Friday, August 19, 2016

A judge's writing "tinged with despair"

This is how it feels to serve as the resident voice of reason on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals:

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Despair" was when Charlie Baird was writing majority opinions for the CCA.

Gritsforbreakfast said...

Since Charlie's tenure coincided with steep upward growth both in incarceration rates and convictions per arrest, it seemed to me prosecutors like yourself didn't make out so badly back in the day, 5:11.

tiapa said...

Anonymous @5:11 is not anonymous?

Gritsforbreakfast said...

Anonymous, but also transparent.

Mark M. said...

Charlie didn't feel he was "on the team." Rather, his opinions appear to recognize that the Constitution is not a "technicality." Were the three (maybe now four?) automatons occupying court seats similarly situated, perhaps the CCA wouldn't be such a laughingstock.