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From the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association: The Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and Fort Bend County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association announce that they are beginning an immediate investigation into whether members of the Harris County District Attorneys Office committed constitutional violations of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, committed the crime [...]
Mark Bennett | April 28, 2009
Soon to be ex-prosecutor George Weissfisch’s second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth ideas for improvement of the Harris County DA’s Office (here’s the first in the series): #2 INTAKE There is no need to screen cases at intake by hand. Weissfisch Solution: We create a macro on the computer just like the macro for
Mark Bennett | April 20, 2009
Harris County Assistant District Attorney George Weissfisch, hours after giving notice, sent the following email to Pat Lykos, CCing all employees: This is part one of a six email series of my suggestions to improve the office. THE OVERWORKED #3s PROBLEMWe have never been able to fill the felony courts with #4s. Weissfisch solution: We [...]
Mark Bennett | April 12, 2009
Motive remains a mystery in gay Katy teen’s death: After giving conflicting stories, Banks confessed Monday that he shot Vogt to steal his car, said Harris County prosecutor Connie Spence. Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 3.07: (a) In the course of representing a client, a lawyer shall not make an extrajudicial statement that a [...]
Mark Bennett | April 1, 2009
From Brian Rogers’s and James Pinkerton’s article in tomorrow’s Chronicle about the DA’s new immigration plea policy: “We think the impact would be minimal, and we should be able to handle that difference,” said Kenneth Landgrebe, who heads ICE detention and removal operations. If the impact (!) on ICE detention and removal operations would be [...]
Mark Bennett | March 30, 2009
I was relaxing on the front porch of Bennett Manor with a glass of good single-malt when the telephone rang. It was my private line — the number I don’t give out to anybody. Caller ID showed an unfamiliar overseas area code. I answered it. -Hello? Pssst. Mark. -Mr. X? Where are you calling from?I’m [...]
Mark Bennett | March 27, 2009
From Houston’s Fox 26 News: Pat Lykos regrets using the word “incompetent.”
Mark Bennett | March 27, 2009
It’s an encouraging sign that, when two prosecutors this week used seven of their peremptory challenges to strike black potential jurors, resulting in a sustained Batson challenge and the dismissal of the jury, Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos disciplined them. Forcing a prosecutor who uses peremptory challenges on the basis of race to start [...]
Mark Bennett | February 19, 2009
Murray Newman posts about Pat Lykos’s terrific success utter and complete failure in making the Harris County District Attorney’s Office more diverse. Not only are there not more non-white lawyers there than there were before Lykos came along, but there will also be fewer non-white lawyers in the Office a week from Friday. My only [...]
Mark Bennett | February 11, 2009
In WWDYT: The ethics of the post-trial jury reveal — Public Defender Stuff ambimb asks: Is it ethical for a prosecutor to reveal to a jury after that the person they just convicted or acquitted had prior criminal convictions that were excluded from evidence? Okay, listen up, Harris County prosecutors, because one of you is [...]
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