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Conspiracy and Aiding and Abetting: Texas and Federal Law Compared
Unraveling the Complexities of Money Laundering in Texas
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Defense of Forgery Cases in Texas
Short Take: Understanding Texas Prostitution and Solicitation Laws
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Only the Client's Interests Matter in Criminal Defense
What Makes a Top Houston Criminal-Defense Lawyer?
Short Take: Expunction
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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
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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
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
WWWWD?
Smart Cops and Ridgebacks
An American Political Spectrum
Apropos of Nothing…
Meet Ronald Ray, Sr.
The Sky is Definitely Not Falling
Keeping America Safe From Granny
At What Point?
The Legality of DIVERT
Dispatch from the Contempt Front
Two Solzhenitsyn Quotes
I Would Have…
Last Week in DA Politics
Harris County District Clerk Chris Daniel Done Good
UC-Davis: Sauce for the Gander
Buttercup Nation
Read This
Law Geek: Beaumont Court Gets Double Jeopardy Wrong.
What We're Up Against: Harmless Error
A Politicized Timeline, and a Lie. But I Repeat Myself. [Updated, with Transcript]
The BAT Van Contempt Hearing, Interpreted
The Brain and the Law
My BAT Van Contempt Guess [Updated]
This Is Supposed to Help?
The Secret Lives of Judges (corrected and updated)
The BAT Van Show-Cause Order
Live by the Hatchet, Die by the Hatchet
Houston DWI “BAT” Vans—A Timeline
¡Que Pendejosidad!
Falsus in Unum…
Welcome to the Blog, Amy Reynolds
Your Latest Trick (With Bonus Lawyers)
False Flags and Simpletons
Other States' Offenses Requiring Sex Offender Registration in Texas
Couplathree Thoughts
Taking Back “Reasonable”
Don't Do This
The Problem of the Working Poor, Illustrated
That's Just How We Roll
Guest Post: Sesha Kalapatapu on Rule 3.06
Letting the Imp Drive
Stop NACDL LeadRival Spam
[Not So] Good Expunction News
I Hope There's a Fourth Amendment in Heaven
My Amazon Bookstore
Aristotle Wept
Moral Foundations Matter
When Happy Thoughts Are Valued More Than True
Redemption Theory: All Stocked Up.
Federal Jury Selection: No Google for You!
Opray Onobay Ublicopay
Countering TSA Deindividuation
Not News
Fifteen at One Blow
Respond?
Too Honest to Be President
Today, Every Busybody's a King
California: The Vacuous State
Law Geek: The Circular 230 Ward Against Evil
TSA Mission Creep
Guest Post: Robb Fickman on Judicial Disrespect
Safe Enough?
A Public-Service Announcement, and What Did Dennis Baranowski Know?
Soliciting Criminal Clients by Mail After 1 September
From the Archives
TSA Thug Thedala Magee Threatens Suit
Racist Cops: Thanks for the Reasonable Doubt!
Two Lawyers Behaving Badly
Outsourcing and the Virtual Law Practice
CCP 21.15
NLSes Revisited
Ethos and the Two Johns
Harris County PD New Hires
A Court of Criminal Appeals Excrescence
John M. Regan, Jr.'s Bad Beat
Scare ‘Em
Overcivilization
Texas Civil Liability for Barratry
From the Mailbag: Rachel Kugel
LegalMatch Ethics
Branding Week, with Bonus Andy Nolen [Update]
For Future Reference
Selling Out?
Child Prostitutes = Nails?
Still Crazy After All These Years
Stanford and the Loss of Innocence
Help Put Steven Kramer's Arm on the Door
Good-Citizenship Tip
Disbar Nancy Grace for Being Repugnant? Are You High?
Another Bad Screening Arrest
Rakofsky's Ad to Replace Richard Borzouye
Carolyn Piphus is a Fool
19 States in 19 Days
Advertising in the News
A Lesson From the Casey Anthony Trial
Another Lawyer Being Fake Online
A Practice Tip
Was Joseph Rakofsky Ineffective?
RIP Jdog
Loose Ends: TSA Admits that its Security is Superfluous
Travis's Letter from the Alamo
NM: TSA to Oversee Prom Searches
Future's Hope
Who Doesn't Want Broader Jury Pools?
Nothing for Nothing
Indiana Cops Get the Keys to the Castle
Richard Borzouye: No Bad Publicity?
Compendium of Rakofsky (and Borzouye) v. Internet Blog Posts
The Rakofsky v. Internet Lawsuit(s)
Dear Texas Legislative Republican Cretins
Follow the Bouncing Hackneyed Ball
Texas Padilla Retroactivity News: Good and Weird
Notes on a Killing
Mean But Stupid
Krav Maga and Me
TCDLA Strike Force FTW
A Sound Basis
Home of the Craven
Give Generously; Make the Fat Man Run.
Texas Lawyers: Time to Vote Again
The Object Lesson of Joseph Rakofsky
NYT Punked. Again.
A Damn Good Start
In Your Face, Brett Ligon!
Potential Topics for the Criminal-Defense Skunkworks
Fleshing out the Criminal-Defense Skunkworks
Building the Criminal-Defense Skunkworks
A Bully Rorschach Test
Warning: 11-28-3 Lawyer Aloose on the Community
A Bad Lawyering Combination: 11-28-3
Dear FBI:
Pat Lykos: Wrong Once More
Results-Oriented Jurisprudence
Casuistry
TSA Grooming
“The Texas Supreme Court Made Us Do It!”
We Win. For the Moment.
Another Dispatch From Mr. X
Battle of the Neuropeptides
Texas Disciplinary Rules Referendum: Former Committee Member Urges “No” Vote
Law Geek: Retroactivity of Padilla v. Kentucky
A Tiger for HCCLA
Vote Now (and Vote No)
Texas Legislator Against Theocracy
Steve Fischer to Chief Justice Jefferson on the Bar Rules Amendment Referendum
Why Straight-Ticket Referendum Voting Is Right
Because We Said So
Other Blawgospheric Voices on the Referendum
An Unlawful Referendum
SBOT General Practice, Solos, and Small Firm Section: Vote “No.”
Where to Go to Vote “No”
The Referendum: A Former Chief Disciplinary Counsel's View
The Referendum: A PI Lawyer's Opinion
Ethos, Fleas, and Awesomeness
Flat Fee Fight: What's Really Going On?
Question D
The Rest of Question A
Are 10,000 Texas Criminal-Defense Lawyers Wrong on Flat Fees?
