Federal Grand Jury: It is famously said that any competent prosecutor can “get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.”

you must be stupid~ and legally trained in how to be stupid Please tell us ....now who are you?

Send "The Logical Song" Ringtone to Cell Phone Send Ringtone

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well theyd be singing so happily,
Joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
Clinical, intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Wont you sign up your name, wed like to feel you're
Acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!

At night, when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

Republican Gov. Rick Perry could make an appointment to that position in September. Isassi, a Democrat, has sought the intervention of a prominent loc

Kleberg counsel indicted in abuse-of-power case

By Dan Kelley (Contact)
Friday, July 20, 2007
Isassi's case stems from charges against a relative.
Isassi's case stems from charges against a relative.

Alfred Isassi, who is seeking appointment to a newly created district attorney position, was indicted Thursday on misdemeanor charges accusing him of abuse of his powers as Kleberg County Attorney.

Isassi faces one count of abuse of official capacity and three counts of exercising improper influence.

The indictment stems from the arrest of an aunt, Anna Linda Gonzalez, on a felony count of evading in a vehicle in 2005.

Isassi is alleged to have told Assistant District Attorney Aida Trevino that the charges against his aunt were to be dismissed. The indictment also alleges that he told two employees of the county's probation department that his aunt did not have to report for pre-trial supervision.

Bond was issued at $1,000, according to District Clerk Martha Soliz.

Isassi could not be reached for comment.

Kingsville Mayor Sam R. Fugate, a lawyer who is advising Isassi but has not been retained by Isassi, said, "I'm sure this will come out in his favor."

"I feel bad for him and his family," Fugate said. "He's a good young man and a good lawyer."

Kleberg County Judge Pete De La Garza said Isassi will continue to represent the county.

"You need to understand that an indictment is not a conviction," De La Garza said. "It's an accusation."

De La Garza said he did not know if the county would pay Isassi's legal fees -- in some circumstances the county has a choice in the matter, in some circumstances it does not.

As county attorney, Isassi is responsible for prosecuting misdemeanors. He is also a former assistant district attorney, serving under Carlos Valdez, the district attorney for Kleberg, Kenedy and Nueces counties.

Valdez said in a previous interview that he and two top aides could be called to testify at trial.

The Legislature this year created a district attorney position to cover Kleberg and Kenedy counties. Republican Gov. Rick Perry could make an appointment to that position in September. Isassi, a Democrat, has sought the intervention of a prominent local Republican -- whom he declined to identify -- to intercede with the governor.

A special prosecutor was appointed to investigate and try the case.

Contact Dan Kelley at 886-4316 or kelleyd@caller.com

("[t]o punish a person because he has done what the law plainly allows him to do is a due process violation of the most basic sort, and for an agent..

8. Castleberry v. State, 704 S.W.2d 21, 24 (Tex. Crim. App. 1984) ("[t]o punish a person because he has done what the law plainly allows him to do is a due process violation of the most basic sort, and for an agent of the State to pursue a course of action whose objective is to penalize a person's reliance on his legal rights is 'patently unconstitutional.'") (quoting Hayes, 434 U.S. at 363).

Yup that is what they do everyday to the illegally trained......especially those most vulnerable, children and their parents in Nueces County JP 2-2 court.

We should all be so lucky as to get this type of "super" legal representation

Richard Warren Mithoff has been described by the National Law Journal as “one of the nation’s highest profile litigators,” and the Texas Lawyer, noting his “impressive trial record,” has described his approach to the law as “magic.”

He has consistently been named among the top trial lawyers in the country:



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In naming Mr. Mithoff the “Best Civil Lawyer” in Houston in 1998 and again in 2004, the Houston Press described his courtroom style as “dazzling his opposition with pretrial maneuvers and connecting emotionally with any juror he needs,” while noting that he has “earned a reputation for honesty and forthrightness with clients, judges, and the media.”

