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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]
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]
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]
31 Aug 2012, 12:40 pm
Computer Program, Source Code, Does not Constitute “Goods” that can be Stolen for Purposes of National Stolen Property Act By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Most legal researchers will tell you that the best starting point for legal research is the statute in question. [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]
8 Mar 2012, 6:08 am
New Hampshire: Courts not Required to Determine Reliability of Eye Witness Identifications Unless Improper Police Conduct By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In back-to-back days in January, the 10th and 11th, the U.S. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 12:28 am
Arrest of “Jihad Jane” Adds Fuel to Fight Against Racial Profiling By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Leonard Pitts is an excellent columnist. [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 3:17 pm
Youthful Pirate Faces Life in Federal Prison if Convicted on Piracy Charges By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, the lone survivor of the four Somali pirates who attacked the United States flagged-ship Maersk Alabama on April 8, 2009, was recently indicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on five criminal counts, including piracy under Section 1651 of the Title 18 of the United… [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]
25 Jul 2009, 2:11 pm
Texas Legislature Joins the Hunt By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair. [read post]
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]
29 Sep 2010, 11:27 pm
86 Year Federal Sentence Handed to the Gray Lady of Bagram Greater Than Necessary, Cruel and Unusual By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Billy Sinclair Depending on who you believe, Dr. [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]
23 Sep 2011, 2:44 pm
Difficulty Establishing Restitution Child Pornography Cases By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In two previous posts (here and here), we discussed the increasing trend of victims of child pornography seeking restitution damages under 18 U.S.C. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 10:44 am
Misdemeanor Charges for Beating of Handcuffed 15-Year Old Lead to Community Outrage By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Four Houston police officers were indicted on June 23, 2010 on misdemeanor charges of “official oppression” in connection with the beating of a handcuffed 15-year-old black burglary suspect—an incident “caught on tape” by a private business surveillance camera. [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]
31 Mar 2010, 9:46 pm
Shatzer: Why Criminal Suspects Should Never Talk to the Police Without an Attorney By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In December 2008 police officer Timothy Abernethy was chasing a suspect through a Houston apartment complex when the suspect, M. [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]
12 Jun 2011, 9:15 am
Delay in Testing Delays Justice for Victims and Wrongly Accused By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In a June 4, 2011 article titled “Justice Delayed in Rape Cases,” Houston Chronicle staff writer Anita Hassan reported that five years ago the Houston Police Department crime lab had more than 4,000 “rape kits” sitting untested in its “property room freezer. [read post]
