conflicted Representation. Where Else but Harris County?
  • Everybody Gets Convicted Anyway
  • Because “Sue” Was Already Taken
  • Freedom vs. Safety
  • Murphy’s Law of Investigation
  • A Heck of a ($618,000 ) Job
  • Federal Convictions Reversed
  • Sent to me by a Smiling Judge
  • Vote for Simple Justice
  • Toxic Blog of the Day
  • Thoughts on a Hanging
  • RTF(F)M.
  • No News is Good News
  • Be the Best or Go Home
  • Also, Firings Will Continue Till Morale Improves
  • Add to List of Things That Don’t Happen When You Plead Guilty
  • Nobody Beats Up My Brother But Me
  • Another Great Thing About Being a Criminal Defense Lawyer
  • The Fallacy of Godlike Wisdom
  • Blog Down
  • Blog Down
  • It’s Wednesday Morning, and DUI Hotline Network Still Sucks.
  • For My Friends, Formerly of the DA’s Office
  • Want to Spend Less on Defense? Spend Less on Offense.
  • Internet Marketing for Lawyers: Here Be Dragons!
  • Week of Republican Hatchet Jobs Continues
  • New Rule: No Links to Blatant Marketing Blogs
  • The Outlying Counties
  • Another Opportunity to Vote for Grits or Simple Justice
  • Who’s Spending Your Marketing Money?
  • The Coming TOS Boom.
  • Power Doesn’t Like Truth
  • Rotten Tomatoes or Peeled Grapes for Scott Andringa?
  • Somewhere Napoleon is Smiling
  • Matt Shirk, You Are the Weakest Link.
  • Look on the Bright Side: This Way You Can Do It on the Clock
  • Memo to Non-Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • Nothing to Do with PDs and Private Lawyers
  • Gen Y Not as Savvy as They Say?
  • What if They Gave a WOD and Nobody Came?
  • Near the Khyber Pass, 1985/6
  • Texas’s Medical Marijuana Bill
  • Frankly, I’d Rather Mail You a Check and Burn the $4.95.
  • I Want Angry Jurors With Low Self-Esteem
  • Real Life Experience, Applied
  • Lethal Generosity in the Legal Profession
  • Three Guys in Desperate Need of Razors
  • Next Week is “Get to Know a Fellow Blogger” Week
  • JDSupra. Give Content, Get Your Clients Noticed?
  • NACDL Seminar?
  • What Rhymes With “Brutal Thug”?
  • ADA: Advertising Makes the Man Edition
  • New Judges and Reversal Rates
  • New Judges: Coda – Size Doesn’t Matter
  • Need Help
  • That Sharolyn Wood Is Such a Joker.
  • The New Judges: How Bad?
  • An Historic Election
  • The Fifth Amendment Privilege Redux
  • Get that Title!
  • Interpret or Make Law?
  • Another Approach to Death-Qualified Jurors
  • Probation vs. Prison
  • Troy Davis
  • In Trial
  • Blogging Politics
  • The Nature of the Job
  • Notes From DEA Law of Deadly Force Class
  • A Flyspeck Here, a Flyspeck Here, and Pretty Soon You’re Up to 12 Million Dollars.
  • Not, in the Usual Sense, Criminal Law
  • Improv, Trial, and Politics
  • Diana Moon Glampers for Vice President
  • Funny the Things You Learn When You RTFM
  • C.O. Bradford on Reasonable Doubt
  • And By the Way, What Ever Happened to &?
  • Memo to Marketers
  • Now It Makes Sense.
  • Texas: Still a Contender
  • A Tale of Two DUIs
  • Be Afraid… But Not That Afraid
  • Proposition of the Week
  • Who Are These People?
  • The Best Criminal Defense Lawyer in Houston
  • Thus Spake Brian
  • Reciprocal Discovery, Anyone?
  • Six Things; or, Does the Market Have Buddha-Nature?
  • Jefferson on the Wisdom of the People
  • Unexpected Happy Endings
  • Looking for Your Money on the Street Where You Lost It
  • A DUI Trial on Unmapped Uneven Terrain.
