Volume 42 of the Capital University Law School Review
Patrick Metze
Professor of Police force, 2008
Email: patrick.metze@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-2395
Professor Metze initially worked for a existent estate developer and investor in Houston, Texas. In January 1976, he established a solo general practice of police in Levelland, Texas, canton seat of Hockley County, thirty miles Due west of Lubbock, Texas. Prior to 1986 and the collapse of the oil industry in West Texas, his general practice included periodic cyberbanking, collections, corporate, employee relations, worker's compensation, personal injury, oil and gas leases and contracts, real estate, criminal and family police force. Since that time, his practice emphasized more criminal and family police, with less focus on commercial, industrial, and labor related problems. In 2000, he moved his principal role to Lubbock and maintained a customer base and close ties to Hockley and Cochran Canton. He joined the Academy start an offshoot professor instruction the criminal defence force clinic at the Texas Tech University School of Constabulary in 2007 and in May 2008, he gave up his individual practice and joined the Tech police faculty at the rank of Acquaintance Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense Clinics. In the Spring semester of 2010 he created the Uppercase Punishment Clinic placing students in the Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases. Fall of 2010 saw the cosmos of the Caprock Regional Public Defender Office and Clinic, the first full-fourth dimension public defender office in the nation operated from within a constabulary school by pupil attorneys and total-fourth dimension chaser supervisors and instructors. He was promoted to Professor of Constabulary, with tenure, in September 2012. During the Autumn of 2016 he established the Texas Tech School of Law Innocence Clinic in association with the Innocence Project of Texas equally the school's first in-firm post-conviction student run clinic.
While in private practice Professor Metze represented clients at all levels inside the State, including Municipal, Justice, County, District (both State and Federal), Court of Appeals, and Court of Criminal Appeals, with travel throughout all regions of the State. He was solicited and appointed by the Court of Criminal Appeals to stand for two individuals on death row on their then-pending State Writs of Habeas Corpus, and remained qualified to accept Art. 11.071 C.C.P., appointments until he withdrew from appointment consideration upon entering the Academy. He was 1 of only fourteen attorneys qualified for engagement every bit first chair in Capital letter Murder cases in the 45 counties of the 9th Authoritative Judicial Region. In private practice, he was the but attorney in Lubbock who was qualified and solicited appointments to indigent clients for misdemeanors, juveniles, felonies, capital punishment cases, and appeals in all courts. He has always been defended to the representation of the poor and as such, maintains membership in The Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas.
Teaching
- B.A., Texas Tech Academy, 1970
- J.D., University of Houston, 1973
Courses
- Texas Juvenile Law
- Seminar on Capital punishment
Selected Publications, Presentations, and Professional Memberships
Publications
- D issecting the ABA Texas Capital Punishment Assessment Report of 2013: Decease and Texas, a Surprising Improvement, forthcoming in the Akron Law Review (December 2017).
- Zilch Changes, It All Remains the Same--Modern Capital punishment (Human being Sacrifice by a Dissimilar Name), Invited article for the Texas Tech University School of Law 8th Annual Criminal Law Symposium (April 4, 2014), Texas Tech Law Review, Volume 47, Number 1, p. 179 (Autumn 2014).
- Plugging the School-to-Prison Pipeline by Improving Behavior and Protecting Core Judicial Functions: A Ramble Crisis Looms, St. Mary'southward Law Periodical, Volume 45, Number 1, p. 37 (Fall 2013).
- Feed Me Seymour: The Never-Catastrophe Hunger of the Criminal Process for Procedural Rights and Removing Children from Its Shop of Horrors, Invited article for the Texas Tech Academy School of Law viithursday Annual Criminal Law Symposium (April 5, 2013), Texas Tech Law Review, Volume 46, Number one, p. 187 (Fall 2013).
- Speaking Truth to Power: The Obligation of the Courts to Enforce the Right to Counsel at Trial, Invited commodity for the Texas Tech University School of Law 6thursday Annual Criminal Police force Symposium (March 29, 2012), Texas Tech Law Review, Book 45, Number 1, p. 163 (Fall 2012).
- Troy Davis, Lawrence Brewer & Timothy McVeigh Should Withal Be Alive: Certainty, Innocence and the High Cost of Death and Immorality. Invited essay. Charleston Police Review, Volume 6 Number 2, p. 333 (Wintertime 2012).
- Plugging the School to Prison Pipeline by Addressing Cultural Racism in Public Didactics Discipline, Academy of California-Davis, Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy, Volume 16 Issue ane, p. 203 (Wintertime 2012).
- Death and Texas: The Unevolved Model of Decency; Nebraska Police force Review, Volume xc Number 1, p. 240 (2011).
