“With certain very limited exceptions, each step of the federal judicial process is open to the public. Many federal courthouses are historic buildings, and all are designed to inspire in the public a respect for the tradition and purpose of the American judicial process,” according to court officials.
Category: Notes – Cases – Thoughts & Quotes
Supreme Court: Cops Need a Warrant Before They Can Rummage Through Cell Phones
If police want to rummage through a person’s cell phone and look at his wedding or family photographs; find out his doctors appointments; read his private emails or texts to friends and…
American Justice Notebook Website Story on Voxxi.com
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…
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…