What the State Bar Thinks About Flat Fees
Refundability: When is a Fee Earned?
Freedom to Contract and Flat Fees
Do You Trust the State Bar?
Why Flat Fees Are Good for Clients
Texas Lawyers: “No” to the Proposed Amendments to the Texas Disciplinary Rules
Diverse Thoughts on a Great Tragedy
Extra! Extra! Some Guy Gets a 5K1!
Schadenfreude, Irony, and The Defense Function [Update: Photo Added]
Harris County's Appellate PDs. [Updated 29 December 2010]
But, Hey, it's Just Light Yellow.
Another Bad DWI Idea in Austin
Someday. Maybe. If I'm Really Good
Christmas Wrapup
Defense's First Brief in Opposition to Mandamus
Briefs in Texas v. Green Mandamus
Mandamus in Texas and the Green Case
Leaked Memorandum
Write Better Now
DOJ on Immigration Consequences
Fun With Stats, and Sex-Offender Registration All Around
The Science of SWRVs
Shame on You, Brett Ligon
God Help America
Attorney John C. Osborne
Crazy Days
Sgt. William Palmer
Chain of Fools
Mandamus in John Green Case
Sometimes Polite Language Will Not Suffice
John Green Death-Penalty Hearing and Pat Lykos's Game
Many Murderers Are No More Mentally Ill than You
Defense Experts in State v. Green
Bullies, Betas, and Unquestioning Compliance
How I'll Be Spending My Days
Robert's Rule #_
If He Offers to Show You His Wand, Refuse.
Why “Whatever it Takes” is Relevant
My Perspective on AIr Travel
Not Worth It
Blawg 100
More “Whatever it Takes” Quislings
Opt-Out Day an Unqualified Success
More Statistics
Domestic Extremists, Unite!
Okay, But Let's Haggle About the Price
Transportation Economics [Math Fixed]
Tom DeLay, Convicted Felon
Submit!
Lie Back and Think of England
The Big DIfference
Moral Foundations: Four Out of Five Ain't Bad
Smoke
Liberate the Mallcops!
Cooking the Books in Arizona
The Opposite of Irresponsible
Mallcops and Molesters
Avoid These Airports
Book Review: Typography for Lawyers
Introducing your Secret Name
QED
Harris County's First Public Defender
Yodle: because hytlr.com was already taken.
Yodle and NACDL
Yodle's “Stellar Record”
Yodle Lawyer Marketing Sucks
Bullying, Government, Betas
No Easy Cases. Please.
Vote for Loren Jackson
At Last.
Bring in the Real Lawyers
Is It Anything Like a “Concierge Attorney”?
Fake Ad Hominem, Cowardice, and Real Lawyers
Praise the Lord and Pass the Witness
The Great Lawyers' Strike of '10
It Only Looks Easy.
The Sobe Study
“On Behalf Of”
Totalitarianism Starts With Those Whom Society Hates
Don't Be Carlos Romious [Updated]
So You Want to Be a Lawyer
Sometimes the Power Elites Get it Right
The Blind Leading the Blind...
Too Much to Mock
Empathy and Cross-Examination
Witnesses Playing God
I Swear Loyalty to the Flag...
Brickbats for Lykos
Chris Daniel's interview, part 6 (in which I wrap it up)
Chris Daniel's interview, part 5 (in which he speaks out for illegal immigrants)
Chris Daniel's interview, part 4 (in which there is a vast conspiracy against him)
Chris Daniel's interview part 3 (in which he demonstrates the Dunning-Kruger effect)
Chris Daniel's Interview, part 2 (in which he waffles on terror and fudges on jury duty)
Chris Daniel's interview, part 1 (in which he removes all doubt)
Chris Daniel's Endorsement Lies
Blawg Review #284
Be Careful What You Ask For
Today Only?
There's Always a Prosecutor
Sometimes the Texas Legislature Gets it Right
Scared White Republican Fear of the Day: Third-World Document-Review Terrorists
Blogging Rules
Not Unethical, But Still Not Right
No Bono
One California Bankruptcy Lawyer Steps Into the Breach
Harris County District Clerk Candidate Chris “Lightweight” Daniel
Always... Except.
Scene at the Courthouse
Blawg Review #282
Hard Work and Quick Thinking
Nedlog's Rule
This Looks Like a Job For ACDLA!
The Grand Misdirect [With Final Update]
TM vs. TMI
Kenneth R. Kratz: “The Prize”
Trench Menu: Find Scott Greenfield
2010 Judicial Endorsements
2010 Harris County Judicial Races
The Reasonable Alternative Hypothesis Defense
From the Mailbag
20 Rules for Being a Criminal Defense Lawyer
Texas's Accomplice Witness Rule
After a Year of DIVERT
Trial Bonding
The TCDLA Politburo at Work
How Eyewitness Identification Works
Frendship and Friendship
PDs and Private Lawyers: Last Thoughts
PDs and Private Lawyers: The Missing Data
PDs and Private Lawyers: What the Numbers Mean
PDs and Private Lawyers: More Likely Than or As Likely As
Of PDs and Private Counsel
Now, What Else Can We Get “Clarified”?
“Years of Trial Experience”
Mmmmm…Chicha!
Partisan and Interested Magistrates?
Greenfield and the Teacup
Meet Carl
Attribution Redux
Justice, Injustice, And In Between
Property of the United States Taxpayer
The Determinist Libertarian
The Hunting of Justice (An Agony in Eight Fits)
Small Lesson
A(n Ex-)Prosecutor's Principles
PSA: The Left-Turn Yield
The Meat of the Coconut: Yet Another Aspiring Victim
Business Plan: Never Lose
A Legal Irony—Federal Firearms Law
10 Practical Rules for Dealing with the Borderline Personality
Texas's Non-Sex Sex Registration Offenses
Sparta Townson, “Internet Guru Girl”
Something We Learned at City Hall
The HPD “Don't Talk to Defense Lawyers” Memo
To An Anonymous Document Review
Thanks, Snake
Blog à Clef, for Now.
The Debriefing
Implicit Bias and Common Sense
Fighting Back Against Common Sense
Happy Revolution Day
The Declaration of Independence
Why Prosecution? Be Realistic.