Practicing in the area of general civil litigation with Mithoff Law Firm, Mr. Mithoff has focused on personal injury and commercial litigation, including medical malpractice, products liability, aviation, and admiralty cases. Mr. Mithoff has recovered more than $1 million by verdict or settlement in over 100 personal injury and commercial cases, and has successfully defended clients in commercial cases involving claims of several hundred million dollars for breach of contract, antitrust, trade secrets, and patent infringement. His diverse list of clients includes San Diego Padres owner John Moores, the family of former Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams, the family of police-shooting victim Pedro Oregon, the Democratic Party, J. P. Morgan Chase in the Enron litigation, Momentum Operating Co. and families of the BP Texas City explosion, the bus accident involving senior citizens fleeing Houston and Hurricane Rita and victims of a bus accident between Mexico and Houston (near Victoria, Texas).

Significant Cases

In 1998, Mr. Mithoff represented Harris County in the tobacco litigation and joined with several other attorneys in securing a judgment in excess of $2.2 billion in behalf of all Texas counties and hospital districts. He requested that $10 million from his fee in that case be retained by Harris County to fund children’s health programs. The Houston Chronicle, in an editorial praising the landmark settlement, described Mr. Mithoff as a “powerhouse attorney” whose “charitable gesture is deserving of the highest accolades.”

In 1999, in a complex trade secret dispute involving major business entities, Mr. Mithoff, along with other attorneys, negotiated a confidential settlement in which claims against their client, the defendant, were dismissed completely, with the plaintiff paying $39 million in damages to settle a counterclaim for anti-trust damages.

In 2000, Mr. Mithoff obtained a verdict of $40 million against Columbia Hospital for acting with malice in the retention of a staff physician whose botched surgery resulted in catastrophic brain injury to the patient, the first such verdict of its kind in the country. The case was subsequently settled after it was reversed and remanded for new trial.

In 2002, Mr. Mithoff won a verdict of $29 million in behalf of the family of a man killed in a rollover accident, securing a judgment against Sears, the tire retailer, in the first verdict in the country involving a Bridgestone/Firestone tire since the recall in 2000. (Settled on appeal.)

In 2003, Mr. Mithoff negotiated a $10 million settlement in behalf of the family of a 9-year-old child burned to death in a fire resulting from a rear-end collision with a Houston Metro bus, prompting calls for reform, in the hiring and training procedures of the bus operator First Transit.

In 2003, Mr. Mithoff represented the 42-year-old victim of an. explosion at the Imperial Sugar Co. facility in Sugar Land, Texas, citing defects with its explosion suppression system. The case settled for $5.5 million.

In 2004, Mr. Mithoff won a verdict of $24.7 million against Progressive Insurance Company, among others, for negligence in arranging for a rental car by a man known by the company to have had a recent history of convictions for driving while intoxicated, resulting in the collision and fire, and the death of a 56-year-old woman. (Settled on appeal.)

Also in 2005 Mr. Mithoff negotiated settlements for families of five victims killed in the explosion at the BP plant in Texas City. He also settled suits for victims of the 2004 BP explosion. (Confidential settlements)

In 2006 Mr. Mithoff negotiated settlements for the families of victims who died fleeing Hurricane Rita in a bus charted by the Brighton Gardens of Bellaire Senior Citizen Center. (Confidential settlements)

In 2007, Mr. Mithoff won a verdict of $31.8 million against Allied Van Lines in behalf of the families of a 9-year-old child and an 18-year-old woman burned to death and two victims who were severely burned in a fire resulting from a rear-end collision with an Allied Van.

Pioneering Cases

Mr. Mithoff won the first case to establish a defect in silicone breast implants in a landmark decision in 1977, and he and his firm in recent years have recovered over $70 million for clients in breast implant litigation.

Nationally, he is recognized for his “pioneering litigation” in cases of babies suffering brain damage during childbirth. One of his first widely publicized cases involved a $119 million structured settlement in a malpractice case against a Pasadena hospital in behalf of a child injured at birth. The case was featured on ABC’s Nightline and led to changes in the laws relating to hospital reporting requirements for the misconduct of doctors.

A $10.5 million judgment obtained in 1997 by Mr. Mithoff in behalf of a pregnant woman against a hospital and anesthesiologist with a history of drug abuse required the hospital to make sweeping changes in its by-laws and drug screening procedures--an order described as a “precedent setting decision” by the American Hospital Association.

