Thoughtful, Experienced Criminal Defense
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...
The CCA today handed down its opinion on a capital murder punishment retrial that Alex Calhoun and I tried 2 years ago in Waco in the Billy Wayne Coble case. After reading the opinion I must point out the success of Walter Reaves on appeal and co- counsel Alex...
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...
This week I had a close brush with the Anders standard . An Anders brief is a "no-merit" brief in which the appellate lawyer informs the court of appeals that he cannot find any meritorious issue in the case to support an appeal. My friend Jamie Spencer recently...