Trick Questions
Mark's Typical Trial Schedule
Small Step Toward Scientific Jury Selection
Warning: This is Not the Happysphere
More Great UTMB Ideas
Actually, There Are Stupid Questions
They'd Have to Be Crazy
Trawling For Terrorists
... and, Erica, You're No Larry Joe
Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering = Chess
Shows Promise
Team Sport
A Class Act
Democracy Wins
Means and Ends
But My Way is Really Best
Fine News
At Least I'm Enjoying the Ride
More on Submission in Federal Criminal Court
If You Lose the Will to Win, You Will Lose.
Know What? Never Mind.
Unwaveringly Unwaiving
Desert-Island Book
One Thing I Learned Today
Back to Federal Court
Goosing Their Religion
How to Run for TCDLA Director or Officer
TCDLA's Broken Election Process
Steve Swanger / Olschwanger, Spammer
On Triage and Semantics
“I need a lawyer just to...”
Jury Suppression in Texas
HPD Officers Suspended
15 Years
The Trespass Problem I
Trial in Court 14: Voir Dire III
Trial in Court 14: Voir Dire II
Trial in Court 14: Voir Dire I
May Be Liveblogging Jury Trial
God Bless Judge David Hittner (Updated)
Ask Avvo
Rethinking Peeler
Judge Susan Brown: Praise the Lord and Bring Your Toothbrush [Updated]
Insurance [updated]
The New Kids on the Blawck
Use Immunity and Perjury
Clearing Criminal Records in Texas
What's Wrong With This Picture?
The Presumption of Innocence in Harris County
Jack Marshall, the Elmer Gantry of Ethics
The Tip of the Iceberg
No, Jack, That Blog Post Doesn't Make Your Butt Look Fat
Motion to Recuse in John Edward Green Case
And The Trail Has Its Own Stern Code
Padilla v. Kentucky
Take 2.8 Seconds. Be Thankful.
Hover Through Fog and Filthy Air
Procedure Geek: The Skinner Case [Updated 25 May 2010]
Ten Social Media Sex Secrets for Lawyers
Anonymous Quote of the Day
Nope, No Balm in Gilead. Sorry.
Three Years
John Coby Writes Blog Post With Words “Gay Nigger”
What is the Code for Lawyer?
Why is the Trial Lawyers College Afraid of these Three Women? [Updated]
Two New Blogs
Students' Responses to Judge Standley's Talk
Subpoenaing Out-Of-State Witnesses
Judge Standley and the MADDing Crowd
Crazy Days
Tried to Comment on Texas Lawyer Blog
Judge Fine and the Chronicle Back Off
Go Go Godzilla
Parsing the Made-Up News
Legal Education or Experience Not Required
Harris County Death Penalty Update: They Report, I Explain.
Judge Fine on the Constitutionality of 37.071
Even in Texas, Death Penalty Still Constitutional
Chris Dorbandt and Catalyst Design: Partners in Crime
An X-Gen Lawyer's Manifesto
Input Needed: Reptile in Criminal Cases
Reptiles Revisited: Lizards Don't Label [updated]
Chew on This, Losers!
Melissa Martin Wins in the Court of Criminal Appeals
Somebody Call the Tort Reformers.
Support Loren Jackson
Don't Pitch Me
CCCL3: Anyone But Sharolyn Wood
Lawyers For All
The Anthony Graves Retrial Pregame Show
Punishing the Prosecutor to Fit the Crime
Lawyer David DeCosta Cleared
Accidental DIVERT Coercion
If Halle Smith Had Been White, Would She Be Alive Today?
If He's an Expert, Then So Is My Dog
Anonymous Comment Reminder
Even If or Especially Since
Roeder, Padilla, Terry, Mohammed Part 1:Roeder
Read This Today
Google Blog Bundle
Internet Marketers and Other Scoundrels
“Awesome” Indeed.
Three Questions for Kerrville Lawyer Guy James Gray
16 Simple Rules, All Together
The Four Most Powerful Words in the Criminal Courthouse
Losing Sucks
The Uncashed Check
Petty Attorney Bullshit
The Question: Seven Answers
Federal Grand Jury in Maricopa County
Call this “Notice”
Michael Sokolow's Good Call
Harris County DUI/DWI DIVERT Agreement
Arizona Reading Comprehension Fail
Another Snitching Lawyer
More Mail from Arizona
From the Mailbag [Updated]
Two Things to Read Today
A Job for Fools (and Other Humans)
Fake Edmund Burke Was Wrong
New Podcast: Interview with Jim Belanger
This Might Cost Him the Chosen Vote
That's What They're Paying Him For, For One Thing
Maybe We Can Fix It At The Auto De Fe
Does Daniel Barrera Want To Ruin Defendants' Lives?
Bringing the Light to Maricopa
Why Do Maricopa County's Voters Hate the Constitution?
The First Annual Bloggers' Best Awards
Recent Maricopa County Blog Posts (Updated)
Why Maricopa County Matters
The Trace Experiment
Trial Lawyer Esoterica
“I've Handled Lots of These Cases”
How to Choose a (Cheaper) Criminal Defense Lawyer
They Skipped Those Days in Sunday School
New Blog
Without a Trace
The Ethics of Pathos, Part II
The Ethics of Pathos, Part I
Thoughts on Nobility, Justice, and Frblniz
Bradley Johnson Offers a Free Four-Part Symposium on Internet Marketing for Lawyers
Lizards Don't Laugh.
Getting Out of DIVERT?
Avvo Answhores (Updated 11/30/2009)
Outsource Your Marketing, 3000 Words Edition
The Potential Value of Naming Names
Jurisprudential Retardation: Rodriguez-Parra
Specialty Blog: Houston DWI
Convergence: Personal Sovereignty and Google Scholar
What the Hell is Wrong With the Maricopa County Criminal Bar?
Sixteen Rules for Lawyers Who (Think They) Want to Market Online
Why Federal Court is No Place for Amateurs
The Motion to Recuse
The Motion to Recuse
Prosecutors: Please Be More Careful
Tyler Flood Postscript
Your Witness... No, Not Literally
Comment Bug?
In Favor of Lawyer Exceptionalism
Waaaahhhh. Mine Hurts Too!
Everything Old is New Again
New Blog on the Blogroll
Lessons in Media Relations and Blogging, from Tyler Flood [Updated, and Again]
How to Choose a Criminal-Defense Lawyer
Disbar the Connecticut 5
Tyler Flood: The Drunk Driver's Lawyer?
Tyler Flood Can't Help Himself
Andy Nolen, Move Over!
