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    WHY BABIES MUST CARRY GUNS TO MAKE AMERICA SAFE!

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    After a 2013 school shooting, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre, proposed the “Model School Shield Program”. The “Model School Shield Program” called for Congress to put armed guards in all of our 98,817 public schools. In other words, Wayne’s solution …

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    Could you handle 284 Juvenile Cases in 291 days?

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    Friends-   How we treat juveniles in this system is as disgraceful as anything I have ever seen.

    It is one thing to provide ineffective assistance of counsel to adults. It is an entirely different and more odious thing to provide …

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    It takes a Great Person to Make a Great Judge

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    I readily admit that I am an outspoken critic of the criminal justice system.  I think it our duty as participants to do our best to make the system better. To me, that means I should do my best …

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    10 Houston Lawyers Set New Indoor Record Handling 3576 Felonies in One Year!!!

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    We must reform  the disgraceful  Court appointment system in Houston, Harris County Texas.

    The Judges in Harris County  are  human beings which means, notwithstanding the robe, they can  make mistakes.  When  a group of judges, acting in concert,  …

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    We must Change Harris County’s Shameful Appointment System Now.

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    We must do away  with the ugly appointment system in Harris County. Good people like  State Senator Rodney Ellis and Past HCCLA President Jack Zimmerman, as well  as  others worked hard to pass this Act.

    The problem is …

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