Anecdotes – Page 3 – David Scoggins

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Hugh Lucas
Tags: green, hills, valleys
Date: June 22, 1999
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Herb Green and hills and valleys

[page 112, line 10] Herb in voir dire would ask everyone many times, you know, “Do you live on a hill, or do you live in a valley?” Herb’s idea was if you lived on a hill, you’re always looking down on people. You know, you’re not going to be a very good juror because&h...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Hugh Lucas
Tags: green, spanish
Date: June 22, 1999
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Herb Green and bad Spanish

[page 111, line 22] Everybody has got Herb Green stories. I tried a lot of cases with Herb Green. And I wish some of you who didn’t know him could have known him. Herb Green was an interesting individual. As was said earlier, Herb could speak pretty good Spanish but not great Spanish. I’...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Hugh Lucas
Tags: husband, prosecuting, trying
Date: June 22, 1999
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Husband prosecuting wife for trying to kill him

[page 109, line 6] Charles was a heck of an investigator, but he got in a little bit of trouble pulling over speeders on the freeway. While he was riding his motorcycle he’d pull over individuals. He tried to arrest someone for urinating in public on the toll road. He stopped someone for spee...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Hugh Lucas
Tags: badge, carver, charles, design
Date: June 22, 1999
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Charles Carver and badge design

[page 108, line 14] Jan “Snooky” Davis, the investigator, he was chief investigator. Well, Wade didn’t like for his investigators to be playing police or to have badges or be involved in raids or anything of that store. Well, Snooky David assigned Charles Carver, a new investigator...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Hugh Lucas
Tags: about, pistol, practical
Date: June 22, 1999
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Practical joke about pistol

[page 107, line 20] But the practical joking then was something that you just — you never really got used to. I came in with a pretty good group. Jim Barklow, Mike McCollum, Bill Hill, Jon Sparling, Winfield Scott, a bunch of pretty good guys that I followed that came into the D.A.’s off...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Hugh Lucas
Tags: parties, press
Date: June 22, 1999
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Press parties

[page 106, line 24] We had what we called the press party back then. The parties were parties back during that time, and we all thought we had some type of license or exemption from public intox or DWI or anything else back in the 60’s. Maybe we did; I don’t know. But the infamous&hellip...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Hugh Lucas
Tags: embarrassing, henry
Date: June 22, 1999
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Embarrassing Henry Wade

[page 105, line 25] Alexander was different to say the last. He wasn’t there very long after I came to Dallas. He said a few other things that got him in some trouble and ended up leaving the D.A.’s office. But the Criminal Bar Association was quite different back then. I was told when I...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Hugh Lucas
Tags: alexander, parade, throw, willing
Date: June 22, 1999
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Bill Alexander willing to throw a parade

[page 104, line 24] JUDGE VANCE: Hugh Lucas. MR. LUCAS: You know, I look over this group and, along with Mike McCollum, I thought I was going to be the youngest guy until Doug pulled in. But I think the way it used to be back when I came with the D.A.’s office back in…...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Chief Doug Kowalski
Tags: ambulance
Date: June 22, 1999
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Ambulance

[page 101, line 17] Finally, as we progress through a man’s life we get into senility. And this is a story of when I was a captain in the tactical division. And we had an incident where there was a guy approximately 86, 87 years old. His wife was about the same age. She would…...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Chief Doug Kowalski
Tags: progress, robbery
Date: June 22, 1999
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Robbery in progress

[page 100, line 6] Well, I can’t let you ladies completely off the hook because in addition to stupidity though you have a way of causing men certain poor judgment, error in judgment. We have — you force us to make some emotional decisions, and we exhibit episodes of poor judgment. For e...