Schmomises
Criminal Practice: The Treadmill
The Mississippi of the West
On Behalf of Matt Brown, You're Welcome.
The Victimocracy Strikes Back
Free Adam Reposa!
Stuff I Don't Want to Miss Mentioning
Coming Soon: Windshield Flyers
Couch Fees in Texas
Racehorse in Conflict
To What End?
Power, Responsibility
Honor, Integrity, Honesty, and Dignity
I'm Not Sure What to Think About...
The End of an Era?
The Jew With a Gun Next Door
The Media
I Confess, I Get All My Pop Culture From Randazza
David Martin, Willingham's Trial Lawyer, Speaks Up (Updated With New Links)
Injustice Through Ignorance
Waiving Conflict II
Waiving Conflict of Interest
Referrals
I Wish I'd Said It
Case Oddity
On Competence
“Ten Grand to Start”
A Better Way to Find Cellco Providers
Small-Town Client Myth
Please Join the NMDP.
The One Percent
Quote of the Day
On Blogging Ethics
No Easy Cases (Please!)
Cute. That's what you're going for?
Blog Problems?
Blatant Shoutout to Three New Blogs
The “Expert” Also Known as “Lunch”.
Jail Hell
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 16: The Herd Rule
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 15: The Bat Rule
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 14: The Atticus Finch Rule
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 13: The Undertow Rule
Reiteration
Two-Way Street
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 11: The Playing Doctor Rule
Stark Raving Ignorance
More Andy Nolen Marketing Follies.
Is it Just Me?
Helpful Hint
Criminal Liability for Judicial Murder in Texas
It's Never too Late to Repent, John and Johnny
Barrelscraping.
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 10: The Marathon Rule
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 9: The Beer Pong Rule
Jury Selection: Simple Rule zero: One Rule to Rule Them All
Want Revenge? Gain? Attention? Be a Witness!
To the New Blogger Asking for a Reciprocal Link
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 8: The Shrink Rule
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 7: Improv Rule II
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 6: Improv Rule I
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 5: MacCarthy's Bar Rule
Lethal Generosity Revisited
Tragedy Tomorrow...
Andy Nolen: Today's Last Chapter
Andy Nolen: Total Fraud?
The Continuing Adventures of “Lawyer” Andy Nolen
The Further Adventures of “Lawyer” Andy Nolen
Andy Nolen, “Lawyer” [Updated Again]
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 4: The 90/10 Rule
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 3: The Shrek Rule
Rules
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 2: The Blind Date Rule
Treatment For People Who... Don't Need It?
Jury Selection: Simple Rule 1: The Nike Rule
Reasonable Doubt Tonight, 7/30
Surgin' Diversion Coercion
Boucher Revisited
Simple Rules for Better Jury Selection [Updated]
Accessibility
A Man Among Prosecutorial Bloggers
Beverly Hills 78701
Odd.
Work-Life Balance, Explained
DWI Diversion in Harris County
Anita Mugeni: Criminal Defense Hero of the Day
New Additions to the Blogroll
No, You Are Not Publius.
Around the Blogs
Another Houston Superhero
Legal Ethics Heresy
Declaration: The Author's Cut, Restored
The Declaration of Independence
Proof that Lawyers Can Survive Without Honor.
The UCC: Ban it Fully, or Not at All.
Justice vs. The Law
Law and Justice Explained.
Fifteen Books for Becoming a Better Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer
The Hair in the Food, and Jury Selection
Keep the NPMSRP Alive!
Woody: Diddy?
Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers: How We Doin'?
Cop Blogs
The Credit Privacy Number (CPN) Scam
Asshat Lawyer of the Day Kirk Bernard
DIP... Stuff
Coming Soon: Retard Kolaches
New Post at Chron.Commons
Blogging on Chron.commons
The Club
The Rich Pay to Play; Let the Poor Eat Cake.
Pretrial Diversion for DWI
I Wouldn't Hire Your Kine.
This is the Guy that Texas Prosecutors Have Teaching them Ethics.
HCDP Judicial Candidates: Who Are These People?
Press Release
Legislating Policy from the Bench: Five Examples
Warren, What's Your Tribe?
Liability for Court-Appointed Counsel
Mental Health First Aid Class
Fred's Day in Court
The Blind Leading the Blind
Read Defending People on Your Kindle
Because The Customer Is, At That Point, Often Wrong
Paladin Didn't Charge Split Fees.
DA's Office Does Right
The “Prosecuting Policy” Argument
Guantanamo Newspeak
Torture Segue #1
The Right Way and the Wrong Way
Happy Victims' Week!
George Weissfisch's Ideas Two Through Six
Sausage
Support Ovarian Cancer Research
Keller Impeachment
Geoff Berg's News Wrap With Judge Ken Wise and Me
Why the Torture Memos Upset Me
Texas House Resolution to Investigate Sharon Keller
Bad Judicial Behavior
A Couple of Questions on Torture
Arizona v. Gant
Why Someone Has to Go to Prison for Waterboarding
New Ideas at HCDAO? Unwelcome!
Dispatch from Rock Bottom
The Defending People Contest Contest
Shame on You, Jeff Bezos.
TLC Alumni Blogs
New Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog
Last Week's Reasonable Doubt
Quanell X on Reasonable Doubt
Revisiting the Problem of the Working Poor
Easter Bunny Pwnd
Save it for Court
My Latest Non-Lawyering Project
Are You Gonna Make Me Beg?
2.25 GB Free
It's Not Just Cops
Why I Don't Make the Big Decisions
Meet Your Overlords
The End Result
Reasonable Doubt With Jim Leitner
Voir Dire Notes: The Accused
Jury Selection Catch-22
DEA Agent Manual Notes
Could You Send Me Some Comment Spam Instead?
Strange Comment Spam
ICE: Policy's Effect on Immigration Would Be Minimal
This'll teach her.
Another Brilliant Idea from Lykos and Company
Sharon Keller's Been a Bad, Bad Girl
A Quick Study
Rick Casey Gets it Right
Pat Lykos is Wrong. Again.
At the Republican Party Banquet
HCDA Whale Fail!
Sharon Keller's Response
Straight Into Solo
An Embarrassment Even to Criminal Defense Lawyers
Stupid Neologism of the Day
Brother Dave and Immanuel Kant
HCCLA Reasonable Doubt August 14, 2008
HCCLA Reasonable Doubt August 7, 2008
HCCLA Reasonable Doubt July 31, 2008
HCCLA Reasonable Doubt March 12, 2009
HCCLA Reasonable Doubt March 5, 2009
HCCLA Reasonable Doubt
Criminal Law Band-Aids
Today's Houston Criminal Law News
Praise Where Due
Convergence
An Apology
Aggressive Criminal Lawyer? No, Thanks.
