Mary Alice Robbins

March 13, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

A former Court of Criminal Appeals judge will face off against a current CCA law clerk in the November battle for a trial court bench in the state capital.

By Mary Alice Robbins, John Council, Miriam Rozen and Mark Donald

15 minute read

November 07, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Most of the prosecutors, criminal-defense lawyers and defendants involved in Travis County DA Ronnie Earle's prosecution of public officials � before the Tom DeLay investigation � come to the same conclusion: Politics had little � if anything � to do with Earle's reasons for prosecuting politicians.

By John Council and Mary Alice Robbins

28 minute read

November 13, 2000 | Law.com

With Texas' highest courts already under Republican control, the GOP picked up four more seats on the mid-level appellate courts. Now the question is whether judicial decisions will be impacted by the fact Republicans will hold nearly two of every three seats on the state's mid-level appellate courts. "In certain politically charged cases, it will have an effect," says law professor James Paulsen.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys, Mary Alice Robbins, and John Council

13 minute read

December 22, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Michael Ramsey, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sharon Pierce, Joe Jamail, Donald Godwin and Mike Gruber, State Bar of Texas chief disciplinary counsel Dawn Miller, Jeff Blackburn and Mitchell Katine

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys, Mary Alice Robbins, Miriam Rozen, John Council

44 minute read

November 13, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Dallas County Democrats had nearly made a clean sweep of the courthouse in the Nov. 7 election. For Republican candidates, it didn�t matter whether they were female, well-financed, received the endorsement of the Dallas Morning News, had targeted their opponent in an attack ad or shared the same ballot name as legendary former Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade. All that mattered was party affiliation. Simply put: if you were a Democrat, you won.

By Miriam Rozen, Mark Donald and Mary Alice Robbins

21 minute read

November 11, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

In the Nov. 5 general election, Steven Wayne Smith -- a political outsider who turned off Republican financial backers by beating an appointee of Gov. Rick Perry's in the GOP primary last March -- easily defeated Democrat Margaret Mirabal for Place 4 on the high court. Smith's win proves that money and endorsements -- of which he had little -- are less important than the party label in Texas' statewide judicial races, several political analysts say.

By John Council and Mary Alice Robbins

11 minute read