Slides showing winners of 2011 State Bar of Texas Appellate Section Twitter Brief Contest.

1. Twitter Brief CompetitionWinners

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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