Here Comes the Judge
I'll Take the “Over”
Why Challenges for Cause Aren't Enough
On Reasonable Doubt
Peremptories — Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em?
My Brother Russ, in His Garden
Applied Ethics
Reprise: Prosecutors and Judges: How is this Possibly Okay?
R.W. Lynch Raises Its Ugly Head Again
Don't Dial 9-1-1
Prosecutors Are So Dreeeeeeamy!
A Defending People Retrospective
Post #999 – A Taste of Things to Come
Pat Lykos's Diversity Record
When Official Woman Kills
Steenking Batches
Cross is Not Supposed to Be Angry
Blog for Profit. Please.
Blawg Review #199
Corporate Bully Nordstrom Speaks With Forked Tongue
The Law on Poisoning the Jury Pool
A Letter to Blake Nordstrom
The NAS TBI Report
AGs, “Predators”, and Manufactured Fear
Bravest of All at 451 Degrees
Several Recent Additions to the Blogroll
Blawg Reviews 198 and 199
Stand and Deliver in Tenaha
The Colorado Supreme Court Notices Francis M. Pignatelli
Newbie Defense Lawyers
Linxmonster = Pwned
How to Fix the System
Very Conservative Politics, Very Liberal Spelling
To a Criminal Defense Lawyer Who Just Lost a Case
Ghost-Town Marketing Morons: Linxmonster
Prosecutors Help People, But How Often?
Criminal Liability Under the CPSIA
Ex-Judge Hanger
Transcript of CharonQC's John Kane Interview
Williamson County Discovery
More for Our Colleagues Across the Pond
Entitled Asshat of the Day
Pignatelli Revisited
“The Lateral Hire”; or “Nuckin Futs”
Listen to This Today
Newman in the Houston Press
From the Mailbag
It's Thursday, and R.W. Lynch Still Lies
Free Goodies from ASTC
Irony or Stupidity?
What Kind of Schmuck Would Hire Frank Pignatelli?
Why the Why?
Offense Report Copies
CharonQC's Podcast #90
Worst Jury Selection Advice Ever: Don't Listen
Call for Articles
Powerful Word Magic
Ken at Popehat Kicks the LA Times's Journalistic Butt
Complex Questions and Children
Prosecutors Protecting Children (But Only When It's Convenient)
Legal Sufficiency and Proof
If You See the High Ground, Take It
The Uncashed Check
Greed is Not Good
New Harris County Blog
J'accuse
Say It. Draw It. Act It.
An Interesting Court-Appointed Fee Arrangement
Texas Criminal Legislation in the Works
A Scavenger's Feast, Delivered
How to Turn Villains Into Victims
Do Not Go To Law School
Open Letter to the Judiciary
Wait: “Temporary Attorney” is a Career?
Maybe He Meant it as Praise?
In Support of the Nudge
This Is What They Teach at Georgetown?
Advice to a Young Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer (bump)
Mock Trial and Real Trial
The Smell of Fear / The Smell of Sex
Maybe My Favorite Old Blog Post...
Writing Sample
Pride
I Demand a Recount
Prosecutors: We're Punishing Sinners
A Different Sort of Red Light Camera, and A Surprise for Bal'mer
I Would Bet That It Has
Blame Brain Drain?
Three Notable Developments Across the Pond
Bad Lawyer. No Cookie.
Ethos
Newspeak of the Day
HPD and Video Redux
All for Want of a Horseshoe Nail
RIP
The Coronation Poll
Memo to Future Lawyers
Are You Man or Mutton?
Lykos, Meet Streisand
Car Keyers and the Importance of Having Gideon
Rescheduled From This Thursday
Justice vs. Fairness
Because Sometimes We Buy Our Own Bullshit
Big Trouble Only
Georgia Wants to Kill
More on Mark Sandoval
More Trial Music
For Your Listening Pleasure
Criminal Defense Chat with Scott Greenfield
Frivolous Conflicted Representation. Where Else but Harris County?
Everybody Gets Convicted Anyway
Because “Sue” Was Already Taken
Freedom vs. Safety
Murphy's Law of Investigation
A Heck of a ($618,000 ) Job
Federal Convictions Reversed
Sent to me by a Smiling Judge
Vote for Simple Justice
Toxic Blog of the Day
Thoughts on a Hanging
RTF(F)M.
No News is Good News
Be the Best or Go Home
Also, Firings Will Continue Till Morale Improves
Add to List of Things That Don't Happen When You Plead Guilty
Nobody Beats Up My Brother But Me
Another Great Thing About Being a Criminal Defense Lawyer
The Fallacy of Godlike Wisdom
Blog Down
Blog Down
It's Wednesday Morning, and DUI Hotline Network Still Sucks.
For My Friends, Formerly of the DA's Office
Want to Spend Less on Defense? Spend Less on Offense.
Internet Marketing for Lawyers: Here Be Dragons!
Week of Republican Hatchet Jobs Continues
New Rule: No Links to Blatant Marketing Blogs
The Outlying Counties
Another Opportunity to Vote for Grits or Simple Justice
Who's Spending Your Marketing Money?
The Coming TOS Boom.
Power Doesn't Like Truth
Rotten Tomatoes or Peeled Grapes for Scott Andringa?
Somewhere Napoleon is Smiling
Matt Shirk, You Are the Weakest Link.
Look on the Bright Side: This Way You Can Do It on the Clock
Memo to Non-Criminal Defense Lawyers
Nothing to Do with PDs and Private Lawyers
Gen Y Not as Savvy as They Say?
What if They Gave a WOD and Nobody Came?
Near the Khyber Pass, 1985/6
Texas's Medical Marijuana Bill
Frankly, I'd Rather Mail You a Check and Burn the $4.95.
I Want Angry Jurors With Low Self-Esteem
Real Life Experience, Applied
Lethal Generosity in the Legal Profession
Three Guys in Desperate Need of Razors
Next Week is “Get to Know a Fellow Blogger” Week
JDSupra. Give Content, Get Your Clients Noticed?
NACDL Seminar?
What Rhymes With “Brutal Thug”?
ADA: Advertising Makes the Man Edition
New Judges and Reversal Rates
New Judges: Coda – Size Doesn't Matter
Need Help
That Sharolyn Wood Is Such a Joker.
