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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Best Law Blog Name I've Seen In Awhile
Bicker, Back & Forth, P.S. I’ve got to come up with a good name for this blog. Any suggestions?
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Rick Perry's Definition of "More Harm Than Good"
The Governor’s reason for vetoing the expunction bill: House Bill No. 3481 would authorize the expunction of criminal records, including law enforcement case files, 180 days after an arrest if no formal misdemeanor or felony…
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Signs of the Times
No texting in court. Reminds me of back when I started practicing(1997), cell phones were just becoming common in every day life. More and more lawyers were changing out their pagers for cell phones. In…
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"I Could Be Doing Real Police Work"
Quoting a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Nicholas Kristof sees the light in the cleverly and accurately titled “Drugs Won the War”: He said he gradually became disillusioned with the drug war, beginning in 1967…
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Deterrence, Retribution or Rehabilitation?
From the New York Times: On Monday, Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, sentenced a former senior pharmaceutical executive to write a book. Earlier this year…
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De Facto Legalization of Prostitution?
Mike, of Crime and Federalism, reads an article about sex trafficking, “San Francisco Is A Major Center For International Crime Networks That Smuggle And Enslave”, and proclaims: I'd always said, gee, of course prostitution should…
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A Citizen of the World
From Newt Gingrich’s speech last night at some important fancy-shmancy Republican Party fundraiser: Let me be clear about this: I am not a citizen of the world… I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense…
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The Smell of Books
I’ve read 5 books so far on my new toy, and expect to write a review of the Kindle soon. Assuming I ever get around to posting it, one of my few complaints, and an…
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May 35th, 1989
I’m no First Amendment scholar, but I’ll lay donuts to dollars that versus freedom of speech and freedom of religion, “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a…
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Bing-O
Any other referrer watchers out there getting flooded with searches from Bing? It could be that the new Microsoft search engine (some say the name BING is an acronym for But It’s Not Google) is simply getting…