And the defense attorneys were right: He was released on parole six days later. Still a genius move that caught the D.A. completely off guard . (Here's a very deep dive on the case from Slate.)
- Regarding Cowboys' kicker Brandon Aubrey who is sitting on a jury in criminal trial in Tarrant County, one faithful reader pointed out that one of the defense lawyers, Robert Keating, graduated from Decatur High School in 1988.
- Side note: In looking at other parts of the Tarrant County "trial board", I saw three not guilty verdicts this week. One of them in a murder case.
- If I ever get convicted of anything, I hope Netflix does a documentary so I can ultimately be set free.
- The Wall Street Journal has a revelation which should come as no surprise at all.
- The amount of money that DPS troopers have been paid as overtime as part of this is insane.
- Israel continues its random bombings.
- Our Wise County Judge, J.D. Clark, has released a new single today. (Spotify link.)
- Trump rallies:
- Last night. It's such a strange strategy to bad mouth America.
- Just incredible. (From the Turning Point rally two days ago.)
- Kamala Harris rallies: Beyonce today. Springsteen last night.
- Rupert Murdoch's paper endorses Trump today. No surprise.
- The "very private" Dak Prescott continues to beat me down. He has a photographer at his engagement proposal, splashes it on Instagram last week, and now gives interviews about it. All while earning $60 million a year as a season collapses around him.
- If you are a high school football fan, you won't believe the ending of an overtime game last night at The Star. Video.
- Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 5 years and 112 days.
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One of my flashback posts from on old Bridgeport Index from 1974. Here's the verdict after an actual trial in federal court.
- The Cowboys' kicker is sitting as an actual juror in a felony case in Tarrant County. Don't worry, juries don't work on Sundays.
- Here is the actual case he's on:
- For Texas to not be a battleground state, I think these appearances are odd.
- Trump is mad at John Kelly for warning the country what a threat Trump is to democracy. Kelly is a former four-star general in the marines and was handpicked by Trump to be his chief of staff.
- AG Ken Paxton has become bloodthirsty as he enters the fray regarding the execution of Robert Roberson.
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- Trump spoke at Turning Point last night. Tucker Carlson did this introduction. Video. This is just weird.:
- One of my favorite features of the New York Times is their every-month-or-so article outlining a person or couple shopping for a new home, letting you see their three options, and then voting on what they chose or should have chosen. Here's the latest. (Gift link.)
- The Business Second™. Two things were going to happen this week for troubled Boeing: Quarterly results were going to be announced and workers were to vote on ending their strike. We got the results yesterday:
- Random tweet from the former head of the Dallas DA's Appellate Section who went into private practice for a bit.
- Messenger - Above the Fold
An attack on the Canadian capitol was the big news. A video captured the police response with tons of gunfire heard down a hallway.
- Wise County early voting: 3,559 voted on day one, and 3,526 voted yesterday. That brings the total to 7,085. Four years ago the numbers were 2,263 and 2,409 for a total of 4,672. So for every 2 people that voted last time, we've got 3 this year. (My Bridgeport math education is paying off for me, big time.)
- Get out your jackets.
- New this morning. Everything is fine. It's just buddies Putin and Kim Jong Un teaming up against Ukraine.
- Trump:
- Trump's former Chief of Staff comes out to do three recorded interviews with the New York Times to warn us about Trump. Gift link. Add him to the list of former Trump confidants, including his own former VP and AG, who are sounding the alarm.
- The Atlantic had quite the article yesterday. And they didn't even put the "bury a . . . Mexican" comment in the headline.
- Tarrant County MAGA dysfunctional government on display yesterday:
- One guy out of White Settlement, who seems to be very capable of pushing a wrong button, claimed that he voted for Trump but the machine switched it to Kamala Harris. He checked his paper ballot that was printed, saw the error, and the ballot was torn up and he voted again.
- Then ultra-MAGA Tarrant Republican Chairman Bob French went into "They are trying to steal the election!" mode and lied about it having happened to multiple voters. (Get ready, you are about to hear this lie a lot -- especially nationwide.)
- That prompted a retort from just plain MAGA Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare to slap everyone down by saying this is just one report out of 100,000 where someone has "claimed his vote was altered" (emphasis added.)
- Incredible pictures by the AP of an Israeli missile strike on Beirut apartment building.
- Oh, good lord.
- Pretty bold move in a campaign down by Round Rock.
- The FIU football stadium (officially Pitbull Stadium), as well as the team's uniforms, went with Miami Vice theme last night. Big thumbs up.
- Legal stuff: The Texas Supreme Court doesn't impact my practice like the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals does, but at least one judge on the former is very suspect. This is just the latest eye-brow raising scandal of Judge John Devine:
- The Wise County Sheriff's Office arrested a Chico man for "disrupting a meeting or procession" yesterday. (Book-in number 112960.) You don't see that very often.
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