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From a 2007 interview with improvisational comedy teacher Keith Johnstone: GM: And you won’t be nervous. KJ: No. Why should I be nervous? So I can screw up? If you can’t screw up, you have to be nervous. I can’t win them all. Usually it goes fine. But the one thing I mustn’t do is [...]
Mark Bennett | October 16, 2008
Governor Palin’s relentless promotion of the idea that literally anybody can run this country got me thinking, but it was Senator McCain’s leveling plan to rescue the economy by spending my money bailing out those who weren’t savvy enough to avoid buying houses that they couldn’t afford (in some ways these Republicans are too liberal [...]
Mark Bennett | October 16, 2008
Over at Women in Crime Ink, Katherine Scardino (one of Houston’s leading criminal-defense lawyers) writes about the reversal of Robert Fratta’s death-penalty conviction by Judge Melinda Harmon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. (Via Grits for Breakfast.) Guidry, Prystash, and Fratta were all charged with the murder of Fratta’s wife. [...]
Mark Bennett | October 16, 2008
Harris County D.A. Candidate C.O. “Brad” Bradford will be appearing on HCCLA’s Reasonable Doubt television show with Todd Dupont and Tate Williams this evening from 8 to 9 p.m. on Comcast Channel 17 in Houston. Call in with your questions for Brad.
Mark Bennett | October 15, 2008
Dallas law firm Rose • Walker is representing software company McAfee in its suit against New York (?) law firm WilmerHale for overbilling McAfee while losing the securities fraud case of its former CFO, Prabhat Goyal. WilmerHale’s team of former prosecutors billed McAfee $12 million to lose Goyal’s case in federal court in San Francisco. [...]
Mark Bennett | October 15, 2008
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Mark Bennett | October 14, 2008
The bailout, explained (Sinfest, via Mish’s Global Trend Analysis): Don’t you feel much better now?
Mark Bennett | October 14, 2008
A couple of months ago, when the Mississippi Supreme Court’s clerk refused to file a dissenting opinion in a nursing home wrongful death action, I thought, “thank you, Mississippi, for providing Texas with some solid competition in the ‘worst courts anywhere’ contest.” This week Texas is coming back strong. We have reports (WSJ Law Blog [...]
Mark Bennett | October 14, 2008
1. DUI (in Texas, called DWI) / POM (Possession of Marijuana) charge. Turned wrong way onto one-way street. NT/NA (No Test, No Accident). Field sobriety tests on video with patchy audio administered by rookie APD cop on uneven ground. The standardized field sobriety tests (FSTs or SFSTs) have three components: Walk-and-Turn, One Leg Stand, and [...]
Mark Bennett | October 14, 2008
Last week John McCain found himself telling his scared supporters that they don’t have to be afraid of President Obama. Might “make people afraid” not be such a great idea?
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