Another landmark case won by Mr. Mithoff in 1993 involved the death of a young woman from hyponatremia--a low sodium condition affecting primarily women and young children following the use of improper IV solutions after surgery. The verdict resulted in changes in hospital procedures concerning the use of such IV fluids, and one of the experts involved in recommending these changes has estimated that such changes will save thousands of lives every year.

Mr. Mithoff has been involved in many other landmark cases over the years in which resulting changes in product design or usage have led to a reduction in risk of injury. These cases include litigation involving the defective Dalkon Shield IUD, which increased the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, and defective tampons, which elevated the dangers of toxic shock syndrome.

Professional Background

A native of Lufkin and reared in El Paso, Mr. Mithoff attended the University of Texas at Austin, majoring in business administration. After graduating in 1968, he enrolled in the UT Law School, graduating in 1971. He was Project Editor of the Texas Law Review in his final year at UT. Following graduation, he clerked for U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice. In 1974, he went into practice with legendary trial attorney Joe Jamail with the firm that later became Jamail, Kolius & Mithoff. In 2006 he established the Mithoff Law Firm.

Mr. Mithoff has endowed a series of scholarships at his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, including a Presidential Scholarship in law for educationally, socially and culturally disadvantaged students at the UT Law School, a Presidential Scholarship for disabled students at UT Business School and an endowed professorship in neonatal/perinatal medicine at the UT School of Medicine. The UT Medical School endowment funded community outreach perinatal centers, as well as the Life Flight program to bring injured babies quickly from outlying community hospitals to major medical centers.

Active in State Bar committees and Continuing Legal Education, Mr. Mithoff has served on the Supreme Court of Texas Committee on Judicial Appointments, on the State Bar of Texas Committee on Pattern Jury Charges, and as Special Assistant Disciplinary Counsel to the Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline. He has also been a guest speaker at many seminars on a variety of topics throughout the country. He has served as president of the Houston Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and president of the Houston Trial Lawyers.

In 1997, Mr. Mithoff was awarded the Jurisprudence Award by the Anti-Defamation League in recognition of his “immense talents, persuasive ability, and energy to fight for the principles enshrined in the Constitution and the League’s mission--justice and fair treatment for all.”

Richard and Ginni Mithoff were awarded the first Ben Taub Humanitarian Award by Harris County Hospital District Foundation in 2000 in recognition of their philanthropic endeavors as exemplified by the “generosity, interest and advocacy for health care” of the late Ben Taub. The hospital district named its world-class trauma center the Ginni and Richard Mithoff Trauma Center at the Ben Taub Hospital in 2007.

They were selected as honorees at the Children at Risk accolades luncheon in 2002 for their “continuous commitment and service to the children of Houston” and were honored by County Judge Robert Eckels and the Harris County Commissioners Court with a Proclamation that Wednesday, October 2, 2003, be Ginni and Richard Mithoff and Children at Risk Day, in recognition of their efforts “making a positive difference in the lives of the children of our community.” The couple was honored in 2003 with the Samaritan Spirit Award in recognition of their “significant contributions to human health and growth” and in 2007 by Family Services of Greater Houston as the 2007 Family of the Year.

Mr. Mithoff enjoys skiing and mountain climbing. His summits have included Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and the Grand Teton in Wyoming, as well as numerous climbs in Patagonia in South America as well as the Pyrenees in Spain, the Mont Blanc range in France, the Drakensberg range in South Africa, and numerous rock climbs in Wyoming and Colorado. He and his wife, Ginni, have two children, Michael and Caroline, and three grandchildren, Mia, daughter of Michael and his wife, Melissa and their twin sons, Max and Matthew



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The Prosecution and the Judges are paid by the same "GanG"......."Verdad?"

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Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer” and one of its “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” “the top lawyer of last resort,” “America’s most public Jewish defender” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.” He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg.

He has also published more than 100 articles in magazines and journals such as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post. The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, Commentary, Saturday Review, The Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal, and more than 300 of his articles have appeared in syndication in 50 national daily newspapers. Professor Dershowitz is the author of 27 fiction and non-fiction works with a worldwide audience. His most recent titles include Rights From Wrong, The Case For Israel, The Case For Peace, Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence and Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways, Finding Jefferson – A Lost Letter, A Remarkable Discovery, and The First Amendment In An Age of Terrorism.

