Defense in Trials–The Real Deal

After numerous request and demands the defendant’s part of a trial will be discussed.   We already did the first half of a trial a few months ago.  The exercise is not for the lawyers surfing the internet with idle time on their hands but for Joe the Plumber so he will have some idea how [...]

Eerie Tales From the Courtroom

A number of years ago my firm was contacted to represent the family of a lady who died and whose estate was being probated in Dallas.  Her brother who came to us was a high administrator for Duke University.  Her family was an old and well established one in the South.  Before her death she [...]

The Scary Arson Trial Addendum

Sometimes I think everyone of you out there went to law school we have so many of them in this country.  We have more lawyers per capita than any place else on earth.   Either we didn’t heed Shakespeare’s advice very well or we just love telling stories and like a captive audience in the courtroom.  [...]

The Right Gets It Right Despite Liberal Outcry

How many times do we have a “trial of the century”?  It seems at least once every decade some sensational trial comes along that the media immediately labels that way.  There was the Leopold and Loeb trial for murder in the twenties where they were tried for an especially gory and cruel murder.  They picked their [...]

Watch Out for the Fall

We have been taught that pride goes before a great fall.  Also that don’t leap before you look.  I would add too that being a horse’s behind can motivate an otherwise indifferent foe to extraordinary heights of fighting spirit.  Those lessons have real application to our daily lives.  There are more than mere adages they [...]

Dumb Criminals

Every now and then you will read one of those short little blurbs in the paper about something really stupid that a criminal did that lead to his arrest, like falling asleep during his burglary or getting caught in a window that was too small for him to sneak through.   Those things really do happen.   [...]