The Harrow: a Halloween Blog

Criminal defense law and tattoos intersect at several points—many of my clients have tattoos; I have my fair share of tattoos (clients are often surprised when I meet them at the jail or office on the weekend and am wearing a t-shirt and they see tattoos all over my...

Anonymous 911 Calls

I have written about confidential informants (“snitches”) previously—those situations where police employ a person (whose identity the police know), but whose identity remains unknown to the accused.   But, often enough, neither the police nor the accused know...

Drug Labs and Evidence Inspection

In Denton County (and in most counties), if a person is arrested for possessing a controlled substance, the substance is sent off to a lab to be tested. This is true for all drugs, except for marijuana which can be determined to be pot based on the police officer’s...