Year: 2015
Our System is Failing our Combat Veterans
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,...
Honoring Veterans by Giving Back
Shane Phelps Law. Endows A&M Veterans Scholarship As the bus neared the underpass outside the back gate, everyone suddenly stopped talking. It was early morning...
Doing the Lord’s Work?
I have heard it said many times by prosecutors that they do “the Lord’s work.” Since going out on my own to start a private...
Gas Chromatography, DWI, and Me
I was an English Literature major at Rice University. I have always believed, and have always counseled young people determined to go to law school,...
Of Beaumont, Justice, and Waffles (Part the Second)
Some time ago, in a legal jurisdiction far, far away – okay, Beaumont – I was appointed Jefferson County Criminal District Attorney Pro Tem to...
The Completely True Story Behind Atticus Finch Day
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. — Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird Every year for the past...