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01/13/2025

Actual video of me during cross examination

11/18/2023

https://abc13.com/ronald-lewis-arrested-harris-county-jail-deaths-smuggling-drug-laced-papers/14080299/

Harris County has recorded 17 inmate deaths so far in 2023 as of November. Now, a suspected drug smuggler has been arrested after being accused of sending laced papers to the jail.

09/20/2023

Black drivers more likely to be pulled over by HPD for non-moving violations, report shows
https://abc13.com/are-black-drivers-more-likely-to-be-pulled-over-what-data-shows/13802240/
via ABC13 App

The president of the Houston Police Officers' Union said race has no bearing on traffic stops despite a new report revealing data that suggests otherwise.

11/01/2022

Police tracking cell phones of people with warrants.
https://truthout.org/articles/documents-houston-police-use-stingray-surveillance-technology-to-sweep-up-cellphone-data/?amp

10/28/2022

Can the State of Texas move forward with prosecution in a domestic violence case if the complainant does not come to court? In some cases, yes. Many times, there are statements made at the scene to officers or 911. Whether those statements can be admitted to the jury without the complainant there, is controlled by the specific facts of each case. Statements made previously and then latter offered in court are hearsay, unless there is a hearsay exception. Even if there is a hearsay exception, these statements could still be inadmissible because a defendant in a criminal trial has the constitutional right to confront and cross examine accusers.

I. Whether the hearsay statements made by the complainant are admissible under the exited utterance exception.
II. Whether admitting the statements made by the complainant are violative of the Confrontation Clause of the Texas and United States Constitutions.
III. Harm analysis and State’s burden of proof.

https://www.walkerlawhouston.com/resources/blog/statements-made-at-the-scene-of-a-domestic-violence-case/

01/30/2020

https://theappeal.org/harris-county-texas-race-jury/ #.XjMWGbxmwMA.facebook

A Texas judge approved a Batson motion, then overruled it. But a transcript shows that a Black man was struck unfairly, the attorney said.

12/08/2019

Interesting!

After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case.

08/02/2019

We reached out to prosecutors for all 254 Texas counties to ask whether they will still prosecute ma*****na cases.

08/01/2019

What what?!

An interoffice memo obtained by The Texas Tribune instructs DPS officers to cite and release suspects in misdemeanor ma*****na cases.

07/03/2019

WOW!!!

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Tuesday that her office will no longer accept criminal charges for misdemeanor amounts of ma*****na in light of a new state law that legalized h**p and inadvertently complicated evidence testing in cannabis cases. During Texas Legislature's 2019 sess...