The other big area for criminal defense lawyers is the avoiding the subpoena issue. How many of us gotten that call on Sunday night and the jury trial is on Monday morning and there was this panic pho...
Part of the world is going through all the music is out there about love lost, love found, love problems, love gone bad, another love song and these are two of my favorite people Kelly Willis and Bruc...
Now we are starting out with comparison of the Texas Rule and the FRE and basically what you see is that it’s roughly the same thing in term of structure. It starts out with the prohibition 1 rule, ...
Identity theft, like I said, another one handled by the state. They are going to need some help on that. All the client has to do is file an application and give them their fingerprints and so the DA ...
Then there’s, if a person is acquitted by that’s a trial court acquittal we’re talking about. So, if a person is acquitted by the court of appeals or the court of criminal appeals you do the sam...
Now, Let’s talk about kind of the difference between expunction and non-disclosure. Expunction is available when a person has been acquitted, or their case has been dismissed, or they’ve been give...
Here, I will provide just kind of a general framework for those of you who are not familiar with them. And also to just kind of give the more seasoned of this, some tips to kind of up our game on expu...
Another way that you know that Brady exists in the case, is you know when you have these little tell tales science, it’s when there’s raw and high emotion in the case. And the prosecution’s movi...
The other thing that you can look for are; comments that the prosecutor makes to jurors. And we heard earlier a speaker talk about in one of the breakout rooms prosecutors making statements that preju...
Another, kind of boring thing to do, to spot when there’s Brady evidence is I always go and get the chain of custody documents. We don’t do that because, you know goes to weight not admissibility....
The ABA came out with a policy on Brady and why should you care! You know there some large organization of four hundred thousand lawyers and they meet all over the place and they’ve come to San Anto...
When an officer takes a person into custody and the officer is aware or has reason to suspect that the arrested person may be a foreign national, the officer must inform the jail supervisor of this si...
