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• Texas Singled Out in ABA Report
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• Link Between Crime & Lead Exposure
• Justice Kennedy's Remarks on Sentencing
• Strike 2 for Sentencing Guidelines
• Meds Being Restricted Due to Meth Fears
• Department of Justice Response to Supreme Court Decision in Blakely
• Sample Blakely Motion to Reduce Sentence
• New Case: 5th Circuit & Blakley
• NACDL Weighs In on Blakley
• Court Grants Portion of Motion to Compel
• Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit-Dallas Jail
• NEW SUPREME COURT UPDATE: SENTENCING GUIDELINES
• Getting Out Early-Federal Prison Drug Program
• Data Privacy & The 4th Amendment
• Can Prosecutors Buy Testimony?
• Murder Case Reversed-Fort Worth,Texas
• Another Recent Reversal
• Texas Parole Definitions
• District Judge Barred From Cases
• Texas Probation Overhaul Bill: Big Changes?
• Expunction Bill Passes Texas House
• One to Watch-Due Process
• Discovery Bill Not Dead-Yet
• Probation Overhaul Bill Passes
• DWI Breath Test: To Blow Or Not To Blow
• The CSI Factor-Jury Trials
• Plea Racket Bill Passes
• New Texas UCW Law
• United States Supreme Court Reverses Arthur Anderson Conviction
• Solid Sentencing Memorandum, Post-Booker
• Another Good Federal Sentencing Memorandum
• Post-Booker Sentencing Information-No Plea Agreement
• Dallas County Jail-Pathetic
• Associated Press Story, June 3, 2005
• News Story
• Intoxilizer 5000: Hiding the Ball
• "CSI effect"-DMN column June 21, 2005
• How Bad is the Dallas County Jail? The Dallas Morning News Articles & Editorials Tell the Story
• Newest DMN Editorial-Dallas Jail Problems
• DMN Editorial:Dallas County Jail
• Excellent Federal Venue Motion
• DMN Continues Scrutiny of Dallas Jail-Jim O'Neill
• New DWI Case-Field Sobriety Tests
• Recent Virginia DWI Case:Law Unconstitutional
• If You Can't Argue the Facts: Observer Story Re: Jail
• Dallas Jail: Here We Go Again
• Dallas Jail Computer Problems
• Dallas Observer Slams Jail
• Finn & Broden Team-Up For Federal Success
• US Supreme Court to Decide Home Search Issue
• Breath Test Source Code Controversy
• The Department of Justice Investigates Dallas Jail
• What to Expect from DOJ Visit-DMN
• Pulle & Dallas Observer Continue to Hammer Jail
• Mentally Ill Languish: Dallas Morning News
• Dallas DA Shootout: Texas Lawyer
• DMN- Man Lost in Jail 15 Months
• (AP)CNN Report-Cheney Hunting Accident
• The Associated Press: Hunting Accident
• DMN & DOJ: So Much For the Silver Star
• Dallas Jail & Dallas Observer: Mas del Mismo
• Dallas Jail Fail State Inspection for Third Straight Year: DMN
• Quit Reading those Jim O'Neill DMN Stories!
• Polygraph Results: Washington Post Article
• Polygraph Results: Washington Post Article
• Judge Slams US Attorney
• Dallas Jail: Dallas Morning News Story
• Lies, damned lies & misstatements
• Dallas County Jail: On & On.....
• Sheriff Alters Policy: No Longer Lost in Space?
• Dallas Observer Story
• DOJ Report: Preview
• Associated Press Report: Dallas Jail & DOJ
• The Dallas Morning News
• Starting to See a Pattern? Deliberate Indifference
• How To Pour $1 million Down A Black Hole
• Another DMN Editorial on the Jail
• New Hires: Dallas Morning News
• It's Official: Terri Moore Joins Dallas DA Office
• The Blame Game Continues-DMN
• Dallas DA's Office Takes Shape-Texas Lawyer
• New DWI Decision-Miami Herald
• Federal Motion-Reduced Sentence
• Pattern? What Pattern? Dallas Observer
• I Get The Feeling That Something Ain't Right..
• South Texas DA Arraigned on Corruption Charges-Associated Press
• Federal Officials on Jail/ WFAA-TV
• Sample Voir Dire-Real Case
• The Case Changed Everything-James Mims
• Dallas County Settles Federal Jail Case
• Dallas Jail-Dallas Business Journal
• Settlement- Associated Press
• Phones in Dallas Jail
• Settlement: The Dallas Morning News
• Waxahachie Daily Light-Legal Battle
• Judge Removed From Case-The Daily Light
• Factors to Consider in Drug Possession Cases
• New Dallas D.A.-Texas Lawyer
• DMN Editorial: Dallas Jail-More of the Same
• Dallas Observer-Glenna Whitley, April 2007
• A New Day: Texas Lawyer-Mark Donald
• Tenacious T: Texas Lawyer-Miriam Rosen
• Dallas Morning News-Kevin Krause, April 2007
• Enumerated Police Officer List
• National Do Not Call List-Act Now!
• Texas Legislature Targets Dallas Jail-Dallas Morning News
• Dallas Bar Anecdotal History Live-Transcript
• DPD Quota System?
• Perverted Justice-WFAA, Channel 8, Dallas
• Information: On-Line/Criminal Solicitation of a Minor
• DMN: Feds Watching Dallas Jail
• New Case-Texas Class C Expunctions
• Motion for Judicial Clemency-Sample
• Finn Teams up with Dan Cogdell and Mike Gibson in Dallas DISD Case
• New U.S. Supreme Court Decision-Sentencing Guidelines
• Coach Not Indicted: Dallas Morning News
• Federal & State: What's the Difference?
