Blog Posts in April, 2011
Posted on Apr 28, 2011 By Law Offices of Q. Tate Williams
Fox News and the UK Daily Mail report that Miami, Florida, DUI Lawyer, Mark Gold, has filed a lawsuit in Miami-Dade County over $18,930 dollars he spent in one drunken night at an area strip joint. ...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
One advantage of reading professionals' blogs, wonkish as they may be, is discovering resources one might not have otherwise stumbled upon. For example, the White Collar Crime Prof blog has ...
Continue reading "Stanford Law Review - Handling Real Evidence" »
Posted on Apr 26, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Attorneys whose clients or cases are unpopular often face criticism, disdain, and hostility from across the political spectrum. While criminal defense lawyers may encounter this more often than most, ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Unfortunately, and as many criminal defense lawyers know, our experience in Texas and, particularly Harris County, has shown that cuts to public mental health services cause increased costs in the ...
Continue reading "Simple Math: Subtract Mental Health Services, Add Prisoners" »
Posted on Apr 21, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The Houston Chronicle is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice has transferred the white collar investigation of the British Petroleum Gulf Oil Spill investigation from the Environmental to ...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
The Texas Department of State Health Services issued a press release today announcing that because the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) used its emergency authority to control synthetic marijuana, ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Many mornings in law school, the first call I received was from then Houston Councilman, Joe Roach. My roommate worked in his city hall office and Joe would call to talk business over breakfast. ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Think Progress, today, has a post including the following quote from potential 2012 presidential candidate and former Minnesota Gov., Tim Pawlenty, "If I had been president during the financial ...
Continue reading "Pawlenty Shoots From the Lip at Financial Crimes" »
Posted on Apr 18, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Texas Governor Rick Perry today called for getting tough on arson. Tougher than what? Instead of making arson penalties more severe, Texas may want to focus on making fire investigations more modern. ...
Continue reading "Arson Fumes in Texas" »
Posted on Apr 17, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
War crimes prosecutions resulting from the 1990s breakup of the former Yugoslavia are still generating news and controversy. This past week, former Croatian generals were convicted and sentenced for ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Three Massachusetts men have been charged in a 1969 murder. The particulars of that case aside, it brings to mind challenges faced by individuals charged with old crimes. Faded memories and ...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Richard Pryor famously joked about his experience as an African-American in the criminal justice system, "that's exactly what I saw - just us." This week, articles in the New York Times ...
Continue reading "Class Warfare in Criminal Justice? (Updated)" »
Posted on Apr 15, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Today the Texas Tribune published an article about a psychologist who examined fourteen individuals currently on death row who was recently disciplined by the Texas State Board of Psychologists. The ...
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Posted on Apr 14, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
A mentor of mine used to joke that he looked at the Courthouse and saw a caste system. He was referring to husband and wife lawyers, judges, and young attorneys whose parents and grandparents had ...
Continue reading "Farewell to a Friend" »
Posted on Apr 13, 2011 By Q. Tate Williams
Most attorneys who represent individuals under investigation or prosecution for criminal offenses at some point have to answer the "How will this affect me?" question. Clients want to know ...
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