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Good Lawyerin', Texas Style

By John Bringardner

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Our friends at Tex Parte bring us news of a good ol' fashioned Texas lawyer shout-out, courtesy an A&E reality TV show called "After the First 48." The new show documents what happens in a Texas capital murder case in the days after a suspect is arrested -- following a series of events chronicled in "The First 48." The highlight of this episode was a spectacular shouting match between Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Marc Moffitt and Edwin V. King, a Dallas criminal defense attorney. After Tracy Holmes, judge of the 363rd District Court, asked Moffitt why one of his crucial witnesses was absent from the courtroom, he told her: "Well, that's because some lawyer told them they didn't have to come." King, thinking Moffitt was insinuating that Moffitt meant King, got in Moffitt's face and screamed "That's a [BLEEP] lie!" To which Moffitt yelled: "I didn?t say it was you!" Lawyers in Texas certainly aren't the only ones ever to raise their voices in the heat of the moment, but they're pretty damned good at it. And thankfully it sometimes gets caught on tape. Exhibt A: Jenkens & Gilchrist's infamous pep rally video. I once read an interview with...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).