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    • Legal Oddities: Criminal Hairspray
    • Defending the Online Solicitation of a Minor Case
    • How to Choose the Best Drug-Possession Lawyer for Your Case
    • Choosing the Best Sex-Crime Attorney for Your Case
    • The Complex World of Enhanced Penalties in Criminal Cases
    • How to Choose the Best Criminal Lawyer Near You
    • Talking About Opening Statement
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    • Defenses and Affirmative Defenses in Texas
    • Entrapment in Texas: A Hard Sell
    • What Does PCSWID PG1 >400G Mean in Texas?
    • Robbery and Aggravated Robbery in Texas
    • Conspiracy and Aiding and Abetting: Texas and Federal Law Compared
    • Unraveling the Complexities of Money Laundering in Texas
    • The Difference Between Appeal and Habeas Corpus in Texas Criminal Cases
    • Defense of Forgery Cases in Texas
    • Short Take: Understanding Texas Prostitution and Solicitation Laws
    • Short Take: Jury Instructions in Texas
    • Ex parte Lo
    • Conflicts of Interest in Criminal Defense: How to Avoid Them
    • Only the Client’s Interests Matter in Criminal Defense
    • What Makes a Top Houston Criminal-Defense Lawyer?
    • Short Take: Expunction
    • Short Take: The Motion to Suppress
    • Short Take: Jury Selection
    • Short Take: Pretrial Litigation
    • Understanding Penalty Group I: The Most Serious Drug Offenses in Texas
    • Texas Controlled Substances by Penalty Group
    • Defending Non-Death Capital-Murder Cases in Texas: An Overview
    • The Rule Against Hearsay: An Overview
    • Why Hiring a Criminal-Defense Lawyer is Essential for Your Case
    • Why You Should Never Talk to the Police Without Your Lawyer Present
    • Fighting False Allegations of Online Solicitation of a Minor in Texas
    • Assault Charges in Texas – A Brief Overview
    • Understanding Texas Burglary Charges
    • Texas Theft Laws and Penalties
    • Navigating False Accusations: Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child
    • Postconviction Relief: Direct Appeals and Habeas Corpus
    • Defense of Family-Violence Cases
    • Defense of Drug Cases in Texas
    • Dismissals
    • Do not talk with anyone but the lawyer.
    • Get It in Writing!
    • We’ve got your back.
    • Hello, World
    • Top 100 Lawyers in the Galaxy
    • Moving On
    • The Trump Impeachment in Voir Dire
    • PSA: Ten-Year Sex-Offender Registration Offenses in Texas
    • Revenge Porn: Peanut Gallery Weighs In
    • Illinois Supreme Court Gets Revenge Porn Wrong
    • Revenge Porn Questions and Answers (Updated)
    • Texas National Send a Butt Pic to the Governor Day.
    • You’re Using Microsoft Word Wrong
    • The Kim Ogg Credibility Shitshow
    • Texas Court Holds Harassment Statute Unconstitutional
    • Jeffrey Epstein’s Forlorn Hope
    • 2018 Word of the Year
    • What’s Wrong with Moral Clarity
    • The Keystone of American Freedom
    • Respect Your Betters, Peon!
    • Why
    • Another Model of Charisma
    • Things to Make Congruent
    • A Charismatic Leadership Loop
    • So What Was That About?
    • Do This For Me
    • Some Thoughts on Loops in Interpersonal Relationships
    • Loops, Charisma, and War
    • Follow Up on MGA Garage Door Yelp Laundering
    • 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
    • Randy Sorrels for State Bar President
    • A Loss
    • Overbreadth: It’s Simpler than You Think
    • Against My Better Judgment
    • Lawyers Needed to Litigate Against R.W. Lynch
    • Never Argue Angry
    • Michael Corleone Gave Money to the Church
    • Contempt for the System? I Can’t Imagine Why!
    • Sometimes an Argument is Really an Argument
    • Declare Victory and Go Home
    • The Chase Bank Whodunnit
    • 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
    • Hagstette at Nuremberg.
    • “Yes” Sets, Compliance Sets, and Cross-Examination
    • Cargo-Cult Judging
    • Another Shot at Injustice
    • Too Little, Too Late
    • You Can’t Put Too Much Water in a Nuclear Reactor
    • Felonious Political Advertising
    • Credibility and Charisma for Criminal-Defense Lawyers
    • The Wrong Place for Common Sense
    • Origin Story
    • Lies We Tell (About) Juries
    • The Criminal Trial Lawyer’s Place in the World
    • My Attention, and Barriers to it
    • Why the Lo Test Will Prevail
    • Sterner Days for Texas Free-Speech Law
    • Texas’s New Nondisclosure Law
    • Let Squawk Do The Job
    • List of Harris County Jail Inmates Entitled to Immediate Release
    • 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]
    • Theory: Direct or Indirect Criminal Trial Advocacy
    • Old-School Ethical Heresies
    • Criminal Defense and the Societal-Good Heresy [updated]
    • Criminal-Defense Reading List
    • Attention, Rapport, and Loops
    • Meditations
    • The Seven Ws of Content-Based Restriction
    • 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
    • Alice’s Adventures in Lovett Hall
    • Free Speech in Georgia: Alive but Unwell
    • 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
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    • Outsource Your Marketing, DC Courts Edition
    • Harris County: A New Equilibrium?
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    • When Your Only Tool is a Hammer…
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    • Good News
    • Untitled
    • “The Other Threat”
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    • Don’t Say I Haven’t Warned You.
    • A Motivational Poster for Our Harris County Judges
    • The Lesson of Todd Akin
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    • 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
    • More Diverse Juries
    • 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
    • Thirteen Million Dollars
    • Earl Musick’s VIPRgate Letter
    • Harris County GOP and the PD Redux
    • About Those Eight METRO Felony Arrests
    • Happy Birthday Clarence Darrow
    • 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?
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