Dennis Elias’s Latest Tweet :. Injustice News Twitter Feed :.Mark Bennett | July 16, 2009
Houston DWI attorney Paul Kennedy reports: A citizen confronted with a first-time DWI will be offered pretrial diversion (if eligible) or 30 days in the county jail. The other option is to ask the judge for probation without a recommendation from the prosecutor.. . . .Said an unnamed source, “the plan is to force people [...]
Mark Bennett | July 15, 2009
Anita Mugeni Anita Mugeni, one of the few criminal-defense lawyers in Rwanda (a place that makes Williamson County look almost civilized). Recently, Anita defended a woman appealing a conviction sentencing her to death. Despite the seriousness of the charges, the court had not appointed a lawyer and the woman did not know she had a [...]
Mark Bennett | July 15, 2009
Check these out, and tell me what you think: Gamso – For the DefenseOhio Criminal Defense Lawyer Jeff Gamso. What About Paris?Dan Hull’s What About {Clients / Paris} Crime & FederalismMike Cernovich: “So long as everyone agrees to believe the lie, then the lie will remain the truth.” Cognitive DailyA new cognitive psychology article every [...]
Mark Bennett | July 14, 2009
Dan Hull is right. Effective immediately, absent compelling reasons, this blog will join Dan’s blog, What About {Clients / Paris}, in not publishing any comments of anonymous commenters. All comments must be accompanied by commenters’ names (first and last) and real and verifiable email addresses. I’ve fumed about anonymous commenters for years (I’ve been blogging [...]
Mark Bennett | July 13, 2009
Cynthia Henley explains Why the Defense Does not Share Info with the State. Ken Lammers (CrimLaw) encounters a unique punishment strategy form a defense lawyer in At Least Buy Me Dinner First. Rick Horowitz (Probable Cause) explains why, if you’re in a car that was stopped on the road, You Just Got Pwned! Brian Tannebaum [...]
Mark Bennett | July 10, 2009
Today’s asshats of the day are Adam Winter and Thomas A. DiCicco, Jr. of “Web Guardian” (I don’t know if it’s this WebGuardian, but it’s probably just a boiler room in Boca Raton). The first time Adam called he gave his full name (“Adam Winter”, possibly a pseudonym; if I were working in a sleazy [...]
Mark Bennett | July 8, 2009
HCCLA ex-president Robb Fickman joins The Houston Justice League: I know this is hard to believe…so hear me out… He was driving back from Lake Charles (he wasn’t gambling…he was…um…sight seeing at some of the industrial plants, and relaxing on the lovely beach fronts on the soothing lake), and when he neared the Highlands exit, [...]
Mark Bennett | July 7, 2009
Lawyers: There are some who will tell you, “the disciplinary rules say X, so ethically you have no choice.” That our lawyerly duties trump all others is a fiction thoughtlessly accepted by most lawyers and eagerly accepted by others who want to avoid the consequences of their actions. They are mistaken for three reasons. First, [...]
Mark Bennett | July 4, 2009
Text added by Congress is indicated by strikethrough; text removed by Congress is italicized. Information is from Thomas Jefferson’s Autobiography. A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have [...]
Mark Bennett | July 3, 2009
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the [...]
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