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		<title>Objection!  I want to leave the jury wondering&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day Jose Baez, the lawyer for Casey Anthony, asked a witness a question: “Were you asked to do a paternity test to determine whether Lee Anthony was Caylee’s father?” The answer to the question was, “Yes, and he wasn’t.” The jury didn’t hear that answer, though, because prosecutor Jeff Ashton objected, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penal Code 25.11 &#8220;Continuous Violence Against The Family&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sec. 25.11. CONTINUOUS VIOLENCE AGAINST THE FAMILY. (a) A person commits an offense if, during a period that is 12 months or less in duration, the person two or more times engages in conduct that constitutes an offense under Section 22.01(a)(1) against another person or persons whose relationship to or association with the defendant is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apples and Oranges &#8211; The Bar Says It&#8217;s Time To Learn About The &#8220;Billable Hour&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two models when it comes to charging and collecting legal fees. There&#8217;s a civil model, in which the lawyer sits at a desk and keeps careful notes of the time he spends on a case: the phone calls and faxes, the traveling here and there, the interrogatories and depositions, and all the mountains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baird &#8212; In The News (Again)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Statesman has a (surprisingly) fair article on Judge Charlie Baird. In Travis County, where judges release more defendants on personal recognizance, or PR, bonds than any of the five most populous counties in Texas, Baird stands apart from his peers for regularly giving the jail release to defendants charged with the most serious crimes&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupational Licenses and DPS Surcharges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grits for Breakfast has news that at least one appeals court here in Texas has shot down DPS&#8217;s argument that people whose licenses are suspended for failure to pay surcharge are ineligible for an occupational license. Their reasoning is pretty straight-forward: the statute says anyone whose license has been suspended for a reason other than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mirriam Seddiq posted the other day about bullying. She said, &#8220;I am decidedly against school turning my kids into giant weenies who won&#8217;t know how to stand up for themselves,&#8221; and &#8220;I was never bullied so I don&#8217;t know what it feels like. My parents always told me that if someone tried to do something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Homeland Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was worth watching: And this was worth reading: The Things He Carried]]></description>
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		<title>Napolitano to travelers: &#8220;Don&#8217;t fly.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That was the Homeland Security Secretary&#8217;s response to complaints about TSA&#8217;s new pat-down procedure &#8220;Resolution&#8221;, &#8220;which requires a tactile examination of passengers&#8217; genitals.&#8221; Her remarks came after John Tyner&#8217;s now-famous &#8220;Don&#8217;t touch my junk&#8221; video, in which he recorded his face-off with the TSA. If they don&#8217;t  like it, they could &#8220;travel by some other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Winfrey aka &#8220;Who Needs Evidence?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Lynn Winfrey v. The State of Texas is one of those cases where you think, &#8220;How could that happen?&#8221; Richard was convicted of a murder in 2007, and sentenced to 75 years in prison.  There was lots of evidence at the crime scene: DNA, hair, a bloody fingerprint, and a shoe print &#8211; none [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austindefender.com/richard-winfrey-aka-who-needs-evidence/</link>
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		<title>Orders of Nondisclosure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Orders of Nondisclosure are governed by Texas Government Code Section 411.081. An Order of Nondisclosure is an order from a judge, telling DPS (Texas Department of Public Safety) to seal information related to an offense.  It&#8217;s a way to clear the slate, so to speak &#8211; if you&#8217;re eligible. Are You Eligible? First off, you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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