Blog Posts in 2011
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Posted on Dec 21, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The local Fox affiliate reported Monday night that Harris County is accepting bids to privatize the Harris County Jail, including one from the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Problems with ...
Continue reading "Prison Profiteers Coming to Town? (Updated)" »
Posted on Dec 14, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Today, the Houston Chronicle, citing TXDoT, reported that in 2010 there were 3,409 cell phone related accidents with 46 fatalities. The article was about the unlikelihood of Texas following the ...
Continue reading "Texas Likely to Ignore NTSB on Cell Phones" »
Posted on Dec 8, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
A jury of twelve people, who had no reasonable doubt about LaDondrell Montgomery's guilt, got it wrong. He was in jail when the robbery they convicted him of last month occurred. There is no doubt ...
Continue reading "Oops!...We Did it Again" »
Posted on Dec 6, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
I recently told a jury in opening statements that they, "would see a video-recorded walk-through of the home the day after the fire, showing nothing packed, a cell phone still on a bedside table ...
Continue reading "Video Evidence - Don't Ask, Don't Tell" »
Posted on Dec 5, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
It's often said that a DWI arrest can happen to anyone, and does. This past weekend both the current head of the Federal Aviation Adminstration (FAA), Randy Babitt, and 2010 Miss USA, Rima Fakih, ...
Continue reading "Beauty Queen Blows, Texans Probably Shouldn't" »
Posted on Dec 2, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The extent to which this blog will comment on the race for Harris County District Attorney (as if anyone cares what I think) is to make the following observations about matters that will affect ...
Continue reading "Gov. Perry Will Decide Republican DA Primary, Not Cops" »
Posted on Dec 1, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
News reports indicate that Dennis Earley and Paulette Parsons, an Alabama couple, are being held in the Liberty County Jail after allegedly leading police on a high speed chase in a stolen car that ...
Continue reading "Two for the Road" »
Posted on Nov 30, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
It seems I'll never get away from the "Candy Man." Dean Corll, the so-called "Candy Man," was a serial killer Northwest Houston parents used for years as a cautionary tale to ...
Continue reading "Candy Man Cases Still Being Unwrapped" »
Posted on Nov 22, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
A Fort Bend County man accused of a nearly decade old murder was granted reasonable bail because he was not indicted within ninety days of his arrest. The trial court judge followed Texas law when ...
Continue reading "Reasonable Bail Is a Right, Not a Mistake (Updated)" »
Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Large amounts of drugs detected by drug-sniffing dogs are frequently the subject of news reports like this one from today's Houston Chronicle. The police apparently failed to inform to the ...
Continue reading "Fruit of the Poisonous Traffic Stop" »
Posted on Nov 15, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The Harris County District Attorneys Office's DIVERT Program, a pre-trial intervention style program for qualifying DWI Defendants, has been praised by a variety of parties, including the ...
Continue reading "DIVERT Program Found Unconstitutional (Updated)" »
Posted on Nov 11, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
There are libraries of books about the Great War, about the generation it killed and the generation that survived, perhaps neither understanding what it was about and the latter knowing only for ...
Continue reading "Remembering Armistice Day" »
Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The controversey surrounding the Houston Police Department's BAT Vans and alleged DA's office cover-up is but one reminder that area prosecutors regularly have to contend with news of police ...
Continue reading "Bad Cops Make Good Jurors" »
Posted on Nov 2, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
A California man accused in Federal Court of hacking into the online accounts of numerous celebrities entered a plea of not-guilty today. His bond was set at $110,000. According to an article in the ...
Continue reading "Feds Target Johansson Hacker, Still Ignore Wall Street" »
Posted on Nov 1, 2011 By Law Offices of Q. Tate Williams
Playwright George Bernard Shaw supposedly quipped, "Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language." A recent article on mandatory sentencing in England and Wales from ...
Continue reading "Separated by More than a Common Language" »
Posted on Oct 26, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The Houston Chronicle reports that a grand jury empaneled by the 185th District Court has requested the appointment of a special prosecutor and an extension of its term. Speculation by the paper and ...
Continue reading "Much Ado About Nothing? (Updated)" »
Posted on Oct 26, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Revelations about the cause of the death of singer Amy Winehouse may help put Texas DWI laws into context. According to a CNN.com article today, her blood alcohol-level was 421 ml per 100 ml of blood ...
Continue reading "Winehouse Pathology Illuminates DWI Laws" »
Posted on Oct 1, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
As noted in an earlier post, the Wall Street Journal has lately taken up the crusade against overcriminalization in a series that began with the July 23 article, "As Criminal Laws Proliferate, ...
Continue reading "WSJ Looks Out for Its Own" »
Posted on Sep 22, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
On Wednesday, the State of Georgia executed Troy Davis for his part in the death of an off-duty police officer. MSNBC had hours of coverage across various shows. The Vatican weighed in. The foreign ...
Continue reading "A Tale of Two Executions" »
Posted on Sep 20, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Ordinary drivers involved in collisions or who commit traffic violations at night on busy streets are often investigated by HPD for driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence. HPD ...
Continue reading "Houston Police Driving the News" »
Posted on Sep 19, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Local news reports indicate that an area massage therapist, Ken Scripa, has been charged with sexual assault. Mr. Scripa is presumed innocent and in a position other massage therapists have found ...
Continue reading "Massaging the Facts" »
Posted on Sep 18, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Any lawyer who has practiced crimnal law in Harris County for more than a few years of the past fifty has handled a case or ten that started on Telephone Road ( Prostitution, DWI, Assault, etc.). ...
Continue reading "Three Takes on Telephone Road" »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Teenagers making questionable decisions, particularly where sex is concerned, isn't news. However, the age of cell phones being used to capture and share images of teens in compromising positions ...
Continue reading "New Sexting Law Tickets Teens" »
Posted on Sep 7, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
On September 1, 2011, several new DWI related laws went into effect. The one likely to affect the most drivers is H.B. 1199 which, in part, amended Texas Penal Code Section 49.04 to elevate a first ...
Continue reading "DWI Stakes Just Got Higher" »
Posted on Aug 31, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
On June 22nd of this year, the New York Times published an op-ed by T. Coates, The Haunting of Rick Perry, which began with the assertion that, "[s]hould Gov. Rick Perry of Texas enter the 2012 ...
Continue reading "Will Willingham Case Burn Perry?" »
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