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11 Mar 2011, 3:27 pm
Drug Mules/Smugglers Beware: Permanent Border Patrol Checkpoints in Texas Seize Tons of Drugs, Marijuana, Illustrate Inhumanity of Drug Laws By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair There are many problems with mandatory minimum sentencing as we have discussed in previous blogs, but the following is just one real life example. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 2:42 pm
Age is Proper Factor in Miranda Custody Analysis By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair One thing you can depend upon, any time the U.S. [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 11:53 pm
False Allegations of Rape, Convictions Based Exclusively on Uncorroborated Testimony By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Senior Paralegal Billy Sinclair 18 years ago Robert McClendon, then 34 years of age, was convicted and sentenced to 15 years to life in Franklin County, Ohio for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 4:18 pm
Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Former Alaska lawmaker, Vic Kohring, has entered a guilty plea admitting he accepted bribes from an “oil man” for his help in keeping taxes low on the Alaskan oil industry. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 2:32 pm
Texas law Allows Removal/Avoidance of Sex Registration for Youthful, Non-Violent Consent Based Sex By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Former President George W. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 1:46 am
Lawyer Ineffective for Failure to Investigate, Request Medical Records Indicating Possible Insanity; (Be careful what you ask for…) By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Spencer Ojeifo Imoudu was not a normal individual. [read post]
7 Sep 2009, 4:31 pm
Religious and Racial Profiling Justified in McCarthy Era Inspired Investigations and Tactics By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City, and the reaction to those terrorist attacks by President George Bush's administration, left this nation with a tragic and despicable legacy that has tarnished our great Country's reputation and image worldwide. [read post]
22 May 2012, 2:30 pm
Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Barry Scheck is co-director of the New York-based Innocence Project—“a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent injustice. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 4:18 am
Harris County Goose-Stepping to the Beat of a MADD Drum By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Law enforcement authorities in Texas, and at least six other states, this past New Year weekend engaged in an aggressive anti-DWI campaign. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 9:43 am
Supreme Court Discusses "Pre-Existing Right" to Keep and Bear Arms By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair There have been several recent national news reports concerning the dramatic increase in the sale of firearms, particularly in Texas, since the election of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 7:41 pm
Prosecutors Fail to Disclose Favorable Evidence that Contradicted Expert’s Testimony By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair We have repeatedly made clear our disdain for prosecutorial misconduct (here). [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 10:36 am
Flawed Forensics in Arson Cases: One Executed, One on Death Row, Four in Prison By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The question hangs like ugly morning moss from a large swamp oak tree: Did the State of Texas execute an innocent man when it put Cameron Todd Willingham to death on February 17, 2004? [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 4:04 pm
Supreme Court Blocks Ability for Wrongfully Convicted to Prove Innocence By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair George Rodriquez spent 17 years in the Texas prison system for a crime he did not commit. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 2:38 am
Executing the Insane: Past Witch Hunt; Current Shame By Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Just after noon on December 9, 2008 a corrections officer assigned to Texas' death row was making a normal security round in Building 10 when he observed what appeared to be blood on the face of condemned inmate Andre Thomas. [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 10:04 am
Recent Arrest, Detention and Charging of Attempted Airplane Bomber Illustrate Fed’s Ability to Handle Terror Suspects in Civilian Courts By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Two recent decisions by President Obama’s administration has drawn intense criticism designed to manipulate the natural fear Americans have of terrorism since 9/11: the decision to try the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), and his co-conspirators, in a New… [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 10:00 am
Federally Funded Task Forces Make Online Crimes Against Children Top Priority By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair There has been a recent rash of media reports about local residents getting arrested or sentenced for possession of child pornography. [read post]
19 Dec 2009, 6:09 am
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair We have written on numerous occasions about the dangers of “extraneous offense evidence” when allowed into evidence in a criminal trial. [read post]
9 Jan 2010, 12:06 am
Fear Mongers Continue Calls for Military Tribunals to Avoid Burdens of Complying with Constitution and Rule of Law By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The day after we posted our blog “Argument Against Gitmo Closure Defeated By Act of Terrorism” (Dec. 28, 2009), in which we pointed out that Republican opponents of the Obama administration’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay, had not suggested that Christmas Day attempted airline… [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 1:24 pm
Right-Wing Patriot Groups, White Supremest, Neo-Nazis Pose Growing Threat By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The mainstream media over the past two weeks has been saturated with an endless stream of stories about Najibullah Zazi, a suspected Afganhani terrorist reportedly involved in a plot of bomb New York City's mass transit system; Michael Fenton, an American converted to Islam who allegedly planted and attempted to trigger a fake vehicle bomb… [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 6:12 pm
Government Finally Reaches the Holy Land in Complex Case of Providing Financial Support to Terrorist By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair America has a disposition toward war. [read post]
