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From this morning’s Chronicle story (by Mary Flood and Brian Rogers) on the ouster of the Republican judges: Civil District Judge Sharolyn Wood, who lost the seat she’s had since 1985, lamented that voters have lost “about 250 years of judicial experience” in this sweep. She said Harris County’s judiciary has been kept stable by [...]
Mark Bennett | November 6, 2008
There’s much gnashing of teeth among the prosecutors and other right-wingers down at the courthouse this morning about the Democratic near-sweep of the nine open felony court benches. Those who have suddenly realized that partisan election of judges is not a good thing should consider . . . First, that this was not the first [...]
Mark Bennett | October 12, 2008
Thanks to a reader, I downloaded the Houston Bar Association’s 2008 Judicial Preference Poll, an incumbent lovefest. I’m guessing that among the 1300 attorneys who rated the criminal district court judges, half have never set foot in the criminal courthouse, except possibly as defendants because of a serious crack problem. How is it that more [...]
Mark Bennett | October 3, 2008
The terrain of a trial comprises the factors that the trial lawyers don’t create — for example, the spirit of the times, the state of the law, the unchangeable facts and, to a great extent, the conduct of the judge. The lawyers know what the spirit of the times, the state of the law, and [...]
Mark Bennett | September 16, 2008
Per the Chronicle’s Tropical Weather blog (a good source of information about Hurricane closings and openings, though I wish they would list ZIP codes when they publish a list of businesses that are open — since ZIP codes are generally geographically near their numerical neighbors, sorting by ZIP is a good way to provide such [...]
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