Hilarious post about plea bargaining

October 24, 2010

An anonymous Travis county assistant DA has a blog called "DA Confidential" that commonly has insightful commentary from a prosecutor's perspective.  The latest posting is a hilarious video made with "Xtranormal", a tool that creates animated web videos with computer-generated voices speaking whatever script the author has created. The video explores themes seen too often [...]

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Alex Calhoun bests Dr. Coons

October 13, 2010

The CCA today handed down its opinion on a capital murder punishment retrial that Alex Calhoun and I tried 2 years ago in Waco.  Click here for link to opinion. After reading the opinion I must point out the success of Walter Reaves on appeal and co-counsel Alex Calhoun's trial court work in the case. [...]

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Gant exception is not swallowing the rule

October 9, 2010

In 2009, TCDLA published an article of mine dealing with inventory searches that I wrote after the Supreme Court's decision in Arizona v. Gant, 129 S.Ct. 1710 (2009).  In Gant, the Supreme Court said that police could no longer automatically search a vehicle whenever they had arrested an occupant of that vehicle. The theory that [...]

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