  • Video Special: More of the Same
  • Just Say “Gosh, No!” to Dullards in High Office
  • More on those Ominous Black Boxes
  • Abe Maslow, Jury Consultant
  • I am Highly Amused
  • Big Brother on Wheels
  • Of Berries, Durians, and Jean Valjean
  • Biggest. Blank. Check. Ever!
  • Spring 1987
  • Not Just a Little Bit Overboard.
  • Spring 1986
  • Join NACDL
  • Genuine John McCain POW Bracelet
  • Yeah, Um, I Think We’ll Pass on This One.
  • Politics
  • Downtown Debeautification Project
  • The Game is Afoot
  • A Few More Post-Ike Photos
  • Hurricane update day 3
  • Hurricane Update 0840
  • Hurricane Update 0315
  • Asshat of the Day – Hurricane Ike Edition
  • Hurricane Ike Update – 2130h
  • Hurricane Ike Update – 2015h
  • Hurricane News
  • Storm Update
  • Seen in the Neighborhood
  • Paging Mrs. MalAProp
  • I’ll Let Someone Else Judge Whether That Was Appropriate.
  • About Thinking
  • I Trully Hope She Learns From This Expiernce!
  • It’s Almost Mesmerizing
  • More Special Prosecutors
  • NLS Tactics and Strategy
  • Welcome to Downtown; Don’t Pick Up Any Hitchhikers.
  • Rolls, ¡sí! Pay tickets, ¡no!
  • You Know Your Organization is in Trouble When…
  • A Special Prosecutor
  • The Houston Justice League
  • Testing
  • Raises for Prosecutors and Defenders, or More Pork for Other Projects?
  • A Little Sunday TJ
  • Everyday Incidents
  • Tell Me Again Who the Victim of this Particular Crime Is?
  • Naivete
  • The Secret to Winning: Bennett-Style
  • Bad Cop! No Donut!
  • Dialing for Defense Dollars
  • Scott Greenfield Blogs Mimi Coffey
  • Jury Trials Blowing Away
  • Naptime in the Courtroom
  • Read this Book
  • Practical Blawgosphere, Scavenging Department
  • Federal Mortgage Fraud in Texas = Payday for Criminal Defense Lawyers?
  • New Contributor to the Practical Blawgosphere
  • Bad DUI Advice and Internet Anonymity
  • Officers, You’re Doing a Heck of a Job.
  • Million-Dollar Legal Advice
  • Last Thursday’s Reasonable Doubt
  • Arrogant, or Just Dim?
  • First Blog from TLC
  • The Client’s Decisions, the Lawyer’s, and Chastisement to Insolent Pups
  • The Scavenging Thread
  • I Thought I was an Infomaniac…
  • “A Marvelous and Precarious Machine”
  • Ask the Legal Marketing Guru
  • Marketing the Hired-Gun Prosecutor
  • Must-Watch TV
  • Love in the Air?
  • Would a Group of Lawyers Offering this Service be a “Cover Band”?
  • From the Harris County Sexually Oriented Enterprise Regulations
  • Wednesday Lagniappe
  • Ego
  • The Trick Question: Prosecutors’ Questions Answered, and Answers Questioned
  • More on the “One-Witness Rule” Trick Question in Jury Selection
  • The Dubois, Wyoming Blawgers’ Convention
  • The One-Witness Rule
  • Untitled 8
  • Another Odd Victory
  • One Double Strike
  • Trial Psychosis
  • To My Republican Friends
  • In Trial*
  • The Right Way to Give Up a Case
  • From the Houston Criminal Law News
  • Untitled 4
  • The Miami Motion to Substitute
  • Congratulations!
  • Take That, Fort Collins!
  • New Harris County Criminal Law Blog
  • Guest Post from an Iraq War Veteran
  • Anger, Retribution, Oh Crap, Splat.
  • Quis custodiet Custodes Ipsos?
  • ABA Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System
  • Can DUI Be Expunged in Texas?
  • Another Mark Bennett
  • Thoughts on Independence Day
  • DUI No-Refusal Weekend
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • Not Fail-Safe in the Courthouse
  • The Joe Horn Law
  • Also Heard at the Courthouse
  • Not Right, But Not a Crime
  • Badvertising Hall of Shame / ADA
  • No, Really, Thank You!