The New Judges: How Bad?
An Historic Election
The Fifth Amendment Privilege Redux
Get that Title!
Interpret or Make Law?
Another Approach to Death-Qualified Jurors
Probation vs. Prison
Troy Davis
In Trial
Blogging Politics
The Nature of the Job
Notes From DEA Law of Deadly Force Class
A Flyspeck Here, a Flyspeck Here, and Pretty Soon You're Up to 12 Million Dollars.
Not, in the Usual Sense, Criminal Law
Improv, Trial, and Politics
Diana Moon Glampers for Vice President
Funny the Things You Learn When You RTFM
C.O. Bradford on Reasonable Doubt
And By the Way, What Ever Happened to &?
Memo to Marketers
Now It Makes Sense.
Texas: Still a Contender
A Tale of Two DUIs
Be Afraid... But Not That Afraid
Proposition of the Week
Who Are These People?
The Best Criminal Defense Lawyer in Houston
Thus Spake Brian
Reciprocal Discovery, Anyone?
Six Things; or, Does the Market Have Buddha-Nature?
Jefferson on the Wisdom of the People
Unexpected Happy Endings
Looking for Your Money on the Street Where You Lost It
A DUI Trial on Unmapped Uneven Terrain.
Video Special: More of the Same
Just Say “Gosh, No!” to Dullards in High Office
More on those Ominous Black Boxes
Abe Maslow, Jury Consultant
I am Highly Amused
Big Brother on Wheels
Of Berries, Durians, and Jean Valjean
Biggest. Blank. Check. Ever!
Spring 1987
Not Just a Little Bit Overboard.
Spring 1986
Join NACDL
Genuine John McCain POW Bracelet
Yeah, Um, I Think We'll Pass on This One.
Politics
Downtown Debeautification Project
The Game is Afoot
A Few More Post-Ike Photos
Hurricane update day 3
Hurricane Update 0840
Hurricane Update 0315
Asshat of the Day – Hurricane Ike Edition
Hurricane Ike Update – 2130h
Hurricane Ike Update – 2015h
Hurricane News
Storm Update
Seen in the Neighborhood
Paging Mrs. MalAProp
I'll Let Someone Else Judge Whether That Was Appropriate.
About Thinking
I Trully Hope She Learns From This Expiernce!
It's Almost Mesmerizing
More Special Prosecutors
NLS Tactics and Strategy
Welcome to Downtown; Don't Pick Up Any Hitchhikers.
Rolls, ¡sí! Pay tickets, ¡no!
You Know Your Organization is in Trouble When...
A Special Prosecutor
The Houston Justice League
Testing
Raises for Prosecutors and Defenders, or More Pork for Other Projects?
A Little Sunday TJ
Everyday Incidents
Tell Me Again Who the Victim of this Particular Crime Is?
Naivete
The Secret to Winning: Bennett-Style
Bad Cop! No Donut!
Dialing for Defense Dollars
Scott Greenfield Blogs Mimi Coffey
Jury Trials Blowing Away
Naptime in the Courtroom
Read this Book
Practical Blawgosphere, Scavenging Department
Federal Mortgage Fraud in Texas = Payday for Criminal Defense Lawyers?
New Contributor to the Practical Blawgosphere
Bad DUI Advice and Internet Anonymity
Officers, You're Doing a Heck of a Job.
Million-Dollar Legal Advice
Last Thursday's Reasonable Doubt
Arrogant, or Just Dim?
First Blog from TLC
The Client's Decisions, the Lawyer's, and Chastisement to Insolent Pups
The Scavenging Thread
I Thought I was an Infomaniac...
“A Marvelous and Precarious Machine”
Ask the Legal Marketing Guru
Marketing the Hired-Gun Prosecutor
Must-Watch TV
Love in the Air?
Would a Group of Lawyers Offering this Service be a “Cover Band”?
From the Harris County Sexually Oriented Enterprise Regulations
Wednesday Lagniappe
Ego
The Trick Question: Prosecutors' Questions Answered, and Answers Questioned
More on the “One-Witness Rule” Trick Question in Jury Selection
The Dubois, Wyoming Blawgers' Convention
The One-Witness Rule
Untitled 8
Another Odd Victory
One Double Strike
Trial Psychosis
To My Republican Friends
In Trial*
The Right Way to Give Up a Case
From the Houston Criminal Law News
Untitled 4
The Miami Motion to Substitute
Congratulations!
Take That, Fort Collins!
New Harris County Criminal Law Blog
Guest Post from an Iraq War Veteran
Anger, Retribution, Oh Crap, Splat.
Quis custodiet Custodes Ipsos?
ABA Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System
Can DUI Be Expunged in Texas?
Another Mark Bennett
Thoughts on Independence Day
DUI No-Refusal Weekend
The Declaration of Independence
Not Fail-Safe in the Courthouse
The Joe Horn Law
Also Heard at the Courthouse
Not Right, But Not a Crime
Badvertising Hall of Shame / ADA
No, Really, Thank You!
Book Review: Your Witness
Dirty DWI Secrets
Calling All Criminal Blawgers
DWI: Victimless Crime
To Blow or Not To Blow? A Little Texas DWI Law.
Believe in Karma
DWI Trial Tomorrow
Thoughts on Internet Marketing for Lawyers
Some Houston-Area (and elsewhere) Criminal Justice Links
North Texas Criminal Court and Jail Information
Survival Situations: What's at Risk?
The Mind and Criminal Defense
Blind Strikes and Double Strikes
Based on Actual Facts
Is Only Kelly Siegler Man Enough to Tell the Truth?
A Cross-Examination Photo
Ollie the Cabdrivertising Criminal Attorney
Top 100, Depending Where You're Counting From
Racehorse Haynes in Trial
A Common Fact Pattern
I Leave the Punchline Writing to You
Google Down?
Survival And Criminal Defense I
Actual Innocence in Collin County
Lawyering Rule of the Day
No More Sources For You! [Updated]
From Today's Mailbag.
Judge Caprice Cosper
Life for Quintero
TOS Violations in Criminal Solicitation of a Minor Case
Probation Eligibility in Texas
What Lawyers're Doing Across the Pond
Mack Arnold Fundraiser
New Poll: Rusty Duncan
Problems With Judge Voir Dire
For a Public Information Office
The Hired-Gun Prosecutor
Confidence-Inspiring
Suffering Laryngitis
That's Why Prosecutors Shouldn't Try POM Cases
Not Writing But Typing
Glen Rose, Texas, May 4, 2008
Which is Worse?
