All posts tagged "texas legal ethics"
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3.6K1Federal LawJudge Daryl Peters of Bell County, Texas Demanded an Attorney Attend Court Over Debt Collection Case While His Wife was in Hospital with a Terminal Illness
It almost brought tears to my eyes that anybody, any elected official, much less a judicial officer, would behave in such a...
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3.6KFederal LawAt Least Attorney-at-Law Ty Clevenger “Woke” The Office of the Attorney General in Texas. The OAG “Pleads the Fifth” with Citizens
“The more this drags out, the more this looks like political retaliation because of my role in getting Ken Paxton indicted,” Ty...
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4.0K1Laws In TexasTexas Lawyer Allan Manka Accepts Plea Deal in #MeToo Criminal Charge and Complainant GC Michelle Acosta De Moore is Not Impressed
Acosta writes on Facebook: Serial Predator and Texas Family Law Attorney, Allan Manka, was given plea deal by Wilson County Attorney’s Office....
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3.1KFederal LawA Pot of Mistakes by the Texas County Judge Earns Attorney Victory On Appeal
Former Maverick County Attorney Jaime Iracheta lost his job six weeks after filing an appeal that claimed the area’s county judge erroneously...
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6.0K2Laws In TexasIt’s Becoming Clearly Obvious Wood County Branch of Texas is a Den of Iniquity, Judicial Cover Ups and Is Only Usurped by the Current Epstein Scandal
The private warning said, The judge lent the prestige of his judicial office to advance the private interests of his court administrator...
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2.2KDonald TrumpTurning Texas Courts Blue is Significantly Affecting Decisions and Opinions in the Dallas Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
The Dallas court of appeals decides thousands of cases, and it essentially has the last word on Texas law. Lawyers spend a...
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2.3KFederal Law5th Circuit Rules Texas District Attorney (DA) Can Claim Only Partial Qualified Immunity in a Split Panel Decision
Three of the Plaintiffs were not Decision-Makers or Policy-Makers and the Fifth Circuit has Allowed their Complaint to Proceed, despite the objections...
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3.7K2Federal LawAnother District Attorney (DA) in Texas; Another Shocking Story of Sex, Lies and Criminal Misconduct; But No, He’s Not Prosecuting, He is the Alleged Offender
It started in February 2018, the report said, when District Attorney Jim Wheeler made sexual advances, “saying, ‘We could have fun together...
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2.5KFederal LawReflecting on the Sebesta (DA) Case of Concealing Evidence to Obtain a False Verdict: The Practice is Still Rife in Texas Courts; from Criminal to Civil Cases.
Graves was sentenced to death in 1994 and close to execution twice. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Graves’ conviction...
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4.0K2Federal LawFifth Circuit Judge Wiener Excuses Himself for Inadvertently Failing to Disclose Assets in Prior Years Financial Disclosure Report
Fifth Circuit Judge Wiener failed to disclose all his financial interests in his Financial Disclosure Report, claims it was an inadvertent oversight...
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1.9KFederal LawThe National Government will Fare Best if the States and their Institutions are Left Free to Perform their Separate Functions in Their Separate Ways.
A proper respect for state functions, a recognition of the fact that the entire country is made up of a Union of...
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3.1KKen PaxtonEl Paso Mayor Dee Margo’s Non-Disclosure of a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Earns Him a Seat at the Ethics Commission as a Lawyer Files a Complaint
Dallas lawyer and El Paso native Stuart Blaugrund filed the complaint June 11. It details various examples of Margo speaking favorably about...
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3.1K1Federal LawUsing the Attorney Immunity and Client Privilege Doctrines, Lawyers Across Texas Hide Evidence that Would Protect Citizens from Wrongful Judgments. In this Case, the Small Matter of a Death Sentence Was at Stake
Rizzo was aware of exculpatory evidence and chose not to produce it to the defense and the court. This evidence ultimately was...
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3.8KFederal LawA Review of the High Profile Case of Waco Attorney Greg White, (former) U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. and Texas Legal Ethics Transparency Advocate and Attorney-at-Law Ty Clevenger
The council said Smith’s actions did not warrant a recommendation of impeachment. Clevenger appealed that decision to the Administrative Office of United...
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4.1K1Deed of TrustTexas Lawyer Ethics Violation by William Allen Schultz, a Denton County Prosecutor who Failed to Disclose Favorable Evidence (Rule 3.04(a))
3.04 Fairness in Adjudicatory Proceedings. Rule 3.04(a), which precedes and bolsters Rule 3.09(d), provides that a lawyer shall not unlawfully obstruct another...