  • Book Review: Your Witness
  • Dirty DWI Secrets
  • Calling All Criminal Blawgers
  • DWI: Victimless Crime
  • To Blow or Not To Blow? A Little Texas DWI Law.
  • Believe in Karma
  • DWI Trial Tomorrow
  • Thoughts on Internet Marketing for Lawyers
  • Some Houston-Area (and elsewhere) Criminal Justice Links
  • North Texas Criminal Court and Jail Information
  • Survival Situations: What’s at Risk?
  • The Mind and Criminal Defense
  • Blind Strikes and Double Strikes
  • Based on Actual Facts
  • Is Only Kelly Siegler Man Enough to Tell the Truth?
  • A Cross-Examination Photo
  • Ollie the Cabdrivertising Criminal Attorney
  • Top 100, Depending Where You’re Counting From
  • Racehorse Haynes in Trial
  • A Common Fact Pattern
  • I Leave the Punchline Writing to You
  • Google Down?
  • Survival And Criminal Defense I
  • Actual Innocence in Collin County
  • Lawyering Rule of the Day
  • No More Sources For You! [Updated]
  • From Today’s Mailbag.
  • Judge Caprice Cosper
  • Life for Quintero
  • TOS Violations in Criminal Solicitation of a Minor Case
  • Probation Eligibility in Texas
  • What Lawyers’re Doing Across the Pond
  • Mack Arnold Fundraiser
  • New Poll: Rusty Duncan
  • Problems With Judge Voir Dire
  • For a Public Information Office
  • The Hired-Gun Prosecutor
  • Confidence-Inspiring
  • Suffering Laryngitis
  • That’s Why Prosecutors Shouldn’t Try POM Cases
  • Not Writing But Typing
  • Glen Rose, Texas, May 4, 2008
  • Which is Worse?
  • It Might Just Work
  • The Real News: AP is Clueless
  • Hoist With His Own Petard
  • Diplomatic?
  • What We Are vs. How We Act
  • The Myth of the Ruthless Lawyer
  • Asshat Lawyer of the Day
  • Too Broken?
  • Wanted: SQL Hacker
  • Wayne Green’s First Rule of Evidence and of Appellate Practice
  • Texas Amicus on Virginia v. Moore
  • A Tale of Two Associations
  • Virginia v. Moore in Texas
  • The Dignity of the Judicial Process
  • Things Only Civil Lawyers Would Say, Part I
  • ACDLA and The Reposa Affair
  • Always Ready, Seldom Prepared
  • Scientific Study of Genes’ Effect on Behavior
  • A Death in the Family
  • Fly the Friendly… No, Better Make That the Paranoid Antisemitic Skies
  • Sic Semper Tyrannis
  • Improvisational Blogging II
  • CLE Tomorrow
  • Introduction to Intake
  • The Martial Law Statute
  • … And Another 30 Days For Looking at Her Like That!
  • Larry Pozner’s Lessons Learned
  • Welcome, Former Prosecutors, to the Real World
  • Need Spreadsheet / Database Program for Monster File
  • WE Live Sheltered Lives
  • The Commerce Clause
  • Free Consultations No More?
  • Kevin McHenry of R.W. Lynch: Cluephone Ringing; It’s For You
  • Former Prosecutors III — A Specific Case
  • Lanyard Nation
  • Josh Karton in Houston
  • America’s Best Prosecutor?
  • Improvisational Blogging
  • For a Public Defender’s Office
  • Lykos Wins, in Case You Were Wondering
  • Commissioners Approve PD Study
  • On Today’s Harris County Commissioners Court Agenda
  • The UCC and the BAR
  • Do You Love the Law?
  • 70 “Predator” Probations
  • Reconsidering General Deterrence
  • The Only Viable Threat
  • Paging Malum
  • Three Stupid State Tricks
  • Rosenthal in Contempt
  • Nullification Resources
  • Jury Nullification: The Book
  • Story of the Day
  • No-Nazi Zone
  • Texas Medical Marijuana Acquittal
  • For Your Consideration
  • Truth and Jury Nullification
  • This F**kin F**ker’s F**ked.
  • Guest Post: Jury Nullification — A Prosecutor’s View
  • Know Anger, Know Fear. No Fear, No Anger.
