Defending People

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HCCLA">A Tiger for HCCLA

| February 9, 2011

Pop quiz: Sev­eral Hous­ton police offi­cers sav­agely beat a sur­ren­der­ing sus­pect. The attack is cap­tured by a pri­vate cit­i­zen on video. The Har­ris County Dis­trict Attorney’s Office seeks to keep the video from being pub­lished. The pri­vate cit­i­zen pro­vides a copy of the video to another pri­vate cit­i­zen, who releases it to the media, who […]

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Free Adam Reposa!

| October 30, 2009

The criminal-defense lawyer who served as the pre­sid­ing direc­tor of the Austin Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers Asso­ci­a­tion wrote yes­ter­day to tell me that Adam Reposa’s writ was denied and he has to start serv­ing his 90-day con­tempt sen­tence. Eigh­teen months ago I wrote, a bit crit­i­cally, of the ACDLA’s role in the Reposa Affair. In yesterday’s […]

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Last Week’s Reasonable Doubt

| April 16, 2009

Here’s the April 9, 2009 episode of the Har­ris County Crim­i­nal Lawyers Asoication’s Rea­son­able Doubt tele­vi­sion show. Hosts Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyers Todd Dupont and Neal Davis inter­view HCCLA past-president Pat McCann.

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Quanell X on Reasonable Doubt

| April 16, 2009

An oldie but a goodie, Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyers Todd Dupont and Tate Williams inter­view Quanell X on the Har­ris County Crim­i­nal Lawyers Association’s Rea­son­able Doubt tele­vi­sion show last October.

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HCCLA Reasonable Doubt August 14, 2008">HCCLA Reasonable Doubt August 14, 2008

| March 15, 2009

Har­ris County Crim­i­nal Lawyers Association’s “Rea­son­able Doubt” tele­vi­sion show, August 14, 2008 episode. Hosts Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyer Todd Dupont and Har­ris County Assis­tant Dis­trict Attor­ney Belinda Smith. Guests: attor­ney Laney Vazquez, Precinct 6 Con­sta­ble Lt. Mark Tim­mer. Sub­ject: Ani­mal cru­elty laws.

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HCCLA Reasonable Doubt August 7, 2008">HCCLA Reasonable Doubt August 7, 2008

| March 15, 2009

Har­ris County Crim­i­nal Lawyers Association’s “Rea­son­able Doubt” tele­vi­sion show. August 7, 2008 episode with Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyers Tate Williams and Sean Buckley.

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HCCLA Reasonable Doubt July 31, 2008">HCCLA Reasonable Doubt July 31, 2008

| March 15, 2009

Har­ris County Crim­i­nalLawyers Association’s “Rea­son­able Doubt” tele­vi­sion show. July 31, 2008episode, with hosts Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyers Todd Dupont and­Tate Williams, and guest Hous­ton crim­i­nal lawyer Doug Murphy.

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HCCLA Reasonable Doubt March 12, 2009">HCCLA Reasonable Doubt March 12, 2009

| March 14, 2009

The March 12, 2009 episode of the Har­ris County Crim­i­nal Lawyers Association’s Rea­son­able Doubt tele­vi­sion show. Hosts: Hous­ton crim­i­nal lawyer Todd Dupont and me; Guest: top Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyer Vivian R. King.

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HCCLA Reasonable Doubt March 5, 2009">HCCLA Reasonable Doubt March 5, 2009

| March 13, 2009

Here’s last week’s Rea­son­able Doubt, with Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyers Neal Davis, Todd Dupont, and me. It’s sure to give any true-believer pros­e­cu­tor hives.

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HCCLA Reasonable Doubt">HCCLA Reasonable Doubt

| March 12, 2009

I’ll be cohost­ing Rea­son­able Doubt tonight with Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyer T.B. “Todd” Dupont. Our guest will be top Hous­ton crim­i­nal lawyer Vivian King. We’ll be stream­ing from 8pm CDT on HMSTV.org. Tune in and call in. Next week’s guest will be Richard “Race­horse” Haynes (Thurs­day, March 19, 2009). The fol­low­ing week (March 26) First Assis­tant Dis­trict Attorney […]

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