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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Go Downtier
- New York Popularity Contest?
- Preparing to Cross-Examine the Doctor
- Know When to Shut Up
- Moderated Comments?
- Dealing With the State’s Expert: One Last Question
- Sharon Keller Cont’d
- More on Sharon “Killer” Keller Complaint
- I’m Mark Bennett. I Solve Problems.
- Chapter 2, The Tao of Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering
- Will Defend for Sex
- Keller Complaint
- Subpoenaing MySpace Records
- Foreign Blawgs
- The Same the World Over
- Sharon Keller Complaint
- Why Fear Luck?
- Ten Best? No Dice.
- Malum and Mao
- The Myth of Fingerprints
- Patriot Act Unconstitutional
- Chapter 1, The Tao of Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering
- In Waaaayyyyyyy Over His Head
- Cheap Meat or Prime?
- What Are You Wearing?
- Loyalty Oaths in the Courtroom
- Criminal Defense Contract v1
- Harris County Jail Population
- Russell Plea Bargain Agreement
- Do You Take Payments?
- Texas Bar Journal
- Skype
- Basics: Texas Sentencing Scheme
- About the Death Penalty
- Great Lawyer Advertising
- Time, Toil, Talent, and The Show
- Trial Mode Off
- Lawyer Personalities
- Manners
- Have Some Frickin’ Compassion!
- Stephen Gustitis’s Trial Blog
- Statute of the Day
- Advice to New Lawyers
- The Business of Practicing Law
- Sun Tzu and Lao Tse
- If You Have to Ask…
- Anger and Fear
- Dude, Where’s My Client?
- Why We Poll the Jury
- Have Fun
- Freedom vs. Safety vs. Charity
- Like Clients?
- Impending Trials
- Statements or Questions
- Mencken on Government
- Ghostblawging OK?
- Elsewhere…
- Resiliency
- Commodified Lawyering?
- If Nobody Talks, Everybody Walks
- TBI in McNews
- A Great Moment in Trial Lawyering
- DUI or DWI?
- Parties
- Hayneswatch
- About the Clients and Ethics
- Time to Take a Stand?
- Phone Records III (Updated 8 November 2011)
- “The Law is a Nymphomaniac”
- Lawyers who Guarantee Results — Advice to Clients
- Another Odd Sort of Victory
- Lying Liar Lawyers
- We Predators
- Managing the Risk of Child Sex Abuse
- Verisimilitude and Plausibility
- Miedo de Lenguajes
- The Texas Juror Experience Project
- Minnesota Weenies
- Teaching Jury Selection
- Our Cousins Down Under
- From Lynna, With Love
- For Want of a Nail…
- Red Teaming the Criminal Case
- Freedom vs. Safety
- Phone Records II
- Happy Birthday to Me.
- From the Mailbag
- Why Not?
- Client Confidentiality in Texas
- The Mind of the Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer
- The Case of the Stolen Client
- Advice to New Practical Blawgers
- Another Practical Blawger
- Everybody Knows You’re Supposed to Let the Client Stun You.
- Mea Maxima Culpa
- Privilege Breakdown
- More on Covering Your Ass
- Vanity
- Covering Your Ass
- Made With Mac
- The Detention Hearing in Federal Court
- Sometimes You Have to Bask
- Fox Requests Comment on New Henhouse-Guarding Standards
- Name that Sign!
- Could We Be Wrong?
- What Would You Do If… ?
- Six Witness Rules
- The Question, Revisited
- Who Broke the Internet?
- Digging Dirt
- No More Jury Probation for Murder in Texas
- Unimpressive.
- More on Representation for the Working Poor
- How Much is Too Much?
- Sex Offenders: Animals or Human Beings?
- How Much?
- Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
- Who Do You Want Representing You?
- Technicalities
- New Blog Worth Reading
- Welcome Prosecutors!
