Defending People

the tao of criminal-defense trial lawyering

Schmomises

| November 4, 2009

As I understand it, the Harris County Commissioners Court has started approving all DA Office hires by name. So if Pat Lykos wants to hire Joan Schmo to be a Misdemeanor 4, she has to get Joan’s hiring on the Commissioners Court agenda and get the court to vote on it at a monthly meeting. [...]

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Criminal Lawyers: Ex-Partisan Judges and Ex-Partisan Prosecutors

| March 8, 2009

Houston criminal lawyer Murray Newman, to his credit, comes to the defense of his friend Judge Hanger. Good for him. Somehow he finds a tenuous connection between my views on Ms. Hanger, who hasn’t (officially) been a prosecutor in years, with collegiality or the lack thereof between defense and prosecutorial bars, but he misses the [...]

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Newman in the Houston Press

| January 28, 2009

Houston Press article describing Houston criminal-defense lawyer Murray Newman’s blog as “A Digital Bathroom Wall for Pat Lykos“. As rumors spread of continued purges, of internal memos being distributed “Re: unprofessionalism of reading toxic antiregime blogs at work” and of investigations being conducted regarding improper use of county computers, Newman predicted that his former colleagues [...]

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Toxic Blog of the Day

| December 10, 2008

The fun and games at the Harris County District Attorney’s Office continues, with demotions following on the heels of firings. Quoth soon-to-be criminal-defense lawyer Murray Newman: [D.A.-elect Pat Lykos] will fire or demote anyone who dared to even look at another candidate during the D.A.’s race. She proved that over the past few days with [...]

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Nobody Beats Up My Brother But Me

| December 5, 2008

Soon-to-be Houston criminal-defense lawyer Murray Newman (formerly AHCL) has written several times on his blog, Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, about the Harris County Criminal Justice Center — not just prosecutors, but also the defense bar and the courts’ staffs — as a “family”. To a certain extent he is right — [...]

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Another Great Thing About Being a Criminal Defense Lawyer

| December 4, 2008

I am not subject to political hatchet jobs. (Watch the video. Then read Houston soon-to-be criminal-defense lawyer Murray Newman’s (F/K/A “AHCL”) posts on the firings here and here.)

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Week of Republican Hatchet Jobs Continues

| December 2, 2008

Word is that the purges have begun over at the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. Some of the lawyers fired so far are very good trial lawyers of high character. They’re the greatest loss to the State, and will, if they can be successfully reeducated, likely make excellent criminal-defense lawyers. (Welcome to HCCLA!) Eliminating political [...]

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Siegler Video is Up

| February 29, 2008

I finally got the video of Kelly Siegler and Murray Newman’s appearance on Reasonable Doubt up and running. It’s not as high-res as I would like, but it’s watchable. Now stop bugging me.

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Siegler Reasonable Doubt Video

| February 29, 2008

I keep trying to upload the video of the February 21st Reasonable Doubt with Kelly Siegler and Murray Newman to Google Videos using the Google Video Uploader. The upload seems to go smoothly (I’ve tried several times with different video formats), but the video never appears in my list of uploaded videos. I can’t figure [...]

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Reasonable Doubt Tonight

| February 21, 2008

Todd Dupont, Kelly Siegler, [edit: Harris County prosecutor Murray Newman, ] and I will be on Reasonable Doubt live tonight at 8:00 p.m. Comcast channel 17.

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