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KHOU-TV put up PDFs of some of Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal’s emails here and here. It turns out that Chuck uses (or was using) the email address “l’etat@dao.hctx.net”. How very Louis XIV.
Mark Bennett | December 28, 2007
Here’s a little treasure, HR 1955, The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, which passed the House of Representatives in October “under a suspension of the rules to cut debate short and pass the bill.” (PDF.) Others see it as sinister; I don’t . . . yet. It would merely create a [...]
Mark Bennett | December 28, 2007
The state is bad — wasteful, inefficient, and incompetent — at almost everything it tries to do. There are two exceptions that I can think of: First, making war, which is the application of violence against the citizens of another state. Second, prosecuting crimes, which is the application of violence against its own citizens. If [...]
Mark Bennett | December 28, 2007
This came out today, in response to the events I discussed here: For Immediate Release: Contact: Chuck Rosenthal Friday, December 28, 2007 713-755-5810 Statement by Chuck Rosenthal Recently some Harris County District Attorney inner office emails have been released in the media. I understand that I have said some things that have caused pain and [...]
Mark Bennett | December 27, 2007
My friend Scott Greenfield has tagged me for the Second Annual Lawyers Appreciate Meme, which started at Life at the Bar. I appreciate the U.S. Constitution. The Founders knew — from direct experience — that government is a threat to freedom. The saw that government was necessary, though, or at least inevitable. So, rather than [...]
Mark Bennett | December 27, 2007
I am not one inclined to judge the morals of others. Who a prosecutor is lusting after (committing “adultery in his heart”, as Jimmy Carter might say) is not something I consider to be my business, or anyone else’s, except . . . Except that the prosecutor in question is the individual who orders the [...]
Mark Bennett | December 22, 2007
Don’t forget to check out the Blawg Council Wiki and add to the catalog of blawgs. Someone had the right idea with CrimLaw — he added it to the catalog page for prosecutors’ blawgs and created a page describing it (though, now that I look at it, the creation of a page describing it may [...]
Mark Bennett | December 22, 2007
Scott Greenfield is taking nominations for Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year: This will not be a Beauty Pageant for the usual suspects, the big name lawyers in the high-profile cases, but rather the unsung heroes in the trenches, doing the dirty work that flies under the radar. Please nominate a criminal-defense lawyer who has [...]
Mark Bennett | December 21, 2007
I closed yesterday’s post on justice and winning by asking, “Sometimes (rarely, but sometimes) we try cases because we have nothing to lose: the inevitable result of a trial is no worse than the result of a plea. If we have no hope of winning, why do we try those cases?” We’re not trying these [...]
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