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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Hey, Can You Spare a Couple of Xanax Bars?
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Good post Richard. It speaks to the "two" Kerrvilles, defined by a segregated power church and a prosecutorial environment that preys on low end crimes committed by poor minorities which carry stiff prison sentences. White collar crime is rarely recognized, and almost never prosecuted. The District Attorneys understand the game and serve up plenty of red meat to a community full of fear.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I forgot to mention that the man who committed perjury in a deposition is a multi-millionaire with stroke with the Republican party.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good post, but fails to mention that in a felony case the Defendant (one way or the other) will have a lawyer. Seems that warnings to the Defendant would be the lawyers job. Problem is that the town is over run with lawyers, and that lawyers with no experience as Criminal Defense lawyers are (for the need of money) holding themselves out for court appointments. This town has professional prosecutors who pray on rookie lawyers to the destruction of the Defendants.
ReplyDeleteYou have yet again failed to print my post that "lightly" criticized the local "wanna-be" criminal defense lawyers. I guess we wouldn't want to hurt their feelings. Hell, I don't even call names?
ReplyDeleteI didn't check comments for a couple of days.
ReplyDeleteThis is off topic, but I submit it to you for you consideration:
ReplyDeleteHere is an email I received some months ago which was originated by Emil Prohl. I was very glad to see Mr. Prohl engaged in political activism, and I support his right to be an activist. My hope is that Mr. Prohl will be an inspiration to other convicted felons to speak their minds and engage in the political process. Too many convicted criminals are afraid to speak out against the same government that put them in jail and prosecuted them.
As a hard core liberal, I was disappointed to see Mr. Prhol take a position that is so damaging to so many poor and disenfranchised, while enjoying the benefits of a sweet taxpayer funded retirement program.
He got his.
The position is exacerbated by the fact that Mr. Prohl was widely known as a punitive judge while on the bench, with his harshest sentences reserved for poor and minorities. It seems like Mr. Prohl still retains the punitive mindset, while kicking back in comfortable government funded retirement.
One thing that has changed is that he will now be subjected to critical thinking and vocal opposition now that he has entered the world of political activism.
I look forward to a civil and lively debate with Mr. Prohl.
From: Emil Prohl
Date: July 11, 2012 3:14:17 PM CDT
To:
Subject: Fwd: Obamacare please read Karl
Sent from my iPad
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Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to
all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally.
**
Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an
individual's bank account and will have the authority to make
electronic fund transfers from those accounts.
**
Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized (by the
government) for all union members, union retirees and for
community organizations (such as the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now -
ACORN).
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Page 203/line 14-15: The tax imposed under this section
will not be treated as a tax. (How could anybody in their
right mind come up with that?)
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Page 241 and 253: Doctors will all be paid the same
regardless of specialty, and the government will set all
doctors' fees.
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Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care
according to the patient's age.
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Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on
hospital expansion; however, communities may petition for an
exception.
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Page 425, line 4-12: The government mandates advance-care
planning consultations. Those on Social Security will be
required to attend an "end-of-life planning" seminar every five
years. (Death counseling..)
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Page 429, line 13-25: The government will specify
which doctors can write an end-of-life order.
HAD ENOUGH???? Judge Kithil then goes on to identify:
"Finally, it is specifically stated that this bill will not apply to
members of Congress. Members of Congress are already
exempt from the Social Security system, and have a well-funded
private plan that covers their retirement needs. If they were on
our Social Security plan, I believe they would find a very quick
'fix' to make the plan financially sound for their future."
- Honorable
David Kithil of Marble Falls , Texas
All of the above should
give you the ammo you need to support your opposition to
Obamacare. Please send this information on to all of your email
contacts.
Thank you. I honestly hadn't realized that a blog is a time consuming matter. Mr. Ellison, you perform a valuable service, and you are the only one of your kind that has the stomach for it. I started practicing law at 24 in 1974. In a town of 110,000 people+ the young lawyers hung with the old lawyers and learned to practice law. We had an informal apprenticeship, and we lived and loved to fight it out in a court room. We were competitive and out to make a reputation. But for us, money was never an object - everyone was making money from the roustabouts to the Dr.'s and lawyers. We had the privilege to show-off our stuff. Now, it seems that capitulation is the rule for most of these lawyers. The system should be (is designed to be) an adversarial system. I learned, early on in my career, that in either a criminal case or a personal injury case the lawyers that were offered the best deals were the lawyers that were willing to "call the opposition's bluff". Lawyers that relished suiting-up and showing-up were the lawyers that got the respect - meaning they did the best job for their clients. I just hate seeing a 1st Offense DUI defendant (no wreck, no fight, no profanity) spend $2,000 for some lawyer who hasn't gone to trial in 20 years, wind-up with exactly the same plea as he could have gotten for himself - had he only asked.
ReplyDeleteCome on, Richard, your blog is about as boring as watching paint dry. Why have you stopped writing about the local lawyer mafia and their "associates"? Need some material? I have plenty. Also, why did you remove that blog entry about Lou Chamberlain and her ties to Scott Monroe? I have a copy if you'd like to repost. Did you "get in bed" with these hoodlums? Politics does make for strange bedfellows. Can you not keep them honest because maybe you became just like the rest of the horde?
ReplyDeleteI didn't know I deleted your comment about Monroe and Chamberlain, and I'll be glad to publish if you'll repost.
ReplyDeleteRLE