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“Comedy has to be based on the truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue on the end.” – Sid Caesar. 

At 2:18 in silly video number 2, the pretrial hearing, comes one of the exchanges that actually made me lol:

Officer: His hands were shaking. Based on my experience and training he was sweating profusely.

Loads of extranormal prosecution and defense lawyer comic videos going viral. The generic Why You Shouldn’t Go To Law School was followed by D.A.

Overheard a bench conference about a motion to revoke a felony probation while standing in line waiting to talk to the judge this week.

Putting the pieces together, the story went something like this:

From PoliceOne.com, comes Pat McCarthy’s article “Turning Testimony from Stressful to Successful”.

Before we get to the parts that a skeptical defense lawyer might highlight on his blog, let me give some kudos to the subtitle:

The baseline for all good witnesses is to just tell the truth — the benchmark for cops on the stand is that we're just doing our jobs

Paintings and sketchings from a Travis County prosecutor whose blog says she wants to work as a courtroom artist when she retires.  Primarily not courthouse related stuff, but there's plenty of that in there too.

I predicted some humorous tidbits would come from D.A.

Confidential, and I’ll predict now that this post may be hard for DAC to top.

I’m going to forgo substantive comments, merely hinting at the subject matter, hopefully forcing you to click through and actually read the original.

A new criminal law blog in Austin has popped up recently, but unlike those I recently posted about, this one comes in the black hat variety.

That’s right: it’s written by a prosecutor.

Overwhelming immutable facts that tend to show the defendant is indeed guilty of the crime charged can lead to some pretty creative excuses.

For example, defendant gives consent to search on tape and a baggie of cocaine is found in his right front pocket.

From a real, live answer recently filed in a real, live case pending in a Texas state court (court, parties, and counsel redacted):

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Defendants assert a general denial under Rule 92 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure to the Plaintiff's Original Petition.

I see that my buddy and noted Texas defense lawyer Mark Bennett is speaking at Center for American and International Law CLE called “The Mind and Criminal Defense”. It’s a one day course on Capital Mitigation and it sure looks interesting, but unfortunately it conflicts with my schedule.