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Discover the top entries from the recent Twitter Brief Competition that showcased exceptional legal haikus and creative briefs. Featured here are honorable mentions highlighting clever arguments and insightful commentary from notable legal professionals across Texas and beyond. Each entry sheds light on complex legal issues while demonstrating brevity and wit, aimed at informing and entertaining the legal community. From creative contention to earnest motions, these submissions represent the best of legal creativity and advocacy.
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HONORABLE MENTIONS: BEST HAIKU TWITTER BRIEFS Appellee tried this Once before, and did not win: Res judicata. The day after the Second anniversary Was a day too late. John Tollefson, Tollefson, Bradley, Ball & Mitchell, Dallas David Wells, Law Offices of David C. Wells, Austin
HONORABLE MENTIONS: BEST TWITTER BRIEF NO ONE CAN ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND D guilty 4d187. Claims 1)IE & 2)IAC. SoRs=HCJC/Cada & Strickland. 1) Vid+DNA+3 I-Ws = suff.; 2)w/5 priors, 75 2do<lif. ØIAC/ØIE. G.O. Aff! Andy Porter, Assistant DA, Tarrant County
HONORABLE MENTIONS: MOST DIRECT I’m right. They’re wrong. All authority supports my case. Look it up. Tanya Garrison, Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, P.C., Houston
HONORABLE MENTIONS: BEST OUT-OF-STATE ENTRY 3 dead. Jury convicted. 1 issue. Suff evid: def on vidtape hlding gun & stnding ovr vics; pwdr on hand; DNA on gun; confession. Must affirm. Christopher Wren, Assistant AG, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI
HONORABLE MENTIONS: MOTION MOST LIKELY TO INSPIRE SYMPATHY Small firm w/heavy load. Been on needed vacation. Need more time & more $. Pls grant xtension 4 brief, or might have 2 w/draw. /s/ [efiled] Todd Smith, Smith Law Group, Austin
SECOND RUNNER-UP @COA. P 1 b/c TC let expert testify. IDKY. No degree. No tests. No peers. No clue. IOW unreliable guess by unqualified dolt. Pls render. D. Karen Precella, Haynes and Boone LLP, Fort Worth
FIRST RUNNER-UP SCoTex: Jury charge WAY too broad. Couldn't tell if tort finding was based on bad stuff A, B or C. Granulation Nation! Remand please. Heidi Bloch, Brown McCarroll, LLP, Austin
GRAND PRIZE Appeal can’t fix judge’s 1) jail'g my lawyer 4 spurning her love & 2) den'g my recusal motion. Mdamus needed b4 trial 2morrow. R'fully, ProSe Justice Mary Murphy, Fifth District Court of Appeals, Dallas