• Texas Lawyer: Felony DWI & Murder
• Downward Departure Upheld: Recent Opinion
• Confrontation Clause Alive & Well in Dallas
• Bogus Prosecution Costs the Feds $$$
• Legal Ethics Information & Websites
• Presumption of Innocence? Guess the Judge
• Now, The Voice of Reason (In Dissent)
• US Sues Dallas County in Federal Court over Jail
• Dallas Observer Story: Brady v. Maryland
• County Tries to Spin DOJ Lawsuit-Nice Try
• Court: Government Action Unconstitutional
• Sealing Juvenile Records in Texas
• Collin County Fireworks in Court
• New Dallas Grand Jury Policy-Texas Lawyer
• Judge Knize Redux-
• Crack Cocaine & Federal Court
• New Case Summary-January 2008
• New DWI Case-Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
• 6th Circuit: Acquitted Conduct & Booker
• DWI Technical Supervisor Testimony-David Burrows
• New Case- Confrontation Clause in Texas
• Texas Law re: Occupational Drivers License
• Nice Motion by Clint Broden
• Federal Reserve Board Aims to Curtail Predatory Lending Practices
• Predatory Lending-Is it a Crime?
• FBI Statistics/Report
• 2006 FBI Financial Crime Report
• Supreme Court Continues to Undercut Sentencing Guidelines
• Gall v. United States
• Gall & Kimbrough: Crime and Punishment in Federal Court
• More Great Federal Sentencing Stuff from Amy Baron-Evans
• Updates to the Adam Walsh Act: John Teakell, Milner & Finn
• Texas Federal/State Comparison: George Milner,III., Milner & Finn, Dallas, Texas
• Federal Misdemeanors-List
• New Supreme Court Decision-April 23, 2008
• Texas FLDS Case
• Dallas Jail-DMN & DOJ Report
• Expunction Update-July 2008
• David Finn on WFAA News Dallas
• Federal Convictions Reversed-2008
• Holder Should Support Executive Order On Attorney-Client Privilege
• Attorney-Client Privilege Reform Needed
• U.S. Supreme Court has had it with District Courts
• Federal Deferred, Nonprosecution Deals Fall by 60%
• Orders of Non-Disclosure
• Scalia Rocks
• New Texas Cases-March 2009 via Cheatham & Flach
• Stanford's No. 2 Davis Cooperating in Probe
• Stanford Aide To Help In $8 Billion Fraud Probe
• NPR-Stanford
• Stanford Update
• Attorney-Client Privilege Reform Needed
• Holder Should Support Executive Order On Attorney-Client Privilege
• "My Baloney has a first name, it's A-L-L-E-N"...
• Dallas Observer Stanford Story
• Stanford Update-Bloomberg
• New York Times Article
• New Supreme Court Case-Criminal Law
• David Finn - Stanford CFO Plea Interview
• Lawyer: Greed May Explain Former Stanford Associate's Actions
• Accused financier Stanford hospitalized hours before ex-finance chief pleads guilty
• Former Stanford CFO Cooperates With Feds
• "Blood Oath" Sealed Stanford Deal, Court Is Told
• David Finn Interviewed Regarding Felony Deportations
• Former head of Dallas’ Solar Soccer club indicted on charges he stole $800,000.
• Jury begins deliberations in concert assault case
• David Finn Defends Gun Violation
• Dallas DA’s office issues more subpoenas in investigation of sitting judge
• Highland Park family weighs options after son linked to TCU busts by mistake
• No indictment for Addison woman who took gun on airplane
• D Magazine's "Best of Dallas 2013" Issue - Best Lawyers in Dallas.
• Judge Orders Release of Dhawan Family Vehicle
• Standing up to Bully Judge
• Me on TV Show "I (Almost) Got Away with It."
• Ted Nugent's Wife Arrested with Gun at Texas Airport
• Chosen by Legal Peers as One of the best criminal defense lawyers in Dallas
• Mother Arrested For Alleged Murder of 10 Year Old
• Texas Boy, 10, Found Dead; Mother Charged With Murder
• Initial autopsy results in Frisco boy's death inconclusive; mom out on bond
• Husband Maintains Wife’s Innocence in Son’s Death
• Collin County medical examiner rules death of Frisco boy undetermined
• Judge orders Frisco police to return some items to family of dead boy
• Confusion follows Frisco boy's death; culture clash may be a factor
• The 2014 List of Dallas' Best Criminal Defense Lawyers - as voted by their peers.
• Wrongful death suit filed in 10-year-old’s drowning at Balch Springs park pond
• Family suing Balch Springs after daughter drowns in park's pond
• Balch Springs 10-Year-Old Drowns
• Dallas News Article: Did Legal Cloud Play a Role in Frisco Couple's Deaths?
• Lawyer Demands Independent Probe in Dhawan Case
• Attorney wants Frisco police to release note found at home of couple
• Dallas County DA Fight Stirs Talk of Inquiry into Judge Elizabeth Frizell
• Milner and Finn Host Reception for DA-elect Susan Hawk
• Manziel's Attorney Says Assault Indictment to Come Tuesday
• Deceptive Business Practices in Texas
• What is Fraudulent Use of Identifying Information?
• Defending Federal Conspiracy Charges in Texas
• Not Guilty Verdict! Defense of Alleged Wife on Husband Assault Prevent Mother From Seeing Her Kids

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