Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
Texas criminal defense, criminal procedure, and other criminal law issues.
Author: Jamie Spencer is a solo practitioner in Austin, Texas.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Sentencing/Post Conviction • Criminal Procedure • Evidence • States • Texas • Solo / Small Firm • Private Defense
Recent Posts from Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
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Conscious Mendacity
From my recently kindled copy of Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman is interviewing Errol Morris, the documentary filmmaker, on the subject of interviewing people: What’s more interesting to you: someone who lies consciously, someone who…
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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
From the San Francisco Chronicle article “Report: Pot use, arrests rising in California”: Marijuana arrests in California are increasing faster than the nationwide rate, and African Americans are being booked for pot-related crimes much more…
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The Bad News Is... You're The One Out Of A Hundred
From an email several months back: Writing on behalf of my son. We are completely frustrated with our attorney choice. They told us 99% it would be dismissed in our first meeting. Court date arrives…
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Contempt of Bailiff
Anyone searching for a niche blog topic could do well blogging about contempt of court. Stories like these are getting more and more common (even if this one is beyond the pale): According to the…
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Everything's Bigger In Texas
Criminal lawyer Thomas Gallagher writes about a case, Minnesota v. Peck, decided by his state’s Supreme Court which overruled a trial court’s determination that including the bong water as a “mixture” used to calculate the…
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The Doctrine Of "Necessary Englishness"
I predicted some humorous tidbits would come from D.A. Confidential, and I’ll predict now that this post may be hard for DAC to top. I’m going to forgo substantive comments, merely hinting at the subject…
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Thrashing Pecans
“You don’t get a figure like mine by eating salads for lunch,” I often say, when it is either necessary or, more likely, merely personally amusing to point out that I’m no longer the fittest…
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Prosecuting Significant Marijuana Traffickers
The Department of Justice sent a memo on Monday to all its prosecutors regarding federal prosecution of marijuana cases in States that have legalized the use of medical marijuana. From the memo: One timely example…
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D.A. Confidential
A new criminal law blog in Austin has popped up recently, but unlike those I recently posted about, this one comes in the black hat variety. That’s right: it’s written by a prosecutor.It’s not the…
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Perjury For Filing A Writ Of Habeas Corpus?
Reading between the lines from this KXAN news story, “Man Faces Life In Prison for Perjury”: A Liberty Hill man faces life in prison for aggravated perjury charges after claiming he was innocent following a…