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Invalid Driver Licenses, Part II – As of September 1, 2019, the surcharge program has been eliminated. To the extent this blog addresses the disastrous effects of the surcharge screw, please disregard that part of it.

• By Phillip Goff
• 1 May 2015
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OMNI Millions of people in Texas simply don’t show up to court or otherwise take care of their tickets. Reasons vary from forgetfulness to fear to outright defiance. Regardless of the reason, it creates a massive caseload of “old” tickets. Literally millions of unpaid/skipped-out-on-court tickets are outstanding in Texas. The sheer volume is so vast […]

Invalid Driver Licenses, Part I – As of September 1, 2019, the surcharge program has been eliminated. To the extent this blog addresses the disastrous effects of the surcharge screw, please disregard that part of it.

• By Phillip Goff
• 30 Mar 2015
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Legislators appear enamored with holding driver licenses hostage. When I started as a lawyer, I discovered at least 17 different ways people could lose their licenses. Licenses can be invalidated for not paying child support, non-payment of surcharges, conviction of possession of marijuana and other drugs, driving while license invalid, refusal to provide a breath […]

Institutionalized Bad Faith Forensics

• By Phillip Goff
• 17 Feb 2015
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Crime “Labs” in America – Recipe for Corruption What’s worse in the criminal justice system: 1) institutionalized corruption of scientific integrity; or 2) an attempt to manipulate the situation to make it appear one believes scientific integrity is important? Crime lab scandals throughout the United States have become common, with even the vaunted FBI being […]

“Us Versus Them” attitudes undermine “Us”

• By Phillip Goff
• 13 Jan 2015
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I am eyeballs deep in Dallas Cowboy country, and Sunday was an angry day for many, maybe almost all, Cowboy fans.  You see, the Cowboys lost a heartbreaker to the Green Bay Packers in a close, hard fought game.   Cowboy fans are in uproar because of an unfavorable ruling against their team. They are […]

How much difference can Floyd Simpson make to Corpus Christi?

• By Phillip Goff
• 3 Jan 2015
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A few months ago, I was at Corpus Christi’s City Hall to find some information.  As I walked in, I must have looked lost because a man with a clipboard and a big smile noticed me and offered to help.  I thought that was a nice approach, so I made it a point to ask his name, […]

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