Defending People

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Fired Judge Suddenly Realizes …

| November 27, 2012

For­mer Judge Mark David­son, who often ranked at or near the top in local judi­cial polls, lost his bench in the Barack Obama tidal wave of 2008. He does not like what he sees now, with a polar­ized elec­torate vot­ing along party lines, and he has no inten­tion of run­ning again soon. “To run and know […]

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Today’s Houston Criminal Law News

| March 11, 2009

This, an appeal aris­ing out of a Hous­ton case is, as far as I can tell, the first time ever that Judge Sharon Keller has reversed a case to a defendant’s ben­e­fit. Bailiff uses taser on man accused of pho­tograph­ing wit­ness. John­son was watch­ing a trial in state Dis­trict Judge Ruben Guerrero’s court, offi­cials said, […]

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