The U.S. Supreme Court in June 1992 established the “Daubert Rule” in its landmark decision Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. The Rule created the evidentiary premise that scientific testimony, including the testimony of “medical experts,” is admissible so long as…
Category: Homicide/Murder
2021
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Defense of Property | Homicide/Murder | Self-Defense
The nation is watching two trials involving four defendants who killed three innocent people who posed no threat to them: the Kyle Rittenhouse trial underway in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the Ahmaud Arbery trial underway in Brunswick, Georgia. Each defendant is…
2021
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Homicide/Murder
In the late afternoon hours of August 1, 2015, Christopher Rion was driving his Dodge Challenger in Dallas, Texas, when he collided with a Toyota Highlander. The collision left the Highlander driver, Claudia Loehr, and a passenger, Claudena Parnell, seriously…
2021
Category: Guns | Homicide/Murder
A new law will make Texas the 21st state that allows people to carry firearms without a permit. The law takes effect on September 1. There is a reasonable fear that this new law will escalate the rate of gun…
2020
In April, we posted a blog about whether President Donald Trump’s actions or inactions in handling the COVID pandemic amounts to criminal negligence in a purely legal sense. Our blog was inspired by a podcast interview earlier this year. MSNBC…
2020
Category: Homicide/Murder | Murder
Generally speaking, the average citizen is not well in the law. That’s why when it’s time to make really tough decisions about choices involving the law, a lawyer is the best way to navigate through whatever legal arises.
In…
2020
Category: Corruption | Criminal Law | Homicide/Murder
In a recent podcast interview with Mehdi Hasan, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirscher posed the interesting possibility that President Donald J. Trump could face criminal liability after leaving office. According to Kirshner, the President faces criminal exposure because of his…
2019
Category: DWI | Homicide/Murder
In December 2014, a Houston man named Andrew Lee Williams struck and killed a 49-year-old mother and grandmother with his vehicle as she jogging along a street in Angelton, Brazoria County. He was convicted of vehicular manslaughter in May 2016…
2019
Category: Appeals | DWI | Homicide/Murder
In the early morning hours on Christmas Eve, 2014, there was a horrific car accident in El Paso, Texas. According to news reports, local police believed that Joel Garcia was both intoxicated and speeding when he ran a red light…
2018
On average, 94 percent of all state felony convictions are the result of guilty pleas. Texas most assuredly falls within this range.
On January 12, 2012, Sandra Coy Briggs entered a plea of no contest to intoxication manslaughter of…