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Sustained!
http://www.myobjectionis.com
A criminal Defense Lawyer and a Civil Rights Lawyer writing about significant legal cases and practices.
- Added on: Apr 15th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Eric J. Davis
- Listed in: Law & Legal Law
- Tags: legal criminal political african american civil rights criminal justice
Recent Posts
A Decision Long Overdue
Yesterday Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos announced that their office would no longer prosecute crack-pipe residue cases as felonies, but will issue a summons for a Class C drug paraphernalia case instead. The decision has prompted some cri...
Image is Everything
If any of the allegations of the women who allege that they have been having affairs with Tiger Woods are true, then Woods has done a miracle maintaining his image. For a black man to have had that many affairs with white women and to have kept it a ...
No More Rubber Stamps
Earlier this week, the Missouri Supreme Court overturned a death sentence because a defense attorney failed to question the character of a murder victim who had child pornography on his computer. In that case, the high court acknowledged in its unan...
Foreshortening An Orderly Review
“I do, however, remain firmly convinced that no State should be allowed to foreshorten this Court’s orderly review of . . . first-time habeas petition[s] by executing prisoners before that review can be completed.” Emmett v. Kelly, 552 U. S. 9...
A Political Scapegoat
For years, the Houston Police Department (HPD) and area law enforcement have been trying to solve a string of murders in the Acres Homes area here in our city. The killings have involved prostitutes in a depressed area of our city. The women all had ...
ACORN: Not Just A Bunch of Nuts
