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Thoughts on Rusty and Pettitte
This earlier post was one of the first to express reservations regarding Rusty Hardin's handling of Roger Clemens' defense to the allegations contained in the Mitchell Commission Report (previous posts here) and aftermath, but my reservations are nothing compared to...
The improving conversation about PED's in baseball
As noted earlier here, the Mitchell Commission Report is a sloppy hatchet job. However, the report has had the beneficial impact of prompting more reasoned voices to emerge regarding the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs in professional...
What's Rusty Hardin thinking?
As noted earlier here, I believe the Mitchell Commission Report is deeply flawed and fails to confront squarely Major League Baseball's long tradition of at least tolerating -- if not outright promoting -- the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Moreover, Roger...
Judge Kent gears up
Embattled U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent of Galveston (previous posts here) is battening down the hatches with an addition to his defense team -- prominent Houston-based criminal defense attorney Dick DeGuerin. This John Council/Brenda Sapino Jeffreys/Texas Lawyer article reports that...
More on the Kent case
Chronicle reporters Lise Olsen and Harvey Rice follow up on their previous coverage of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reprimand of U.S. District Judge Sam Kent with this Sunday Chronicle article, which includes the following tidbits: The episodes of...
That certainly answers that question
This earlier post wondered what was up with the apparently involuntary four month leave-of-absence of Galveston-based U.S. District Judge, Sam Kent. Well, now we know. The Judicial Council of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Friday...
Dissecting the expanding realm of white collar prosecutions
Over at Point of Law.com, Moin Yahya, Assistant Professor of Law Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta, is dissecting the prosecution against Conrad Black (earlier posts here) in a series of posts, the first two of which are...
One of the risks of the modern church
It's trendy these days for megachurches to provide all sorts of special services for their members. One of the most popular of such services is marriage counseling, which this NY Times article reports placed a Texas church squarely in the...
How does the Enron Task Force really feel about Arthur Andersen?
This earlier post noted the 180 that the Enron Task Force has recently taken in regard to defunct accounting firm Arthur Andersen. After demonizing the firm, gutting it with a misguided prosecution, and alleging that a number of the firm's...
Beating a dead Andersen
The Chronicle's Mary Flood, back from a well-deserved vacation, is again writing on Enron matters and, in this article, notes that the Fifth Circuit has asked the attorneys involved in the Arthur Andersen criminal case to advise the Court on...
Calvin Murphy acquitted
Calvin Murphy was acquitted of sexual assault charges late this afternoon by a Houston jury that deliberated for only about two hours. Final arguments were completed earlier today in the sexual assault criminal trial of the former Basketball Hall of...
Prosecution rests in Calvin Murphy trial
The prosecution rested on Friday in the sexual assault trial of former Houston Rocket and Basketball Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy in which five of his daughters have testified that Murphy sexually molested them years ago. Here are earlier posts...
WSJ on Mike Ramsey
This Wall Street Journal ($) article profiles Houston criminal defense attorney, Mike Ramsey, who is heading up the criminal defense team that is defending former Enron Chairman and CEO, Kenneth Lay. The article captures Mr. Ramsey's homespun wit in the...
Murphy says what?
Former Houston Rocket and NBA Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy made his initial court appearance yesterday in the child molestation criminal case that was filed against him earlier this week. Murphy's criminal case landed in the court of District Judge...
Calvin Murphy charged with sexually assaulting five daughters
In a stunning development on the local Houston scene, former Houston Rocket and Basketball Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy was charged today with sexually molesting five of his own children in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Murphy, who is...
Isn't This an Interesting Way to Become Friends?
Based on this Houston Chronicle story, a budding friendship appears to be one of the results of the recent well-publicized murder trial of Robert Durst in Galveston. Dick DeGuerin, Durst's attorney, is another of the unusual number of excellent Houston-based...
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