American Justice Notebook gets some positive ink on the website Voxxi. The story was written by a friend, Kevin Olivas, who is the Recruitment & Guidance Manager for the National Association of Hispanic…
Category: Notes – Cases – Thoughts & Quotes
Before Hiring a Wolf With a Law School Sheepskin, Do Your Homework
BY RAUL HERNANDEZ [email protected] While covering courthouses in El Paso and Ventura as a newspaper reporter, I was sometimes asked to recommend a lawyer for a criminal or a civil matter? I…
San Diego’s Two New Drug Tunnels, The Digging Continues and a Mexican Crime Stoppers Program
BY RAUL HERNANDEZ — A five month probe recently turned up two tunnels – one 800 feet long and the other 600 feet in length – that were connected from a San…
The Irishman, Twitter and the Kumbala Murders
By Raul Hernandez The Irishman still has a sense of humor but doesn’t go out much, anymore. Ken Flynn is 80, lives in Dallas and was a newspaper reporter for more than…
“Just Who Are These People?” – Chapo, Cuco and the Cartels
By Raul Hernandez Former Reporter at the El Paso Herald Post and El Paso Times There is a line in the movie, “No Country for Old Men.” where the tough, craggy face…
California’s Broken Prison System and Texas’ Billion-Dollar Fix
By Raul Hernandez The bold headlines in the New York Times last week read: “Court Gives California More Time to Ease Prison Crowding” “What amounts to a legal and political victory”…
Barrio Azteca Leader found guilty of U.S. Consulate Slayings Friday Also Responsible for Team of Cartel Assassins Who Killed Hundreds
El PASO, TEXAS — The leader of a violent prison gang who ordered the murders of three people tied to the U.S. Consulate – an employee, her husband and the husband of another U.S….
Twenty-Four Percent of Lawyers Who Passed Bar in 2000 Aren’t Practicing Law, Survey Finds
By American Bar Association Journal Reporter Debra Cassens Weiss A third-wave survey of lawyers who passed the bar in 2000 has found a decline in the percentage of lawyers practicing law and…