Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
The Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer blog is written entirely by Jamie Spencer, a practicing criminal defense lawyer in Austin, Texas. This blog focuses on criminal defense issues in Texas.
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Featured Articles
Deterrence, Retribution or Rehabilitation?
From the New York Times: On Monday, Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, sentenced a former senior pharmaceutical executive to write a book. Earlier this year the executive had pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the federal government...
A Good Lawyer Is A (Very Very) Busy Lawyer
Starting with a little free market theory, let’s assume that he who builds the best mousetrap will eventually dominate the mousetrap industry. (I don’t insist that this is so; just throwing it out there to start the post.) It follows therefore, that in the service industry, the better...
Sign Of The Times: iCop, iLawyer, iJudge
From a recent PC affidavit: …The tin contained four marijuana roaches and 6 small round pills with 2530 on one side and the letter v on the other. [Jamie’s client] said that the pills were Klonopin. I asked [Jamie’s client] if she had a prescription for Klonopin and she said she...
A 1:1 Ratio For Crack/Powder Cocaine?
Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration Wednesday asked Congress to end the disparity in penalties for use of crack- and powder-cocaine crimes, a stance sure to bring on contentious debate from the law-enforcement community. "The Administration believes Congress's goal should be to...
De Facto Legalization of Prostitution?
Mike, of Crime and Federalism, reads an article about sex trafficking, “San Francisco Is A Major Center For International Crime Networks That Smuggle And Enslave”, and proclaims: I'd always said, gee, of course prostitution should be legal. I'm changing my mind. San Francisco has de...
Strip Searches for Students, the Short Version
Sometimes a journalist manages to put everything you need to know about a subject in the first sentence of his report. From Adam Liptak’s article “Court Debates Strip Search of Student”: The United States Supreme Court spent an hour on Tuesday debating what middle school students...
I'll Dismiss Yours If You Dismiss Mine: Innovative Negotiating Tactics
This excerpt from the ABA Journal speaks for itself, so I’ll just file it in the “don’t try this at home” category, and move on: A lawyer says his letter threatening to reveal a prosecutor’s alleged car registration violation was intended as a joke, but Gage County...
Hot Dog Lawyers And The Courthouse Scam
Greenfield posted this morning about lawyers advertising their services on hot dog stands outside the courthouse. Reminded me of a few things that only I would consider blawgworthy, but then I make the decisions around this place, so here goes. First, we used to have a Porfirio’s Tacos truck...
Recent Articles
Sparta Townson, CEO Of Internet Guru Girl
From the internet guru girl blog: Personal note from CEO of IGG: While there are many ways to project your business on line, you have to make sure you feel comfortable with the company or person you are intrusting[sic] your site and online marketing to. Make sure you understand what it does,...
How To Write An Anders Brief
I just read Anders v California for the first time (ever, or in a long time) in preparation for writing this post. You always hear about Anders briefs, and I have some vague notion that it’s what an appellate lawyer files when they want to tell the court that there is nothing worth appealing...

