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Texas Court Holds Harassment Statute Unconstitutional
This week the Fort Worth Court of Appeals decided Ex parte Barton, No. 02-17-00188-CR, holding unconstitutional section 42.07(a)(7) of the Texas Penal Code. This is an issue that I have pending in...
View ArticleThe Kim Ogg Credibility Shitshow
I was a fan of Kim Ogg’s candidacy for the Harris County DA. It was time to break the Republican party’s chokehold on that office, and Ogg was a good person to do it. Unfortunately, the promise was...
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You’re Using Microsoft Word Wrong
My friends, you have some habits in using Microsoft Word that are making your life more difficult. More importantly, they are making it difficult for me to collaborate with you, and are therefore...
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Texas National Send a Butt Pic to the Governor Day.
SECTION 1. Chapter 21, Penal Code, is amended by adding Section 21.19 to read as follows: Sec. 21.19. UNLAWFUL ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT VISUAL MATERIAL. (a) In this section,...
View ArticleRevenge Porn Questions and Answers
Dear Mr. Bennett, I’m writing to follow up on a voice mail I left late yesterday. I’m a writer with the ABA Journal, the American Bar Association’s member magazine, and I’m writing an article on First...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Gets Revenge Porn Wrong
In an opinion rife with logical and legal error, the Illinois Supreme Court has upheld that state’s revenge-porn statute in the face of First Amendment challenges. The opinion is here: 123910 What’s...
View ArticleRevenge Porn: Peanut Gallery Weighs In
Some dolt1 in Illinois thinks my handling of the “speech of purely private concern” argument here is too “dismissive”: You're right that the Supreme Court has not applied its lesser-protected speech...
View ArticlePSA: Ten-Year Sex-Offender Registration Offenses in Texas
I think I have discovered a bug in how DPS administers the sex-offender registry in dealing with people who have ten-year sex-offender registration offenses and prison sentences. If you went to prison...
View ArticleThe Trump Impeachment in Voir Dire
Interesting voir dire question on Twitter, from a Gideon’s Promise (it’s a terrific program; if you have some charity dollars to direct, please consider sending them yeaward) alumna: Just want your...
View ArticleMoving On
After almost 16 years of intermittent blogging, I’m moving along to a different platform, which I think will better suit both my talents and the times. Please visit...
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