  • The Importance of “Make People Afraid”
  • From Baboon to Caveman to…?
  • What I Learned Last Weekend
  • Strange Traffic Pattern
  • More Truth About Fear
  • New Way to Subscribe
  • Works on Voters, Too.
  • Mean, True, or Both?
  • Why We Must Keep the Church Out of Government
  • Subscribe to Comments
  • Next Time, Avoid Eye Contact
  • Why religion is Unavoidable
  • Blog Against Theocracy 2008
  • A Pistol is What You Use…
  • Changed “Who Are You?” Poll
  • Three Opinions
  • Happy Birthday
  • The Defense Investigator
  • Ignorant or Arrogant?
  • Another Poll: Who Are You
  • The Values Poll
  • Share Your Opinion on the WoD
  • Lost Patience
  • Anonymous Bloggers
  • The Mack Arnold Trust
  • DA Traits: Arrogance and Viciousness or Humility and Compassion
  • DA Magidson
  • P.P.S.
  • P.S.
  • New Blogging Software
  • Wire Writers Speak
  • The Wire
  • Proposed Change to Rule of Privilege in Texas Criminal Cases
  • Blog or Government Propaganda Tool?
  • Wednesday Evening Staff Meeting 2
  • The Code
  • More Proof that Higher Fees are Better
  • Dear Jim Leitner
  • Admit it: You Goofed.
  • No Such Thing as a Professional Juror
  • Three Republican DA Candidates
  • You’re Not Listening!
  • The Loss of Meaning
  • Mexico Discovers Due Process
  • The Wolf and the Yarmulke
  • Trial Lawyers and Litigators
  • Four Nasty Little Surprises
  • More of Dean and Me on the Marconi
  • Siegler Video is Up
  • Wednesday Evening Staff Meeting
  • Siegler Reasonable Doubt Video
  • New York is Definitely Different
  • The Best Free Show in Town
  • Carry Me
  • If You Come See Bennett & Bennett…
  • Faith-Based Legal Argument
  • Trial Again Tomorrow
  • Fond Memories of Snookems
  • The Lesser of the Two Evils
  • Lykos Reads the DA Playbook
  • Babies and Bathwater
  • Information Wants to Be Free
  • Real Bloggers Get DOSed
  • Dean and Me on the Marconi
  • Elsewhere
  • The Rorschach Ink-Blot Debate
  • The Mote and the Beam
  • Proper Accreditation
  • Thought for the Day
  • … Gone!
  • A Little Respect…
  • Copies
  • The Fourteenth Amendment Right to Sex Toys
  • National Politics
  • Happy Anniversary Friends
  • “Just” a DWI Jury Trial?
  • Me and Buford on the Teevee
  • Picked a Jury Today
  • Chron is Clueless Again
  • More Public Information from HCSO
  • Take Two Aspirin But…
  • Let the Government Clean Up its own Mess
  • Jury Trial Today
  • No More Contact With KHOU
  • Don’t Encourage KHOU
  • Todd, Pat and Me on the TeeVee
  • Ceci n’est pas une subpoena.
  • My Six Words
  • See the Republican DA Candidates! Live! All Nude!
  • It’s Tuesday, and Pat Lykos is Still Lame
  • The Question of Compassion
  • Chuck is Going… Going…
  • Morons.
  • Compassion and Sociopathy
  • A Lesson in Federal Contempt
  • Anonymous Commenters
  • Expert Needed
  • Don’t Contact Channel 11 About the Debate
  • Harris County Sheriff’s Email Retention Policy
  • TBI and Depression
  • TBI, PTSD, and Depression
  • Chuck’s Very Bad Day?
  • Unleash the Spin Hounds!
  • Chuck’s on the Stand…
  • KTRK Interview re Chuck Rosenthal
  • Time for a Change of Format?
  • Does Mensa Matter?
  • One of the Toughest Jobs in the World
  • Meet Pat Lykos
  • The Candidates’ Debate
  • Wall Street Journal Discovers TBI
  • Prosecutors and Judges: How is this Possibly Okay?
  • Phone Call from a Slave Ship
  • More on Boucher
  • My PGP Public Key
  • You Can Always Say No
  • Why Chuck Won’t Leave — Another Data Point
  • Why Chuck Won’t Leave
  • Who Am I Not?
