The Texas State Legislature in its 85th Session passed a law to take effect in September 2017. Any person who has been convicted of DWI (1st time) where there were no accidents or injuries will be per...
There are all kinds of amazing things you can discover from someone’s laptop and if they are thinking about suing you. A lot of stuff is super useful. As you might guess the law has kind of responde...
Quick example; Here is how the federal system started punishing for the number of images somebody has. This is representative Sensin Burner, Head of the House, Judicial Committee. He had somebody work...
The problem is most of the child pornography defendants your going to see, are a little bit tougher to work with. Now you can send them to the tanning beds so that they don’t look so quite so pasty ...
Miller v. State! There’s two ways we often lose motion to suppress when we think we got to great case, all the police went in yea without a warrant but they went in under the ‘emergency doctrineâ€...
Everything you will ever learn, everything you will ever know, everything you will ever do, that will empower you to act, that will empower others to act, will come to you in the form of a story! We a...
That the jurors be convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony — that’s a disqualification that cannot be waived by other party – that the juror is under indictment or other legal acquisition for a m...
Ok, let’s talk about sex cases. Fleming is the most intriguing case I think out there. Its pending right now in the court of criminal appeals and in Fleming, the question now is; does the Texas cons...
Leonard the next case. I forget the exact facts of Leonard but Leonard was on probation for sex offense and he was required to take polygraphs and he objected to that and he failed the polygraph obvio...
Let’s talk about experts for minute. The Blasdell cases, extremely important case on page 30 of the paper, decided by the court of criminal appeals. In that case, the defense wanted to put on a phys...
We going to talk about the very best cases from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals from the last term and a few of the worst and a few more to watch out for that are now pending on PDR and so we’re...
Judges increasingly, judges like Judge Weinstein in New York. Judges are writing opinions that are getting all around on the internet explaining why these guidelines simply are not the right way to tr...
