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Mark Bennett

I am a Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyer.

I grew up over­seas — in Thai­land, India, and Ger­many — where my dad worked for the U.S. Gov­ern­ment. After grad­u­at­ing from high school in New Delhi, India, I returned to dad’s home­town, Hous­ton, where I attended Rice University.

I majored in reli­gious stud­ies at Rice, and went on to Uni­ver­sity of Hous­ton Law Cen­ter, where I grad­u­ated with hon­ors. I imme­di­ately started my law prac­tice, rep­re­sent­ing peo­ple charged with seri­ous crimes in state courts across Texas and fed­eral courts nation­wide. In 1997 my wife, Jen­nifer, joined me as my law part­ner. She keeps things run­ning smoothly, and I try the cases.

After hav­ing a string of expen­sive fancy offices in down­town Hous­ton, we moved in 2004 to a Victorian-style house in The Heights, about three miles from the cour­t­house, with plenty of free park­ing for the clients, where the win­dows open when the weather is nice and the dogs can hang out in the office.

We keep our dock­ets small, and I ded­i­cate inten­sive indi­vid­ual atten­tion to each case. I like to try about six cases to juries every year, which isn’t a lot for some lawyers, but is a high pro­por­tion of our over­all caseload.

I can be reached by tele­phone at 713.224.1747 most of the time (though after­noons are bet­ter than morn­ings, since I’m in court most morn­ings) or by email at MB@IVI3.com. Please see my Texas crim­i­nal defense web­site and my fed­eral crim­i­nal defense web­site.

I don’t like brag­ging about myself — I’d rather demon­strate what I can do than tell you — but I don’t mind let­ting my clients brag about me.

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5 Responses to “Mark Bennett”

  1. sean garrigan says:
    26 January 2009 at 11:25 pm

    I am now sub­scrib­ing though feed­burner instead of email. I really enjoy your blog.

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  2. ABA’s Top Crim Blawg: Defending People — Public Defender Stuff says:
    28 January 2009 at 9:25 am

    […] The win­ner for “Crime Time” was Defend­ing Peo­ple by Hous­ton crim­i­nal defense attor­ney Mark Ben­nett, who writes of the win: “The ABA Journal’s read­ers named this the top crim­i­nal law blog […]

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  3. Additions to the Blawgroll « The Legal Satyricon says:
    18 April 2009 at 10:17 am

    […] to the Blaw­groll I really should update the roll more often. I’ve been a big fan of Mark Bennett’s Defend­ing Peo­ple and Gideon’s A Pub­lic Defender for a long time. Unfor­tu­nately, the way I […]

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  4. Richard LeRoy Floyd says:
    9 June 2009 at 7:49 am

    Mis­souri town [Howardville] the laws and statutes regard­ing home invasion/illegal entry of pri­vate dwelling/breaking and entry of pri­vate dwelling place.

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  5. What Matt Brown at Chandler Criminal Defense said | People v. State says:
    13 November 2011 at 10:20 pm

    […] world as every­body else, don’t we? … In a post so per­fect I couldn’t pos­si­bly add any­thing, Mark Ben­nett at Defend­ing Peo­ple explained why there is no dou­ble stan­dard. Lack of con­tra­dic­tion isn’t the […]

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