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To Kill A Mockingbird: Representing Unpopular Clients in the Modern World
As a child, I didn’t know any attorneys. Probably didn’t meet one until I did an internship at a large lawfirm during college when I was trying to figure out whether I was going to law school. My...
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‘Presumption of Innocence’ or ‘Everybody Knows They’re Guilty?’
I’m often asked to comment on legal issues by non-lawyer media members. I enjoy helping with that, though it is sometimes hard to explain legal matters without simplifying to the point of inaccuracy....
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The Amanda Knox Case: Character Assassination Versus Evidence
Today, Amanda Knox was found not guilty of murdering and sexually assaulting her roommate by an Italian appeals court. As a lawyer, I find the differences between the Italian criminal defense system...
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Want to Save Taxpayer Money? Stop Federalizing Crimes.
One way that politicians on both sides of the aisle get elected is being “tough on crime.” Nobody wants to take laws off the books that make them look soft. If there’s a high profile bad act that...
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Q&A on the Jerry Sandusky Child Sex Abuse Cases
As a former assistant district attorney and current criminal defense lawyer, my husband, Bill Stradley is known for working on difficult trial cases that other attorneys do not have experience...
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Talking to Your Kids About Jail and Avoiding Dumb Choices
Most of the people who hire our criminal defense firm have never been in trouble with the law before and see themselves as law-abiding people. Everybody wants to throw the book at criminals unless it...
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What Not To Wear: Harris County Criminal Court Edition
The husband Bill reported seeing a guy at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center wearing this t-shirt. He wasn’t sure if the guy was a defendant or visitor, but I don’t have to tell you that’s not...
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Why the New Orleans Saints Bounty Penalties are Too Harsh
I can’t say I am a fan of the NFL-enacted penalties against the New Orleans Saints for bounties and the cover-up of the bounty program. Though much has been said and written about this, nothing really...
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A Different Kind of Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog…
Greetings to readers from my old Houston Criminal Law blog location or from other parts of the web. This is the new location of my personal blog where I park non-Texans writings. I will continue and...
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Sex in the Harris County Criminal Justice Center?
The Harris County Criminal Justice Center often contains unsual sights. Brian Rogers, a Houston Chronicle courts/crime reporter, put together a tumblr of face tattoos. Often you can marvel at the...
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Texas v Rodriguez: ‘Stand Your Ground,’ CHLs, Self Defense – Facts and Law
Houston criminal lawyers Neal Davis and my husband Bill Stradley represented Raul Rodriguez, a man convicted of murdering his neighbor in a confrontation relating to loud music from a party. A jury...
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‘Online Impersonation’ is a Crime in Texas
Did you know that "Online Impersonation" is a crime in Texas? I thought I knew a lot about the web, but ran across this relating to a legal case I know about. Enacted into law in 2009, here's the...
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The Cost to Defend Gun Rights
A lot of times when people ask me about unjust legal results, they ask, “Isn’t that unconstitutional?” Or, “How can that be fair?” If the answer was just answering a law school exam, I’d write out the...
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Open Carry of Guns and Texas Law on Provocation
The word “provocative” has often been used in articles describing the tactics of Open Carry Texas. A Google search of “Open Carry + provocative” leads to about 15,000 results. For those unfamiliar with...
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Roger Goodell’s Criminal Justice Role Was Doomed to Fail
From 2006 to 2011, I wrote for a now-defunct sports blog called, FanHouse. When I first started writing about NFL for them, I didn’t mention that I was a lawyer. It didn’t seem relevant. But then I...
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What is sensible discipline for NFL player misconduct?
Understatement to say that the NFL and its teams are struggling to fashion appropriate discipline for allegations of NFL player misconduct. As I’ve written before, these problems were completely...
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