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Well, my jury trial got continued. One of the state’s witnesses was unavailable. What is the law on continuances for criminal trials in Texas?
For the first continuance filed by the State-
It shall be sufficient, upon the first motion by the State for a continuance, if the same be
I am proud to announce the beginning of the Kaufman Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. KCDLA is open to all who practice criminal defense in Kaufman County. If you want to join, send me an email, or click below.
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I’m never surprised when MADD lies to further their agenda. However, this is a new low, even for them.
Here is the story-
Jason Squires is a DWI attorney in Arizona. Mr. Squires gets a not guilty verdict on an “extreme” DWI case. Officer Bond Gonzalez was a witness at the trial.
I’m set for a DWI jury trial in the near future. I don’t blog about pending cases and I’m not going to start now. But I would like to share some insight on Texas juries. Today, let’s discuss juror qualifications.
To be a juror in Texas you must
Be a citizen of the United States and of this State.
The Texas Rangers are off to a surprisingly decent start this season. One of the reasons was the offseason acquisition of Josh Hamilton from the Cincinnati Reds. Mr. Hamilton’s story is an amazing tale of drug addiction and redemption. Here is the short version.
Josh Hamilton gets drafted first overall in the 1999 MLB draft. Josh gets a lot of money. Josh gets hurt in the minors, becomes a drug addict. Josh is suspended from baseball but claws his way back into the league and is now performing at an all star level for the Rangers.
The triumph of Josh Hamilton over cocaine reminded me of some other former Dallas sports stars who has a fondness for snow- Roy Tarpley and Michael Irvin. Let’s do a comparison to see what we can learn.
Scott McClelland, the former White House press secretary, has written a new book about his time serving the Bush regime. As most of you know, President Bush is a former alcoholic who was rumored to have used cocaine in his earlier days. However, since Bush is well connected neither his drug use or DWI arrest were allowed to ruin his future.
Here is an an expert from an Atlanta Journal Constitution story on the book-
McClellan tracks Bush’s penchant for self-deception back to an overheard incident on the campaign trail in 1999 when the then-governor was dogged by reports of possible cocaine use in his younger days.
I’ll be at the Rusty Duncan conference in June. Mark has proposed getting the blawgers together, I concur. If you’ll be in San Antonio June 26-28 shoot me an email.
I’m also speaking at Netroots Nation in Austin July 17/18. I’m in an open records panel. NN is a “progressive” media convention. If there is any liberal in me, it’s classical liberal. Today, I’m libertarian. Should be fun to meet Vince from Capitol Annex and other proggresive bloggers.
Tubing
Yesterday I caught the last half of a death warrant hearing. This was the first case set for a death warrant in Kaufman County since the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection was not cruel or unusual punishment.
What is a death warrant? In Texas, when a defendant who has been sentenced to death has exhausted his appeals the court may set an execution date. The date is up to the judge, however,Texas law requires that no convict be executed until after 6pm.
I had some other cases set that morning. I came in about 15 minutes late to the death warrant hearing. I walked in as the judge was reciting the procedural history of the case, the dates of the trial, the sentence, etc. The judge then ordered that on September 17th the defendant be injected with various substances until he died. The judge ended with “May God be with you”.
The sad tale of the CPS polygamy raid took a fortunate turn today. The 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin ruled that CPS had no legal authority to abduct 41 children from their parents. Without legal authority this compound raid is nothing more than a massive kidnapping.
How would you expect CPS to react to the court’s ruling that they had no evidence and acted illegaly? If I wrongfully kidnapped your children I would probably apologize- from my jail cell.
Check out the bunker mentality press release from CPS.
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