tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post1248837755322675730..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: The CCA, Judicial Activism, and Texas' Statutory Exclusionary RuleGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86715623424304773962017-03-27T17:47:12.670-05:002017-03-27T17:47:12.670-05:00Good points, Grits. I despised "outcome-orie...<br /><br />Good points, Grits. I despised "outcome-oriented judging" in my 30 years as did most of my colleagues. Is Yeary to be the Keller-inheritor?ATTICUSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-23386229030825579942017-03-26T16:23:42.802-05:002017-03-26T16:23:42.802-05:00Okay. Here's the problem fundamental to the Te...Okay. Here's the problem fundamental to the Texas judicial system. The State's Attorney's meaning District Attorneys Attorneys General and any attorney representing the state and any action, are all grouped under the judicial branch in the Texas Constitution. And most of the rest of the states, if not all, these folks are grouped in the executive branch. Now, I know you're all familiar with the concept of separation of powers. This exists on not only a federal level but a state level also. Show in Texas you have three branches of government - the legislative, the executive and the judicial. The problem was Texas's constitutional arrangement with having DAs in the judicial branch is you get a hot and heavy relationship between any and all judges sitting on cases and the District Attorney's office. They are both in the same branch of government the judicial branch. This results in all too often judges making questionable decisions tilted in favor of district attorneys. If you ask me I believe this should and indeed must be changed. Because this anomaly of Texas constitutional law is the source of 100% of all the BS in Texas criminal jurisprudence. The Texas legislature needs to wake up and smell the roses. Texas is known throughout the Union as being perhaps the most unjust state and it's Criminal jurisprudence, period. And what I am saying here every judge and attorney knows is true, regardless of whether or not he'll admit to it.<br /> In conclusion, given there is no justice in the state of Texas, clearly the situation will not change soon unfortunately. Take it from me, Paul James Koumjian, absurdly convicted of a felony for possession 0.47 ounces of marijuana in the year 2000, when everybody and their grandmother knows possession of 4 ounces or less of marijuana is a misdemeanor in Texas since 1973. And that happened in El Paso County where half the criminal justice system is under the influence of Controlled Substances or marijuana for starters, arguably. This tilted warped system of Criminal Justice in Texas is SO corrupted these days that at least a dozen Texas and United States judges and justices flatly refused to reach the true merits of my legal arguments for tossing out my "felony" conviction, during 16 years of my imprisonment. Only buying a parole got me out ($5000.00). <br /> I am available for interviews. Go to: www.facebook.com/GetOutOfTexasPrisons <br />For my contact info.www.facebook.com/GetOutOfTexasPrisonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10087539741961956321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-48379469816763179972017-03-26T15:58:12.041-05:002017-03-26T15:58:12.041-05:00On the CCA, they are Judges, not Justices. I'...On the CCA, they are Judges, not Justices. I'm not being snarky. Look at the CCA website. It's the correct way to refer to them. <br /><br />Although Judge Alcala really does deserve the title "Justice."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-29398339464842478742017-03-26T11:27:27.760-05:002017-03-26T11:27:27.760-05:00With all due respect for Justice Yeary, he is writ...With all due respect for Justice Yeary, he is writing the majority opinions with GAW results every week. He came from the same District Attorney's Office as Justice Hervey. Justice Yeary was recently elected and has somehow taken control of the CCA. I cannot remember when he wrote an opinion that did not have a GAW approach. No other justices, barring Alcala, seem to be standing up to him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com