Presentations
- January 5, 2018, invited to speak at the 37th Annual Prairie Dog Lawyers Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, Lubbock, Texas, on the topic of "Enhancements."
- August 3, 2017, invited to give the juvenile law instance update at the annual Juvenile Law Seminar, Lubbock, Texas, hosted past the Hon. Melissa McNamara, Magistrate; Presented by the South Plains Alternative Dispute Resolution System and the Lubbock Board of Judges.
- April 14, 2017, gave the criminal constabulary practitioner's perspective at a seminar entitled Crimmigration: The Overlap of Criminal Police force and Clearing Law, presented by the Texas Tech Clearing Police Association, Criminal Law Association, Hispanic Constabulary Students Association and Blackness Law Students Association.
- March 31, 2017, invited moderator at the Texas Tech University School of Law 11th Annual Criminal Police Symposium on the topic: Entering the Second Fifty Years of Miranda, Panel 3, How is (should) the 6th Amendment Right to Counsel Be Different from the 5th Amendment Right to Counsel?
- Dec 2016, small group leader for the Terry MacCarthy Cross Exam and Impeachment Seminar at the Eye for American and International Law, Plano, Texas.
- January 29, 2016, invited to speak to the University Faculty Research Lodge on the work of the members of The Center for Social Change, an inaugural member of Texas Tech Academy'south Transdisciplinary Academy.
- Nov 18, 2015, lectured at the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Capital Litigation and Mental Health Seminar, Due south Padre Isle, Texas, on the topic of "Artistic Motions and the Constitutional Law Behind Them."
- April iv, 2014, invited panelist at the Texas Tech University School of Law 8th Annual Criminal Law Symposium on the topic: Ignoring the possibility of convicting the innocent and morality issues, is uppercase punishment a proficient idea or bad idea, and if the erstwhile, how should it be administered?
- Feb 5, 2014, spoke at the V.G. Young Institute of Canton Regime School for Canton Commissioners Courts, College Station, Texas, sponsored by Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service and the Texas A&M University Organization, in cooperation with the County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas and the Texas Clan of Counties, on the topic: Speaking Truth to Power: The Obligation of the Courts to Enforce the Right to Counsel at Trial.
- January 10, 2014, lectured at the 33nd Annual Prairie Dog Lawyers Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, Lubbock, Texas, on Ideals: What is Justice?
- May 27, 2013, presented paper Speaking Truth to Power: The Obligation of the Courts to Enforce the Correct to Counsel at Trial, at the annual meeting of The Law and Society Association in Boston, Massachusetts, equally a presenter for a console entitled Customs Justice in the Criminal Courts.
- April 5, 2013, invited panelist at the Texas Tech Academy Schoolhouse of Constabulary 7th Almanac Criminal Law Symposium on the topic: Practice (should) juveniles have more, less, the aforementioned, or unlike procedural rights than are accorded to adults?
- November two, 2012, presented annual update to the Texas Tech University Transdisciplinary Research Academy for the Center for Social Touch, entitled Bringing Change to Capital Defence force, Attorneys, Direction Theorists, & Writers Collaborating in Texas.
- July 15, 2012, moderated a New Scholar Workshop, Southeastern Association of Police force Schools annual meeting, Amelia Island, Florida.
- June 7, 2012, noon luncheon speaker for the 2012 Uppercase Update Seminar, as part of the 25th Annual Rusty Duncan Avant-garde Criminal Law Class, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Middle, San Antonio, Texas, presented by the Texas Criminal Defense force Lawyers Association.
- October xx, 2011, video-panelist for campus-broad Social Justice dialogue, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, discussing the Troy Davis execution and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Professional Memberships
- Association of American Law Schools
- Clinical Legal Teaching Association
- American Society of Legal Writers
- American Bar Clan
- Hockley-Cochran County Bar Association
- Lubbock Area Bar Clan (Former Board fellow member and Secretary)
- Lubbock Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Former President and Board fellow member)
- Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (Former Board member and committee chair)
- The Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas
- The College of the State Bar of Texas
- State Bar of Texas (April 29, 1974)
- Admitted to United States Commune Court, Northern District of Texas (1993)
- Texas Tech University Faculty Senate (2014-2017)
- Texas Tech University Ethics Advisory Committee
- Rhodes, Marshall and Truman Scholarship selection committees
- Former member of the Criminal Justice Council of the State Bar of Texas
- Old Board Fellow member of the Criminal Law Department of the State Bar of Texas
- Life Fellow, The Texas Bar Foundation
- Former member of the State Bar standing committee on Legal Services to the Poor in Civil Matters.
- Erstwhile member of the Advisory Committee to the Lubbock Special Needs Defenders Part
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