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At the Bar

By Steve Hall

Rick Casey's column in today's Houston Chronicle is, "The coddled lawyers of our fair state."Criminal defense attorneys will tell you that the most important question to ask a potential client is not whether he is innocent or guilty.It's how much money does he have.Houstonian Brisby Brown has learned that it might be useful to turn the tables.Brown sat in jail for about 18 months on drug charges as, he claims, his attorney pressured him to plead guilty while refusing to look at evidence showing his innocence. Only on the day a jury was being selected did the lawyer send an investigator to the scene of the alleged crime, he said in a complaint to the State Bar.Apparently when prosecutors got around to examining the evidence, they weren't impressed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 22, 2010 (boomark / email).