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13 Jan 2010, 10:55 pm
Civil Commitment: Pre-Emptive Strike against Future Acts by Convicted Sex Offenders By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In 1999 John Charles Volungus plead guilty in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky to three federal criminal sex offenses: possession of child pornography; receipt of child pornography through interstate commerce by means of a computer; and use of a facility of interstate commerce… [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 8:35 pm
Federal Judge Says Threat of Mandatory Sentences Used as “Chip” to Coerce Pleas By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair John L. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 9:41 am
Federal Initiatives Aimed at The Continuing Problems of Human Trafficking , Sex Slavery and Exploitation of Children By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair It was called "Operation Twisted Traveler"â€â [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 12:48 pm
Teachers' Expectation of Privacy By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Over the last two months sixteen Houston Independent School District employees, including 11 teachers, have been arrested on drug chargesâ€â [read post]
12 Aug 2021, 7:01 pm
Since the May 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, much of the attention on police reform has been directed at municipal police departments. [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 11:06 am
Inadmissible Evidence under 608(b) of the Texas Rules of Evidence May be Admissible under 613(b), Rule 412 or Confrontation Clause By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair A Harris County federal jury recently awarded $5 million to George Rodriquez for the 17 years he spent in the Texas prison system after being wrongfully convicted of the rape of a 14-year-old girl. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 4:33 pm
Power Corrupted and the Struggle for the Rule of Law By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos recently announced that local defense attorneys will be provided with copies "offense report(s)' prepared by police in criminal cases. [read post]
24 Apr 2010, 3:48 pm
Free Speech: Federal Law Criminalizing Depictions of Animal Cruelty Declared Unconstitutional By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair There are times when the U.S. [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 2:02 am
Courts Stretch Logic and Allow Government Land Grab in Child Porn Case By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Former President George W. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 4:05 pm
Supreme Court Holds Eighth Amendment Prohibits Mandatory Life without Parole Sentences in Juvenile Homicide Cases - By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Billy Sinclair - The Juveniles:Evan Miller and Kuntrell Jackson had a lot in common in their childhoods as Lyle Denniston described in a March 12, 2012 SC0TUSblog post: they lived in violent homes, suffered from low self-esteem, moral neglect and worse. [read post]
20 Sep 2008, 8:31 am
Fifth Circuit Orders Acquittal in 1964 Mississippi Murder Case, Cold Case Initiative Fails, Statute of Limitation Prevails By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 4:35 pm
The Coast Guard medically evacuated fishermen Alvin Floyd and John Hodges from a 23-foot commercial fishing vessel on the south end of St. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 8:21 am
Admissibility of Unreliable Identification Evidence By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair According to the New York-based Innocence Project, 75 percent of the nation’s 273 DNA exonerations involved eyewitness misidentification—and according to Harris County state senator Rodney Ellis, a longtime advocate of eyewitness identification reform, 86 percent of Texas’ 45 DNA exonerations (the most in the nation) involved eyewitness… [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 10:12 am
By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair During the initial minutes of Saturday, July 21, 2012, and only moments after the commencement of a special midnight showing of the Batman movie, Dark Night Rises, James Holmes, armed with an arsenal of weapons and dressed body armor, walked into the Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado, announced the Joker was present, and began indiscriminately shooting moviegoers. [read post]
31 Aug 2010, 12:55 am
Tunnel Vision By Investigators and Prosecutors Convicts, Imprisons the Innocent By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Last year we blogged about the tragic wrongful convictions of three innocent Texas inmates, Ricardo Rachel, Timothy Cole (here and here), and Ernest Sonnier. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 11:23 pm
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Some defense attorneys—and not without a legitimate basis—mistakenly believe that if a police officer detects the odor of marijuana inside a residence, the officer does not have probable cause to enter the residence and arrest the suspected owner of the drug without a warrant. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 4:35 pm
The Coast Guard medically evacuated fishermen Alvin Floyd and John Hodges from a 23-foot commercial fishing vessel on the south end of St. [read post]
23 Sep 2009, 7:53 am
Video Taped Consensual Sex with Minor Gets Federal Time By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The federal statute that governs the production of child pornography provides, in part, that "any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in . . . any sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct or for the purpose of transmitting a live visual… [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 4:24 pm
Client Falsely Accused of Child Sexual Abuse Wins Second Acquittal Against Determined Public Integrity Unit Prosecutor By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In early 2008 the Harris County District Attorney's Office launched an investigation into alleged sexual abuse of inmates housed at a county detention facility. [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 2:34 pm
Successful Batson Challenge Reveals Racial Discrimination in Harris County Jury Selection By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Assistant District Attorneys Mark Donnelly and Rifian Newaz are considered seasoned, professional prosecutors by their colleagues in the Harris County District Attorney's Office. [read post]