In addition to his numerous law review articles and books about criminal and constitutional law, he has written, taught and lectured about history, philosophy, psychology, literature, mathematics, theology, music, sports – and even delicatessens.

In 1983, the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith presented him with the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award for his "compassionate eloquent leadership and persistent advocacy in the struggle for civil and human rights." In presenting the award, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel said: "If there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different." Professor Dershowitz has been awarded the honorary doctor of laws degree by Yeshiva University, the Hebrew Union College, Brooklyn College, Syracuse University and Haifa University. The New York Criminal Bar Association honored him for his "outstanding contribution as a scholar and dedicated defender of human rights."


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Voices of Antisemitism



Alan Dershowitz is concerned over what he views as a rising tide of antisemitic speech on American college campuses.



ALAN DERSHOWITZ:


I sure hope that [Jean-Paul] Sartre was not right that the antisemite makes the Jew. When I was growing up, antisemitism determined where we could work, where we could live, where we could go to school, who we could socialize with. None of that's true today. Antisemitism, its not a central phenomenon in the life of Americans. Whereas, of course, assimilation and other ways of Judaism being endangered from within are increasing problems. I think what we need is positive Judaism. We need young Jews to see the strengths, the positive aspects of Judaism, not only as a religion but as a culture, a civilization, as part of one's way of life. Even though antisemitism is not a function of their own lives.

DANIEL GREENE:


Author, professor, and civil liberties attorney Alan Dershowitz is concerned over what he views as a rising tide of antisemitic speech on American college campuses. Dershowitz calls upon his peers to condemn those who would use such rhetoric to justify hatred of Jews.

Welcome to Voices on Antisemitism, a free podcast series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I'm Daniel Greene. Every other week, we invite a guest to reflect about the many ways that antisemitism and hatred influence our world today. Here's Harvard Law School professor, Alan Dershowitz.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ:


I never wanted to write the book The Case for Israel. I wanted to write The Case for Peace, which I eventually did. I had to write The Case for Israel, even though nobody has to write The Case for Canada, or The Case for New Zealand, or The Case for France or [The Case for] England, because the case against Israel was being so prominently featured on American university campuses, and it was based on such ignorance that I had to get the liberal case for Israel out there based on facts. And when I did that it was seen immediately as an enormous threat to the hard left presence on campuses.

If you look at some of the cartoons that are being used against Israel, against Israeli leaders and supporters of Israel, most recently against me, the propaganda effort has changed. And instead of a conversation about Israel and the Palestinians, there is an attempt to dehumanize Israel and to demonize Israel. And Holocaust denial is increasing. Holocaust minimization is increasing. Holocaust comparativization is increasing. And education is critically important. When a Holocaust denier speaks on a college or university campus, I see that as an educational moment, as an opportunity to educate students, and instead of trying to ban the speaker, respond and educate.

It's good to be critical of Israeli policies, just like it's good to be critical of American policies. I'm no less a patriot because I'm critical of the Iraq war or other American policies. And I'm no less a Zionist because I'm critical of many Israeli policies. Even criticism of Zionism is perfectly acceptable intellectually. It's the double standard, the hyper-criticism, the unwillingness to find anything decent in Israel, that begins to blur the lines between criticism of Israel the state, and criticism of Israel, the Jew among the states.

When I speak on college campuses, and I speak on many, I get calls the next day always, almost in a whispered voice: "Thank you for speaking up."

And I ask, "Why don't you speak up?"

"Well, you know, we don't want to be unpopular with students. We don't want to get into controversial areas. We don't want to be politically incorrect."

It's appalling how irresponsible most American academics have been in the face of this well-organized campaign to turn our current generation of college students and our future leaders against Israel and against Jewish interests and values. We have the responsibility to stop it. We have the resources to stop it. We have the ability to stop it. And if we fail to respond to hate speech, it's our fault.

DANIEL GREENE:


Voices on Antisemitism is a free podcast series of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Join us every other week to hear a new perspective on the continuing threat of antisemitism in our world today. To contribute your thoughts to our series, please call 888-70USHMM, or visit our Web site at www.ushmm.org. At that site, you can also listen to Voices on Genocide Prevention, a podcast series on contemporary genocide.
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