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I’ll be following up fellow Austin lawyer Todd Smith’s latest Blawg Review with one of my own over at my DWI blog, so please… all you criminal defense lawyers out there in the blogosphere write up a little something something about DWI and make sure to email it to me or submit it here.

Someone googled:

“Whose decision is it to put someone in jail if you fail a drug test while on probation?”

Well, if you fail a U/A while on probation, your probation officer will file a motion to revoke which causes paperwork asking that a warrant issues to be sent to the court for the judge’s signature.

On some minor violations the court will actually issue a summons instead of a warrant (at least in Austin) but most judges around here will authorize the warrant for a positive specimen.

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The Austin Business Journal is running a survey on its website that asks online readers the following question: “Assuming you're not one of the thousands moving downtown, why don't you want to make downtown your home?”

While it is not a scientific survey -- to say the least -- the current results do provide some small insights into the obstacles that developers face in luring residents downtown.

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Our Editor, Paul D’Arcy, shared his opinion that it is a difficult time to sell expensive condos with the stock market in decline, the economy struggling, mortgage rates rising, and gas prices at a record high.

…or “How To Not Get Arrested for DWI”

Background for the Post

I went to see Steanso and his band play some excellent tunes from the 80’s a few months ago and it was a great gig. Folks were talking about it all over the Travis County Courthouse for some time afterwards. Rumor is the setlist got published or at least emailed, and that there might be a second go-round. And that they might take requests in advance. I hope so.

photo / fredcamino Andrew W.K. performing at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood  Related links Andrew W.K.’s website Andrew W.K.’s MySpace Before speaking with Andrew W.K.

I knew one definitive fact about him: The guy likes to party. With such songs as “Party Hard,” “Party Til’ You Puke,” and “We Want Fun,” Andrew has established himself as a unique voice in rock ’n’ roll.

But in the past few years he’s extended what it means to be Andrew W.K by going on tours and speaking on the beauty of partying and pure love.

See:

“Ah. I see,” said the blind man.

When Scott prodded me earlier to redo the criminal defense related blog survey, he did it because he had run across Gideon’s post of recent public defender posts, recreated with all due Google Juice intended here:

Let’s say you want to print out Subsection (i) of Section 13 ‘DWI Community Supervision’ of Texas’ probation statute (Code of Criminal Procedure 42.12) that deals with when you do and don’t have to install an ignition interlock on your vehicle.

Here’s a money saving tip:

Make sure when you highlight the relevant section that you change the page range from ‘All’ to ‘Selection’ before you click ‘print’. Otherwise you may print out all of 42.12.