Summer’s here which means driving with the top down, going to the lake and playing as much golf as possible.  Also, the summer blockbusters are going to be released.  Moviegoers will revisit Sex in the City, Batman, Harold and Kumar, Indiana Jones, Narnia and Speed Racer. 

I’ve seen a couple of summer movies already and both, Son of Rambow and Iron Man appealed to me.  I really enjoyed watching Rambow.  I rank it with Little Miss Sunshine as a pleasant surprise exceeding my expectations. 

My 16 year old son is anxiously awaiting The Dark Knight to see how the Joker is portrayed and to see how Harvey Dent is portrayed.  Harvey Dent, being the District Attorney of Gotham City will make this reviewable as a legal movie.  The creepy Katie Holmes is replaced by the uberlicious Maggie Gyllenhahl. 

The ultimate chick flick, Sex and the City will be premiering in a couple of weeks and women everywhere will be dragging their boyfriends and husbands to the theaters.  The Alamo Drafthouse will be airing the movie at times where no men are allowed.  And offering a souvenir glass if you have a Cosmo during the movie.  This is the downtown location.    

No matter what movie I see, it’s always better at the Drafthouse.  Order your tickets online, get there one hour early, enjoy the entertainment while you wait, eat and drink for a great movie experience.  You can go online here:   http://www.originalalamo.com/.  Whenever I see a movie there, I wonder why I would go anywhere else.

One of my law partners is always telling me it’s always about movies with me.  We’ll be talking about a case or a judge or a trial and I inevitably quote a movie.  I have even used movies as a theme for trial.  (“You called down the thunder and now you’ve got it.” – Tombstone).   Part of our practice involves Child Protective Services litigation.  I primarily represent parents and one major element of these cases is the fact that there are serious accusations involved.  I have represented clients accused of shaking a baby, sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, domestic violence and child abuse.  It falls on me, as their lawyer to defend them.  People ask me in various ways, how I can do that.

Other than the obvious reaction that I believe in the legal system and constitutions of the United States of America and the State of Texas and the proposition that they are only accusations until proven in court, I can sum up my personal philosophy can be summed up in two movies.  First, there is A Few Good Men.  There’s a scene where Jack Ross (Kevin Bacon) is taking crap for representing his client by Caffey, the Tom Cruise character.  Ross responds by telling him that he is the lawyer, not the client.  His opinion on the actions does not matter.  He represents his client “without passion and without prejudice and my client has a case.”

The other movie involved a man who had been arrested for a trumped up charge of sedition. (speaking against the government)  The authorities used a paid informant and severely mistreated the man while he was in custody.  He was tried without a lawyer, found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed violently.  He was, like the words of my friends, “obviously guilty.”  As in, “how can you represent someone who is obviously guilty.”  The name of the movie:  The Passion of the Christ.  My answer to their question: I tell them, “I would have represented Him.”

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