Defending People: The Art and Science of Criminal Defense Trial Lawyering

I wrote back in May about Kelly Siegler's future as a Hired-Gun Prosecutor (motto: "I get paid to make people afraid !"). ...

I wrote back in May about Kelly Siegler's future as a Hired-Gun Prosecutor (motto: "I get paid to make people afraid !"). ...

PTSD, depression afflict 300,000 Iraq, Afghan war vets: study A RAND Corporation study estimates that 300,000 vets suffer from major depres...

If you get this, you're still subscribed to my old RSS feed, and you may not have seen any new posts in the last eight days even though ...

AHCL's post on the "war on drugs" and my response started with AHCL's question on the overall message of The Wire with ...

What we've been doing since the DEA was created 35 years ago has resulted in more drugs being available at lower costs. We can all agr...

I wrote last year about the interplay of Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 1.05 and Texas Rule of Evidence 503, and their s...

Is it just me, or should a blawg contain some original content? I'd added David Finn's Dallas Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer ...

Last week's meeting was such a success (19 people attended) that we're doing it again this Wednesday at 4:30pm. If you are a defen...

A man has gotta have a code to live by. (So does a woman.) I think most lawyers don't have one. What's yours?

NPR: people get better results from more expensive pills !

Dear Jim, By now you've probably read AHCL's blatantly pandering open letter suggesting that you endorse Kelly Siegler in the race...

Young Doug Weathers (the adjective was recently vacated by order of the Nickname Marshal, Scott "Paladin" Greenfield ) is discove...

Lawprof Thaddeus Hoffmeister ( Juries ) is interested in what others think about the idea (which he thinks would be unconstitutional) of us...

Here are the Reasonable Doubt episodes featuring three of the four Republican DA candidates: Kelly Siegler Pat Lykos Jim Leitner

Listen: If you are a private lawyer, you can get more people to hire you. If you are a court-appointed lawyer, you can help your clients a...

Scott Greenfield has apparently been having a blawgospheric discussion with Doug Berman about the merits of a Kentucky bill, HB210, that, ...

Mexico is in the process of overhauling its criminal justice system (WSJ). Jury trials aren't in the works, yet, but reforms include a ...

The Juish (as Kelly Siegler might say) witness whom DA candidate Pat Lykos ordered to remove his yarmulke writes in to AHCL's blog .

AHCL keeps taking Pat Lykos to task for calling herself a "litigator" when she has, as far as anyone can tell, never actually tri...

I recently mentioned that part of being prepared for trial is having "nasty surprises for the State prepared." For each of the ca...

The other half of my appearance on the anti-drugwar radio show "Cultural Baggage" with Dean Becker, February 20th on Pacifica stat...

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...

Attention Houston-area criminal defense lawyers: Back in The Day, before blogs (when I was a much younger lawyer) six or seven of us would ...

I keep trying to upload the video of the February 21st Reasonable Doubt with Kelly Siegler and Murray Newman to Google Videos using the Goo...

The world of the New York criminal defense lawyer is very different from that of the Houston criminal defense lawyer; these differences go d...

If you find yourself downtown between 9:30 and noon on a weekday morning, drop by Judge Larry Standley's court, Harris County Criminal C...

I've written before about the annoying (and unexceptional) experience of being set for trial, coming to court prepared for trial, and th...

. . . do not wear a hoodie. Someone just walked past the front of the home office wearing a dark hoodie, and both dogs (ROUSs -- Ridgeback...

The same sorts of questions, it seems, pop up over and over again where lawyers gather to discuss the law. Questions like: "Isn't ...

Knowing that a bunch of Harris County prosecutors are reading sometimes cramps my blogging style. I've got a felony cocaine and heroin c...

Ron-in-Houston writes about "when he first realized Pat Lykos was insane": Little did I realize that I was about to descend i...

Let's say there's a race for public office that you're interested in. And the ideal candidate is running for this office. But he...

From AHCL , talking about Harris County Republican DA candidate Pat Lykos: A t a recent political event, she refused to speak until afte...

The Harris County Republican primary, with its fight among Jim Leitner, Kelly Siegler, Doug Perry, and Pat Lykos is very interesting. Conven...

In his lone post this morning, Scott Greenfield writes about a federal judge's attempt to shut down Wikileaks by "directing the We...

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

English barrister Geeklawyer apparently wrote something not-so-nice about ex-PM Tony Blair (who reportedly seeks to become president of the...

About 30 minutes of the anti-drugwar radio show "Cultural Baggage" with Dean Becker, today on Pacifica station KPFT.

A tour of my "Read First" list in Google Reader: Stephen Gustitis comments on a post by Dallas lawyer Brian Cuban responding to...

There was something for everyone last night; supporters of Kelly Siegler liked how she came out, supporters of Jim Leitner thought he clear...

When asked about the minority composition of the DA's office at last night's debate, Kelly Siegler stated that the DA's office h...

My apologies to a journalist, whose yesterday's column I shamelessly ripped off without attribution in a blog post four days ago . Whe...

We -- all of us -- are no more than one traumatic brain injury away from committing capital murder.

Chuck Rosenthal has resigned, effective 3 p.m. today. In his letter of resignation he writes: Today, I wrote Governor Perry and tendered ...