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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 [...]
Mark Bennett | April 2, 2008
I’m glad the Harris County DA’s race is almost over. Partisan politics and offices in the criminal justice really shouldn’t mix. In this election, both sides have tried to deceive the public. Over at the Elect Kelly Siegler Kelly Blog you can read about Pat Lykos’s deceptions; here’s one from Siegler’s campaign. Kelly Siegler’s campaign [...]
Mark Bennett | March 19, 2008
Kelly Siegler is behind 4-1 in the informal poll I’ve conducted down at the courthouse this week of people whose continued employment doesn’t depend on Kelly Siegler’s election. • A former Harris County prosecutor (now a prosecutor elsewhere) who served in Judge Lykos’s court would vote for Pat Lykos over Kelly Siegler, whom he describes [...]
Mark Bennett | 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 [...]
Mark Bennett | March 13, 2008
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Magidson is reportedly Governor Perry’s choice for interim Harris County District Attorney. His appointment is supposedly contingent on his getting the U.S. Department of Justice’s approval to run the Harris County DA’s Office for 9 months and then return to his job at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, but this sort of [...]
Mark Bennett | March 23, 2007
In a sentencing hearing the other day (I was observing a colleague’s injury to a child case), I heard a prosecutor argue something that made me do a double take: “This man used his position of power to hurt other people.” Isn’t that a pretty fair description of what prosecutors do when they put people [...]
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