Ed

(It’s going OK.)

I won’t tell anyone that your radio show is in the works to be on air an extra hour. Let me know when it’s official and I will make a post.

also, by the way … your website. something is different. did you get a new haircut?

Here is the Gonz original. Bow to his greatness.

I think I have to sue now.

No we’ll have to see how they handle the Class A’s, as that will be really telling on the future of poker in Dallas.

I was on the docket with about 50 other people, mostly with traffic tickets and code enforcement issues (one fairly well known semi-professional was called, but was absent). So after the 8:30 docket call and announcing my presence, the court adjourned until 9:40, so that the prosecutor could summon any necessary witnesses for all of the trials.

On my way back into the courthouse, I see a SWAT officer that was at JBs/Goodfellas the night of the raid, so it appears that the prosecution has indeed summoned its witnesses. Ooof. I go back into the courtroom, and the pool of alleged offenders gets smaller and smaller as the prosecutor dismisses cases or the people plea out for deferred disposition. There are about five people left, so I approach the prosecutor about whether he has any kind of deferred disposition to offer (once they call you to trial, the muni prosecutors won’t strike a deal). He says, “Sure, but at this point I don’t think you want it.” I say “Why?,” expecting him to say it’s because he’ll only offer the maximum penalty. But instead and much to my satisfaction, he says “Because the case is being dismissed.” Boo-yah! Wish I could say it was because of a rigorous cross-examination or some other Perry Mason-type performance, but I’ll take it any way I can get it.

On the way out, I asked whether the case was dismissed because of the type of citation (i.e., they didn’t want to prosecute these types of cases) or because he didn’t have any witnesses. He said it was because his witness that is normally there was sick. I don’t think I believe that, because the prosecutor knew nothing about my case. He asked how I got “caught” playing cards, and whether the police just busted down the door of my house in the middle of the card game. I said, “Yeah…something like that” and went on my merry way.