Defending People

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Introduction to Intake

| April 17, 2008

AHCL, who knows an awful lot about the DA’s office for some­one who’s not an ADA, has a post today about how the Har­ris County DA’s intake sys­tem works (a lot cleaner than the exhaust sys­tem). Drop by, and please thank AHCL for sheed­ing some light on the work­ings of the office that have been […]

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Mean, True, or Both?

| March 22, 2008

Anony­mous blog­ger AHCL writes a cri­tique of my mood: He’s darker. More angry. More morose. .… Where he starts get­ting mean is in the com­ments. he argues that Kelly Siegler “bought” Steven Hotze’s sup­port. he states he thinks its “fair” for Kelly to pay for Chuck’s sins (obvi­ously not think­ing that “mere pres­ence” applies when […]

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Lykos Busted

| March 16, 2008

Over at Life at the Har­ris County Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Cen­ter, my evil twin has caught DA can­di­date (and for­mer judge) Patri­cia Lykos in a lie. Not just a lie, but a whop­per — Lykos pub­licly claimed (in the KHOU Debate) not to have sought the cam­paign sup­port of police orga­ni­za­tions, less than six weeks after […]

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Anonymous Bloggers

| March 14, 2008

I’m in favor of peo­ple in sen­si­tive posi­tions being able to blog anony­mously so that they can bring us insights that we wouldn’t oth­er­wise [edit: receive]. But — and maybe this is just me — I think if you’re going to blog anony­mously you should treat peo­ple with at least as much respect as you […]

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