criminal defense attorney

Is The Castle Doctrine A Legal Defense In Texas?

KEYE - CBS 42  Fri, 02/03/2012 - 8:25pm

According to Texas law the Castle Doctrine designates a person’s home as a place where you are provided special protections and immunities.

KEYE TV spoke with criminal defense attorney Parker Polan to get a clear picture of how this law works.

"When is it justified for someone to use deadly force?

When someone unlawfully and forcefully enters your home and you perceive them as a threat. ...



 

Sparta Townson, CEO Of Internet Guru Girl

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Thu, 07/15/2010 - 3:01pm

 From the internet guru girl blog:

Personal note from CEO of IGG:

While there are many ways to project your business on line, you have to make sure you feel comfortable with the company or person you are intrusting[sic] your site and online marketing to.

Make sure you understand what it does, what you expect from it, and know that IGG is telling you that the web works better than any other medium but you have to allow the features you’ve chose to work together.

 



 

Good Law?

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Thu, 04/17/2008 - 10:09pm

Doug Weathers asks criminal defense lawyers, “Would you rather have Good Facts or Good Law?”:

Every time I am preparing for a trial I deal with the question of do I have good facts or good law.

Rarely do you have both because those cases are usually dismissed or never go to trial. Sometimes you have neither good facts or good law and those cases usually plead.

In most of the trial cases you will have either good facts or good law.



 

Help Me Ask Barack Obama a Question

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Wed, 02/27/2008 - 8:36pm

The Austin Obama ’08 campaign called me tonight to tell me they had moved tomorrow’s Town Hall Meeting to a bigger room in the Austin Convention Center, and, more importantly, that they had 2 tickets for me. I was on the waiting list after being turned down for tickets this afternoon. Realistically, I thought there was no chance.



 

The Right Not To Testify Against Yourself (aka the 5th Amendment...

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:56pm

…supposedly can’t be held against you, right? It wouldn’t really be a ‘right’ if jurors were allowed to hold it against you. 

Houston criminal defense lawyer Mark Bennett points out though that the instruction read to the jury in the charge in Texas is:



 

The Right Not To Testify Against Yourself (aka the 5th Amendment...

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:56pm

…supposedly can’t be held against you, right? It wouldn’t really be a ‘right’ if jurors were allowed to hold it against you. 

Houston criminal defense lawyer Mark Bennett points out though that the instruction read to the jury in the charge in Texas is:



 

The Right Not To Testify Against Yourself (aka the 5th Amendment...

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Tue, 12/11/2007 - 9:56pm

…supposedly can’t be held against you, right? It wouldn’t really be a ‘right’ if jurors were allowed to hold it against you. 

Houston criminal defense lawyer Mark Bennett points out though that the instruction read to the jury in the charge in Texas is:



 

What to Look For in Your Prosecutor

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Thu, 11/29/2007 - 7:47am

You Don’t Make Friends With Salad writes about an Oklahoma District Attorney who has sued John Grisham and a wrongfully imprisoned man for, well apparently, for writing a book that hurt his feelings. 

Grisham’s non-fiction best seller The Innocent Man chronicled the wrongful prosecution of 2 men charged and convicted of



 

One Year Anniversary (or Blawgiversary)

Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Mon, 10/01/2007 - 10:00pm

A big thanks goes out to all the guys at LexBlog: Kevin, Jesse, Stacey, Rob and all the others that helped me launch this blog, and keep it running for this first year.

Technically, I think it launched in late September 2006, but I’m going to artificially call October 1, 2007 the one year anniversary of the Austin Criminal Defense Blog.

Some milestones so far:

Over 150,000 hits – and based on the constant increase in readers each week and month, I can expect many more over the next 12 months.