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	Articles Are In Chronological Order
	Hester Law Group Articles

	2010 (Articles coming soon)
	2009 A_Red_Herring Armed_and_Dangerous Bail_in_a_Federal_Case Cat's_Out_of_the_Bag
	2008 He Said He did it RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL What "Gall" Missing Witness Abuse PIERCE COUNTY CRIMINAL PROTOCOLS CONDITIONS OF RELEASE	Decline Hearing After Trial Smell Test Stinks When_Rearraignment Doesn’t Really Change the Charge Vacations_Constitutionally_Denied
	2007 Brady Lives Pit Bull as an Instrument Reality of Police Power Vindictive Prosecution in the Ninth Circuit An Arrow for the Quiver Corpus Delicti Rule Revisited	Predicting One's Own Death Claim Filing Amendment False Reporting Judging Judge Threats You Win Some You Lose Some
	2006 Expert? Manifestly Unreasonable RPC Update Witness Unavailability by Coercion The Conscience of a Jury is Alive Mental Defense Primer Prior Testimony Admitted in Retrial When a Theft is Not a Robbery	Davis Update Remand of Recuenco Tribunals What Are They Thinking A Deal is a Deal Experts Love This One Rule of Completeness Who can just say
	2005 A Request Unheeded Andress Retroactive Application Booker Blakely Update Publicans Prevail Aggravatingly Ineffective Civil Rights Crawford and 911 tapes Juveniles Are Still Not Entitled to Jury Trials	Spin on Apprendi and Blakely Deadly Weapon Enhancement Shot Down Expanded Use of ER 608 Fourth Amendment Applies to Individuals Facing Trial Time for High Tech Reasoning Who Am I
	2004 Alford Stops Estoppel Don't come knocking with a civil arrest warrant Felony Murder Update SENTENCE REDUCTION UPDATE Stalter vs State Attorney-Client privilege BIAS is not harmless	Non-custodial Arrest One Too Many Bad Prosecutor FEDERAL SENTENCING Hurry up and wait Exceptional Sentences Unconstitutional
	2003 Bail Able Freedom of Choice Representing The Absent Client Say No To Poly DUI State vs Shaffer The Future of Firearm Enhancements Put This in Your Pipe	Staking your claim Hear Today gone tomorrow Not One In The Same Don't Waive or its bye bye Recent Cases of Interest TEA TIME and the 9mm Glock
	2002 Piercing Qualified Immunity Police Responsibility Pursed Purse Claims Against Public Entities The Garrity Guarantee	Hyde Amendment Revisited Tailored Testimony DID is Not Done Due Process Internet Research
	2001 I Can Feel It In My Bones Out of State Polygraph Supervision Snitch Undermined Nets Reversal True and Accurate Warrants Cross examination of adopted silence Forfeiture of Firearms It Isn't good to be young Juvenile Jockeying for Jurisdiction Prosecutor's Notes	Up in Smoke Back to the future Excising to keep fit Self defense Subsequent Deferred Denied What if he really didn't do it Legal Briefs Come Up Short Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Sentencing Statute Special Inquiry Proceedings State v Alvarado
	2000 Consent as a defense Diminished Capacity Guns and Roses Insufficient Anonymity Carbohydration Don't stop Emotional Distress The formula for proving character Is Passenger Search Incident to Driver Is the Tide Changing	Whose Stuff Is This Bring Out The Needle Federal Sentencing Alert No Squeezin Refreshed Memory vs cant remember Juvenile Confession Suppressed Apprendi v New Jersey Court Hurls on Hurchalla Show Me the Money
	1999 Field sobriety testimonial Just the facts Oh its just a beating Supreme court update The big unit Anticipation behind door #3 peeping cop Failing forfeiture	Junk science License Registration, and Title, Please Readers corner Unprecedented When in Doubt, Nuke! No nexus; No Warrant Refusing FSTs Supreme court toughens standard The defendant misunderstood
	1998 Expert Testimony It Works Man! Prosecutors must be impartial Jury Misconduct	Justice for all Circumstantial Evidence Circumscribed I need it Knock talk and walk
	1997 Assertion of Constitutional Right, A crime? He say she say hear say Venue and the Constitution Watts this	Abusers of child hearsay Stalking The end Vrondee vs Sport
	1996 FEDERAL DISCOVERY FORFEITURE Knock Knock Nela Swela VICTIM WHERE YOU GONNA GO Civil Forfeiture THE JUICE VERDICT SPILLOVER	Juvenile Justice Statute RCW 9-94A-380 Where You Gonna Go; 1 Being Acquitted and Doing time Paid at Last What You Think Is Not What You See What's a Headdress worth? Why prepare trial briefs

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