Concerned that mentally impaired indigents too often languish in their jail, Lubbock County officials are trying a new approach – a private defender’s office. It’s a hybrid; a cross between a public defender’s office and the assigned counsel system used in most Texas counties. Read the full article here.

There’s a pretty good story in the Texas Tech student newspaper about LCDLA’s latest cause, the War Against College Kids. LCDLA is not mentioned by name (you can’t control the press, I’ve learned), but there are excellent quotes from Jill Stangl and Trey McClendon. Alcohol Citations Concern Administrators

07:45 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Every country in Europe, and nearly every country in the Americas, has abolished the death penalty. It is carried out today in just a handful of countries: China, Iran, Congo – and the United States. We are out of step with our allies and the countries with which we share history and [...]