It Might Just Work
The Real News: AP is Clueless
Hoist With His Own Petard
Diplomatic?
What We Are vs. How We Act
The Myth of the Ruthless Lawyer
Asshat Lawyer of the Day
Too Broken?
Wanted: SQL Hacker
Wayne Green's First Rule of Evidence and of Appellate Practice
Texas Amicus on Virginia v. Moore
A Tale of Two Associations
Virginia v. Moore in Texas
The Dignity of the Judicial Process
Things Only Civil Lawyers Would Say, Part I
ACDLA and The Reposa Affair
Always Ready, Seldom Prepared
Scientific Study of Genes' Effect on Behavior
A Death in the Family
Fly the Friendly... No, Better Make That the Paranoid Antisemitic Skies
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Improvisational Blogging II
CLE Tomorrow
Introduction to Intake
The Martial Law Statute
... And Another 30 Days For Looking at Her Like That!
Larry Pozner's Lessons Learned
Welcome, Former Prosecutors, to the Real World
Need Spreadsheet / Database Program for Monster File
WE Live Sheltered Lives
The Commerce Clause
Free Consultations No More?
Kevin McHenry of R.W. Lynch: Cluephone Ringing; It's For You
Former Prosecutors III — A Specific Case
Lanyard Nation
Josh Karton in Houston
America's Best Prosecutor?
Improvisational Blogging
For a Public Defender's Office
Lykos Wins, in Case You Were Wondering
Commissioners Approve PD Study
On Today's Harris County Commissioners Court Agenda
The UCC and the BAR
Do You Love the Law?
70 “Predator” Probations
Reconsidering General Deterrence
The Only Viable Threat
Paging Malum
Three Stupid State Tricks
Rosenthal in Contempt
Nullification Resources
Jury Nullification: The Book
Story of the Day
No-Nazi Zone
Texas Medical Marijuana Acquittal
For Your Consideration
Truth and Jury Nullification
This F**kin F**ker's F**ked.
Guest Post: Jury Nullification — A Prosecutor's View
Know Anger, Know Fear. No Fear, No Anger.
The Importance of “Make People Afraid”
From Baboon to Caveman to...?
What I Learned Last Weekend
Strange Traffic Pattern
More Truth About Fear
New Way to Subscribe
Works on Voters, Too.
Mean, True, or Both?
Why We Must Keep the Church Out of Government
Subscribe to Comments
Next Time, Avoid Eye Contact
Why religion is Unavoidable
Blog Against Theocracy 2008
A Pistol is What You Use...
Changed “Who Are You?” Poll
Three Opinions
Happy Birthday
The Defense Investigator
Ignorant or Arrogant?
Another Poll: Who Are You
The Values Poll
Share Your Opinion on the WoD
Lost Patience
Anonymous Bloggers
The Mack Arnold Trust
DA Traits: Arrogance and Viciousness or Humility and Compassion
DA Magidson
P.P.S.
P.S.
New Blogging Software
Wire Writers Speak
The Wire
Proposed Change to Rule of Privilege in Texas Criminal Cases
Blog or Government Propaganda Tool?
Wednesday Evening Staff Meeting 2
The Code
More Proof that Higher Fees are Better
Dear Jim Leitner
Admit it: You Goofed.
No Such Thing as a Professional Juror
Three Republican DA Candidates
You're Not Listening!
The Loss of Meaning
Mexico Discovers Due Process
The Wolf and the Yarmulke
Trial Lawyers and Litigators
Four Nasty Little Surprises
More of Dean and Me on the Marconi
Siegler Video is Up
Wednesday Evening Staff Meeting
Siegler Reasonable Doubt Video
New York is Definitely Different
The Best Free Show in Town
Carry Me
If You Come See Bennett & Bennett...
Faith-Based Legal Argument
Trial Again Tomorrow
Fond Memories of Snookems
The Lesser of the Two Evils
Lykos Reads the DA Playbook
Babies and Bathwater
Information Wants to Be Free
Real Bloggers Get DOSed
Dean and Me on the Marconi
Elsewhere
The Rorschach Ink-Blot Debate
The Mote and the Beam
Proper Accreditation
Thought for the Day
... Gone!
A Little Respect...
Copies
The Fourteenth Amendment Right to Sex Toys
National Politics
Happy Anniversary Friends
“Just” a DWI Jury Trial?
Me and Buford on the Teevee
Picked a Jury Today
Chron is Clueless Again
More Public Information from HCSO
Take Two Aspirin But...
Let the Government Clean Up its own Mess
Jury Trial Today
No More Contact With KHOU
Don't Encourage KHOU
Todd, Pat and Me on the TeeVee
Ceci n'est pas une subpoena.
My Six Words
See the Republican DA Candidates! Live! All Nude!
It's Tuesday, and Pat Lykos is Still Lame
The Question of Compassion
Chuck is Going... Going...
Morons.
Compassion and Sociopathy
A Lesson in Federal Contempt
Anonymous Commenters
Expert Needed
Don't Contact Channel 11 About the Debate
Harris County Sheriff's Email Retention Policy
TBI and Depression
TBI, PTSD, and Depression
Chuck's Very Bad Day?
Unleash the Spin Hounds!
Chuck's on the Stand...
KTRK Interview re Chuck Rosenthal
Time for a Change of Format?
Does Mensa Matter?
One of the Toughest Jobs in the World
Meet Pat Lykos
The Candidates' Debate
Wall Street Journal Discovers TBI
Prosecutors and Judges: How is this Possibly Okay?
Phone Call from a Slave Ship
More on Boucher
My PGP Public Key
You Can Always Say No
Why Chuck Won't Leave — Another Data Point
Why Chuck Won't Leave
Who Am I Not?
Judiciary Public Information
The 174th District Court
Is there a Prosecutor Missing?
Ignorance is Strength
Protest too Much?
Damning with Faint Praise
The Uncashed Check
Is it Racist?
Mean Girls in the Blawgosphere!
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?
Another Popularity Contest
Four out of Four Candidates Agree: Change is Needed
Mean Girls in the Courtroom?
New Harris County Criminal Justice Blawg
Harris County DA's Diversity Policy is “Pretty Much Ignored”
What Tangled Webs...
The Heart of the Matter
Welcome Language Fans
The Rosenthal-Siegler DA's Office (?)