  • Judiciary Public Information
  • The 174th District Court
  • Is there a Prosecutor Missing?
  • Ignorance is Strength
  • Protest too Much?
  • Damning with Faint Praise
  • The Uncashed Check
  • Is it Racist?
  • Mean Girls in the Blawgosphere!
  • Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?
  • Another Popularity Contest
  • Four out of Four Candidates Agree: Change is Needed
  • Mean Girls in the Courtroom?
  • New Harris County Criminal Justice Blawg
  • Harris County DA’s Diversity Policy is “Pretty Much Ignored”
  • What Tangled Webs…
  • The Heart of the Matter
  • Welcome Language Fans
  • The Rosenthal-Siegler DA’s Office (?)
  • The Prosecutor’s Reply
  • One Less Witness
  • O Canada
  • More on the Fifth
  • The Fifth
  • Memo to Kelly Siegler: Blame Canada
  • Done
  • Chuck to be Investigated?
  • The Harris County DA’s Office at Work
  • Celebrate Open Records Week!
  • My Train of Thought: Banishment… Transportation… Outlawry…
  • Sometimes All a Story Needs is the Right Headline
  • Trial Insurance
  • Republican Party Disagrees…
  • How is an Election Like a Marriage?
  • Chuck May Not Be Out; Kelly May Not Be In
  • By the Way…
  • So Long, Chuck
  • The Park Sex Sting
  • Who Will Be Our Next D.A.?
  • Back Again
  • Le Procureur Soleil de la Republique?
  • Your Tax Dollars at Waste
  • Government’s Talents
  • Chuck’s Apology
  • Lawyers Appreciate… The U.S. Constitution
  • Okay, but why the RIGHT ear?
  • Practical Blawgosphere Wiki
  • Why Try the Unwinnable?
  • Plea Plead Pleaded Pled? Please!
  • Logical Extreme
  • Practical Blawgosphere Wiki
  • Justice?
  • I’m Back
  • On Vacation
  • Offshore My Job? Not Bloody Likely!
  • Drug Defense Brainstorming
  • Failure to Testify
  • TSA = Thieves Shun Accountability
  • Juror Misconduct
  • Maybe Not the Strongest Self-Defense Case
  • Police Surveillance of a sort
  • Welcome Prosecutors
  • Flight to Nowhere
  • Give Me Cover
  • Becoming a Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer II
  • “We Will Show that the Defendant is a Con Artist”
  • Busting the Panel
  • How to Become a Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer
  • A Reader Writes
  • Another Beauty Contest
  • Just Pleading Guilty
  • Aimless Rambling
  • Legal History Query
  • Winning Despite Yourself
  • Jury Argument in Criminal Cases
  • Two Courthouses
  • The Tyro’s Return
  • Why Let Juries Sentence?
  • How to Start a Law Practice
  • Where are the Texas Experts?
  • Texas Murder Sentences: Probation to Death
  • Lawyers Who Never Lose
  • Game Over, Dude
  • Judicial Elections
  • A couple of Good Moments, and One Less Good
  • Bad Sports.
  • Jury No Longer Out.
  • Jury is Still Out
  • Federal Sex Offender Registration
  • Jury Watch
  • Jury is Out
  • Hit Me Again, Baby!
  • The Things We Carry
  • Cops Say the Nicest Things
  • The Motorcycle Rule of Cross-Examination
  • Letter or Spirit?
  • A Much Better Day
  • Trial Fuel
  • Not My Finest Day in Court
  • Picking a Jury
  • Compassion Revisited
  • Vote Early, Vote Often
  • The Ethics of Snitching 2
  • Crossing the Doctor — Gathering Your Pebbles
  • Terry MacCarthy in Plano
  • Doing the Right Thing in Collin County
  • Chapter 4, the Tao of Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering
  • The Ethics of Snitching
  • The Myth of Fingerprints 2
  • The No-Snitches Clause
  • Brits Discover Neurolaw, Rediscover Hume
  • Not Guilty. Wait… Never Mind.
  • Law School: Substance or Skills
  • Chapter 3, The Tao of Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering
  • The Next Step in Preparing to Cross-Examine the Doctor
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