Category: Texas
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“It’s Only a Few Bad Apples…” – News flash Mr./Ms. Slow Learner and Wilfully Ignorant, it only takes one bad apple to eventually spoil the whole barrel, which is what that adage originally means. It does NOT mean that having ONLY one or more mixed into a full barrel of good apples is nothing major…
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In almost any “traffic” court, the State and its witness’s are relying solely on legal presumptions and conclusions, not admissible facts and evidence. Don’t let them get away with it.
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This red light camera enforcement issue goes hand-in-hand with the “administrative surcharges” issue on certain actual traffic citations as BOTH are constitutionally prohibited Bills of Pains and Penalties. No state legislature, as a matter of constitutional prohibition and mandate, can allow ANY of the contracts with these red light camera companies to remain in force…
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What are the statutory elements required to actually ALLEGE and PROVE a “speeding” offense in Texas? Believe it or not, there are actually 21 individual statutory elements. Yes, that is a two (2) and a one (1). And it is my experience that the STATE knowingly and intentionally avoids providing the required due process Notice…
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This letter is a response from one of our many Statist and inept Texas State senators. And like most, she is clueless about individual rights and who can and cannot do what, with what, and when, or to whom. So, I decided to show her what I think would have been a proper redress of…
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How do you go about getting rid of a bad or corrupt municipal or justice court judge? It’s not really as hard as you think, at least not in Texas. However, one thing that you need to be aware of is that, while the rules for disqualifying a municipal judge are laid out in…
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Okay, I received an interesting email from someone in South Carolina (S.C.) that brought up the following issues with the judge’s bench book as used in their courts. Here is what he asked about: ============================== I read your piece about city ordinances. This is from the SC Summary Court Judge’s Benchbook: …
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For those of you that are regular listeners to my radio show on Rule of Law Radio / Logos Radio Network, you have often heard me make mention of all of the very substantial reasons that red light cameras are completely unconstitutional right out of the gate. And, as noted in one of my other…
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Okay, the ‘hyper down-and-dirty’ version of this issue is this. State law does NOT authorize the stopping, detaining, arresting or impounding of persons or cars for lack of registration, a driver’s license, or for lack of proof of/actual financial responsibility. The “Registration” chapter is Chapter 502, the “Driver’s License” chapter is Chapter 521, and the…