- An Unused Resource for Veterans with TBI
- Defining Reasonable Doubt
- Motion to Change the Facts
- What Else Cops Know
- More Advice to the Young Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer — Part 4. Politics and the Bar
- More Advice to the Young Criminal Defense Lawyer — Part 3. Volunteer, Low Bono, and Pro Bono
- More Legal First Aid
- Johnny Holmes and the Personal Moral Judgment
- Legal First Aid — DWI
- Lawyer Salaries
- The Snitch Lawyer
- More Advice to the Young Criminal Defense Lawyer — Part 2. Books and Movies
- Stop the MADDness
- Pistol-Packin’ Prosecutors — An Englishman’s Response
- More Advice to the Young Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer — Part 1. Boundaries
- More Advice to the Young Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer — Preface
- What is a Win?
- Who Are We?
- More DEA Skulduggery
- Duck!
- Prosecutorial Skulduggery Uncovered by Grits
- A Day in the Work of a Criminal Defense Lawyer
- Most Evil Legal Principles
- Wrong, Wrong, and… RIght?
- Politics and Defense
- The Second Simplest Story: A Prosecutor’s Account
- The Opposite of Fear
- Objects of Punishment in Federal Court
- The Problem of Volition 1
- Neuroscience and Neurolaw
- Practical Blawgosphere Rollcall
- test
- Mapping the Blogosphere
- An Odd Sort of Victory
- The Power of Fear
- More on Bennett’s Chainsaw
- Welcome to the Practical Blawgosphere
- Another Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer Heard From
- Law Group Bites the Dust
- The Nature of Freedom
- Judges’ Voir Dire
- How Common is TBI?
- Blawg Review — the Bill of Rights
- Humble Thanks
- Lawyer Advertising — the Next Iteration
- Badvertising
- Why is Snitching UnAmerican?
- Why TBI is Important
- The Abandonment of American Ideals
- Right v. Legal — an Example
- If Illegal ? Wrong, What Does “Wrong” Mean?
- Polygraph Examinations
- Read it Today.
- Happy Independence Day!
- How TBI Happens
- Allegations Never Presented to the Jury
- Statutory Minimum and Maximum Sentences
- Simplifying the Juror Accuracy Analysis
- Statistical Support for the Sixth Amendment
- Chaos and the “Official Woman”
- Free Legal Advice
- Federal Cases: “But I’ve Never in Trouble Before”
- A Criminal Case is a Lawsuit in which the Government is Suing a Person
- Right v. Wrong
- Who Are You Helping, and Who Are You Hurting?
- Us v. Them: A Prosecutor’s Perspective
- Occam’s Razor in the Criminal Courthouse
- Support the Troops — Acquit a Vet
- Good and Bad Voir Dire II
- PDs Better than Appointed Counsel
- How to Choose a Criminal Defense Lawyer
- The Other Costs of a Guilty Plea
- Good Fees Make Good Lawyers
- Something to Look for in a Criminal Defense Lawyer
- A Prosecutor Wins Despite Himself
- One Thing NOT to Look For in a Lawyer
- The Guilty Plea Cost-Benefit Analysis.
- Avvo III
- Texas or New York
- I Coulda Been a Contender!
- More on Avvo
- The Other Side of Texas’s Bloodlust
- How Many Cases?
- Us v. Them II
- Demented and Sad, but Social.
- Four More Good Things About Texas Criminal Defense Practice
- What’s that Roaring Sound?
- Us v. Them
- Lucky Stars — an Anti-Whine.
- Butterfly Knives
- Two More Blawgs for the Blawgroll
- Still More HCCLA Merchandise
- More HCCLA Merchandise
- Don’t Use the Government to Raise Your Kids
- Definition: Ex Parte
- Your Tax Dollars at Work
- Top 11 Criminal Law Blogs
- Jury Nullification Meme
- Read…
- Honoring the Dead with Destruction?
- Give Me the Darn File!
- Attorneys Making Bonds
- Welcome International Visitors
- A Silly Website
- Quote o’ the Day
- Suppression of Evidence by Juries in Texas
- Jury Sentencing in Texas
- Pro Bono
- Search Terms
- Is Trial Your Last Resort?
- Good Morning! I said, GOOD MORNING, CLASS!
- Bad Expunction News
- More on Scaled Questions in Criminal Jury Selection
- Quote of the Day
- Spreading Safety or Fear
- The Domestic Violence Assault Case
- HR 916 – a Dissenting Voice
- Quote of the Day
- The ACLU’s Decision Making Process
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