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Bennett & Bennett
bennettandbennett
- May 23, 2008
- 1 min
Actual Innocence in Collin County
Collin County DA John Roach has, after 18 months in which his office spent 5,000 man-hours and more than $47,000 re-investigating the...
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bennettandbennett
- May 7, 2008
- 1 min
Suffering Laryngitis
I’m helping host two communicating-with-juries workshops (with Joshua Karton) and the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association annual...
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bennettandbennett
- Apr 14, 2008
- 1 min
Welcome, Former Prosecutors, to the Real World
Two recent news items, perhaps pertinent to the question of whether prosecutors lead more sheltered existences than self-employed...
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bennettandbennett
- Apr 8, 2008
- 1 min
On Today’s Harris County Commissioners Court Agenda
From the agenda: Request for discussion and possible action for Management Services to provide a study and recommendations on the...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 28, 2008
- 1 min
Story of the Day
Via NPR, this StoryCorps story about Julio Diaz, who was getting off a subway in the Bronx when a teenage boy approached and pulled a...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 27, 2008
- 2 min
Texas Medical Marijuana Acquittal
From NewsLI.com (little known geographical fact: Texas is so big that Amarillo is actually closer to Long Island, New York than it is to...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 27, 2008
- 1 min
For Your Consideration
Robb Myers, one of the commenters on my guest blogger’s nullification post, included this little gem in his comment: “There are four...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 27, 2008
- 1 min
This F**kin F**ker’s F**ked.
As soon as I get a mention on Fark.com, my website crashes. Thanks so much, Lunarpages. I’ll be looking for a new ISP. #blogging...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 25, 2008
- 1 min
The Importance of “Make People Afraid”
I said yesterday that what’s important about the Chronicle writing that Kelly Siegler admonished other lawyers to “make people afraid” is...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 21, 2008
- 2 min
Why religion is Unavoidable
As my first post for Blog Against Theocracy 2008, I’d like to point out that there are implicit religious assumptions that underlie every...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 19, 2008
- 2 min
A Pistol is What You Use . . .
. . . to fight your way to a real gun. I got to hear a few snippets of the Heller arguments today on NPR. In the intro, the reporter...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 14, 2008
- 1 min
Anonymous Bloggers
I’m in favor of people in sensitive positions being able to blog anonymously so that they can bring us insights that we wouldn’t...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 14, 2008
- 1 min
The Mack Arnold Trust
Yesterday Mack Arnold’s daughter Angela and HCCLA President Pat McCann opened bank accounts for the “Mack Arnold Trust”. Pat writes: As...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 13, 2008
- 5 min
DA Traits: Arrogance and Viciousness or Humility and Compassion
I had an email conversation recently with a friend who’s a prosecutor. I wrote: Our next DA needs to know that he or she is not part of a...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 12, 2008
- 1 min
DA Magidson
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Magidson is reportedly Governor Perry’s choice for interim Harris County District Attorney. His appointment...
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 12, 2008
- 1 min
P.P.S.
The gladiators will return. #blogging #Uncategorized
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 12, 2008
- 1 min
P.S.
No need to update links. I managed to keep the same structure. #blogging #Uncategorized
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bennettandbennett
- Mar 12, 2008
- 1 min
New Blogging Software
I’ve moved from Blogger to WordPress. There’s still much to do to get the blog looking the way I think it should, but at least now the...
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bennettandbennett
- Feb 15, 2008
- 3 min
. . . Gone!
Chuck Rosenthal has resigned, effective 3 p.m. today. In his letter of resignation he writes: Today, I wrote Governor Perry and tendered...
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