The Prosecutor's Reply
One Less Witness
O Canada
More on the Fifth
The Fifth
Memo to Kelly Siegler: Blame Canada
Done
Chuck to be Investigated?
The Harris County DA's Office at Work
Celebrate Open Records Week!
My Train of Thought: Banishment... Transportation... Outlawry...
Sometimes All a Story Needs is the Right Headline
Trial Insurance
Republican Party Disagrees...
How is an Election Like a Marriage?
Chuck May Not Be Out; Kelly May Not Be In
By the Way...
So Long, Chuck
The Park Sex Sting
Who Will Be Our Next D.A.?
Back Again
Le Procureur Soleil de la Republique?
Your Tax Dollars at Waste
Government's Talents
Chuck's Apology
Lawyers Appreciate... The U.S. Constitution
Okay, but why the RIGHT ear?
Practical Blawgosphere Wiki
Why Try the Unwinnable?
Plea Plead Pleaded Pled? Please!
Logical Extreme
Practical Blawgosphere Wiki
Justice?
I'm Back
On Vacation
Offshore My Job? Not Bloody Likely!
Drug Defense Brainstorming
Failure to Testify
TSA = Thieves Shun Accountability
Juror Misconduct
Maybe Not the Strongest Self-Defense Case
Police Surveillance of a sort
Welcome Prosecutors
Flight to Nowhere
Give Me Cover
Becoming a Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer II
“We Will Show that the Defendant is a Con Artist”
Busting the Panel
How to Become a Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer
A Reader Writes
Another Beauty Contest
Just Pleading Guilty
Aimless Rambling
Legal History Query
Winning Despite Yourself
Jury Argument in Criminal Cases
Two Courthouses
The Tyro's Return
Why Let Juries Sentence?
How to Start a Law Practice
Where are the Texas Experts?
Texas Murder Sentences: Probation to Death
Lawyers Who Never Lose
Game Over, Dude
Judicial Elections
A couple of Good Moments, and One Less Good
Bad Sports.
Jury No Longer Out.
Jury is Still Out
Federal Sex Offender Registration
Jury Watch
Jury is Out
Hit Me Again, Baby!
The Things We Carry
Cops Say the Nicest Things
The Motorcycle Rule of Cross-Examination
Letter or Spirit?
A Much Better Day
Trial Fuel
Not My Finest Day in Court
Picking a Jury
Compassion Revisited
Vote Early, Vote Often
The Ethics of Snitching 2
Crossing the Doctor — Gathering Your Pebbles
Terry MacCarthy in Plano
Doing the Right Thing in Collin County
Chapter 4, the Tao of Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering
The Ethics of Snitching
The Myth of Fingerprints 2
The No-Snitches Clause
Brits Discover Neurolaw, Rediscover Hume
Not Guilty. Wait... Never Mind.
Law School: Substance or Skills
Chapter 3, The Tao of Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering
The Next Step in Preparing to Cross-Examine the Doctor
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
Cheap Meat or Prime?
In Waaaayyyyyyy Over His Head
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
Sad and Ironic but Not Surprising
Doing the Right Thing? It Could Cost You!
Warrantless DWI Blood Draws, and a Urinary Catheter
“The Question” and Compassion
The Artist as Frustrated Lawyer
Scaled Questions in Jury Selection
The Other Problem With Hourly Billing
How is Baseball Like Trial?
My Voir Dire Fetish
The Bar Poll
Getting the Jurors' True Feelings
Prior Inconsistent Statements
A Prosecutor's Voir Dire: Lessons
Why I Do It
In Trial Again... Almost
Three Rules for Dealing with the Media (When You Can't Talk to Them)
Five Questions
The Presumption of Innocence
Terry MacCarthy Cross-Examination CDs
A Truly Compassionate Profession Redux
Group Voir Dire II
Bad Voir Dire / Good Voir Dire
Top 10 Criminal Defense Blog
Group Voir Dire
High-Profile Cases
Video and Banquet
Schrödinger's Jury
How to End the Witchhunt
Terrence MacCarthy and Milton Erickson
“Faith-Based Science”
HCCLA Merchandise
Prison Article
Another Common Ethical Violation
State Constitutions
Plain English
The Client Manifesto
How to Stifle Creativity
Radical Stuff
Brain Scans
Former Prosecutors II
TLC Lawyers' Blogs
Weed in the Car
Still More on Nonjudgmental Jurors
More on Nonjudgmental Jurors
Quote of the Day
Nonjudgmental Jurors
The Art
Indefensible
Get Out of Jail Free
Prosecutorial Memes.
In Trial Today
Dealing With the Media and Fighting Like You Mean It.
Advice to a Young Criminal Trial Lawyer
Cops and Lawyers
Happy Birthday to Underdog Blog
DWI and Automatism
Arrest Them All, Let the Grand Jury Sort Them Out!
Different Sorts of Justice
Why We Do What We Do
Factual Guilt vs. Legal Guilt
Lawyers Doing Nothing
Nonsexist Language
Today's Quote
Ethical Fee-Setting
Extortion
More On Lawyers Using Clients' Names in Publicity
More on TBI
Letter Lawyers
Voir Dire Question
Lawyers Who Don't Care
More on State's Rights
Traumatic Brain Injury
A Very Good Day
Another Poem
A Poem
Trial Technologies Reading List 1
A Pirate's Life for Me
Imprisonment for Debt
Tainting the Jury Pool II
Tainting the Jury Pool
Altered States in the Courtroom
Legalize Methamphetamine
Order of Argument
State's Rights
Verse of the Day
A Too-Common Ethical Violation
Two Kinds of People
Who Should Go to Prison?
Intellectual Property?
More on Creativity
The War on Drugs
Where are the Women?
Trust
Good Advice
Federal Drug Conspiracies
Former Prosecutors
Lawyer Advertising
A Childlike Mind
A Great Day in Criminal Law History.
Pistol-Packin' Prosecutors
Other Trial Technologies
Why Mindfulness Matters in Trial
Mindfulness
Beating up on the Mentally Ill
Pot Calls Kettle Black
Introduction
Changes to Nondisclosure of Deferred Adjudication in Texas
Clients Aren't Property
Whew.
A Response to a Reader
Taking Responsibility
The Emperor's Clothes
"Make No Mistake"
To my Republican Friends
Who's a Rat?
While We're on the Topic of the Bill of Rights...
Free Speech?
Keyesian Voting
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