Anecdotes – Page 8 – David Scoggins

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Charles Tessmer
Tags: dwI
Date: June 22, 1999
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Ken Blassingame and the jail matron

[page 31, line 19] Ken Blassingame, yes. Ken I ran into many — very early in my life when he was a prosecutor trying DWI cases. And we had this case that was going pretty well for the State. I put this old woman on that testified the defendant was not drunk. She had observed…...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Charles Tessmer
Date: June 22, 1999
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Bob Wade

[page 27, line 15] JUDGE VANCE: Let me ask Charles Tessmer to come up. They’ve been talking about you, Charlie. While he’s coming up, I tried several cases against him. I tried a murder case where a deputy constable’s son killed his wife, and I had found a witness to that that knew...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Charles Caperton
Tags: dismissal, henry
Date: June 22, 1999
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Henry Wade and dismissal

[page 125, line 18] And that’s another thing. When I left the D.A.’s office, I think out of 403 trials or something, I lost four — you know, we lost four. And I thought I may have been one of the greatest lawyers that every lived until my first year and a half out in…...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Charles Caperton
Tags: howard, rapist
Date: June 22, 1999
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Tom Howard and 105 lb. rapist

[page 123, line 10] JUDGE VANCE: Charles Caperton. MR. CAPERTON: Okay, folks, I want some answers to these questions. We got a — we got a list, the speakers did, and one of them says, “What’s your best advice to young prosecutors?” And I wrote back. I sent mine in typed. I do...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Mike McCollum
Tags: charles, courtroom, etiquette, tessmer
Date: June 22, 1999
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Charles Tessmer and courtroom etiquette

[page 23, line 7] The other thing — I’ll tell a story on Charlie Tessmer. When I first came to the D.A.’s office, I was hired by Colonel Westmoreland up in the appellate section, and I’m not one of these individuals that has a real long patience. I’ve got the — yo...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Bill Glaspy
Tags: insane, woman
Date: June 22, 1999
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Deed to farm from insane woman

[page 123, line 1] I don’t remember whether it was Droby and Martin — I think it was, or it might have been Droby and Stinson drove out to West Texas. They get a lady not guilty because of insanity, both at the time of the shooting and at the time of the trial. Sometime…...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: Mike McCollum
Tags: bail bond, courthouse, law, pretrial, shanghai
Date: June 22, 1999
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Judge Ellis has seen everything (Shanghai)

[page 17, line 6] JUDGE VANCE: Mike McCollum. JUDGE McCOLLUM: Thank you, Judge, I’m way too young to be up here. I can’t believe it. I’ts terrible. I’ve got a couple of things. I’m sitting down there right next to Charlie Tessmer, and of course two chairs over is the ju...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: John Tolle
Tags: abuse, deputy, hughes, judge, sarah, sheriff
Date: June 22, 1999
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Judge Sarah Hughes and deputy sheriff abuse case

[page 15, line 10] One of the last stories about her (Judge Sarah Hughes) concerns a case I tried shortly before I went to the Magistrate’s office — about — well, no. It was earlier than that. Probably ’73 or ’74 we had a rather involved civil rights case involving a wo...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: John Tolle
Tags: encounter, first, hughes, judge, mason, sarah
Date: June 22, 1999
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Ed Mason’s first encounter with Judge Sarah Hughes

[page 13, line 6] And the other Sarah Hughes story will concern Ed Mason. When we were in the D.A.’s office together we had a case up there. We — it fell out luck to try civil rights cases against the sheriff, and some of our sheriffs had a lot more than others. And some…...

June 22

Posted By: lawoffice
Posted In: John Tolle
Tags: carpet, hughes, judge, sarah
Date: June 22, 1999
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Judge Sarah Hughes and carpet

[page 10, line 17] I’d kind of like to defer some of this so that — let’s think of some more here I can do. FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER: John? MAGISTRATE TOLLE: Yes. FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER: Can you tell the carpet story, Sarah Hughes and the carpet story? MAGISTRATE TOLLE: Oh, that̵...