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college to their clients’ benefit. They have recently receivedthree “not guilties” (DWI, failure to identify/fugitivefrom justice, and assault/family violence) and a hungjury (DWI). Keep up the great work, guys!Send your letters, pictures, gripes, bonehead gaffes, or whathave-youto champton@tcdla.com or chattersley@tcdla.com.KudosJerry BuchmeyerRichard A. Anderson at the Advanced Criminal LawSeminar in Dallas this past August was presented aLifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributionsto Excellence and Professionalism by the State Barof Texas. Congratulations, Richard! No one deserves itmore than you.Congratulations to Russ Hunt Sr. of Waco, who got deathwaived in a case involving a client who was alreadyserving a prison sentence for murder. Russ showed howthe state had not been properly medicating the clientfor a psychotic condition when the second murder occurred.Good work, Russ!Rick Wardroup and Mark Snodgrass pled Alonzo Lewisto life without parole in this Lubbock County case.Mr. Lewis was charged with killing a retired Air Forcecolonel in the gentleman’s own home. The decedent hadsimply offered Mr. Lewis a drink of water when he approachedhis house. Additionally, Jack Stoffregen and hiscrew from the West Texas Public Defender’s office gotan agreed not guilty by reason of insanity in Crane fortheir client, Gilly Thurby, who was accused of a doublehomicide. Good work, guys! Keep it up. The numbersare good for 2009 so far. There have been ten deathsentences this year with only five of those being whatare considered “new” sentences. The remaining wereretrials.Texas Criminal Trial College graduates Jeremy Deshonghand DeAndre Gibbs are using the skills learned at theThe Honorable Jerry Buchmeyer, retiredfederal district judge of Dallas, died onMonday, September 21, 2009. Appointedto the federal bench in 1979 by PresidentJimmy Carter, Buchmeyer was chief judgeof the Northern District of Texas from 1995to 2001. He assumed senior status in 2003and stepped down to inactive status in2008. Among his other accomplishments,Judge Buchmeyer was well-known andadmired by Texas lawyers for his humorcolumn, “et cetera,” published monthly inthe Texas Bar Journal.18 VOICE FOR THE DEFENSE October 2009