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16 Oct 2009, 8:18 pm
Increased Use of Stop and Frisk Leads to Increased Constitutional Abuses, Legitimizes Racial Profiling By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Law enforcement officials claim "stop and frisk" is one of their most effective crime prevention practices. [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 12:48 pm
ABA Files Amicus Demanding Disclosure of Exculpatory Evidence Regardless of Materiality, Boarder than Brady By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The Orleans Parish and Williamson County district attorney offices have something in common: both have a disturbing history of withholding exculpatory information that resulted in innocent men being sent to prison (or death row) for long periods of time (here, here and here). [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 2:56 pm
Fabricating Fake DNA, Defending the Accused in the New World By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Billy Sinclair, Paralegal We have blogged on several occasions in the recent past about the fallibility of forensic evidence, sharing the opinion of others that more often than not it's "junk science. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 11:34 pm
Legislature Willing to Lessen Constitutional Protections to Appease Mothers Against Drunk Driving By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair For the past fifteen years the State of Texas either led the nation or ranked in the top five states in DWI fatalities. [read post]
7 Aug 2010, 9:37 am
Deliberately Avoiding the Truth to Deny Criminal Knowledge By Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair What is an “ostrich instruction? [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 4:20 am
KHOU News yesterday reported that Judge John Clinton offered defendants in his court an option to community service. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 8:19 am
Politics and Profit Motive Lead to Unreasonable Conditions of Bond in First Time DWI Cases By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The Texas Legislature in 1999 gave courts the general authority to impose “reasonable conditions” of pre-trial release. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 10:03 am
Rule 606(b) of the Texas Rules of Evidence; Conducting Inquiry into Juror Misconduct By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Johnny Ray Ocon was put on trial in Ector County, Texas for the crime of aggravated sexual assault of a child. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 5:44 pm
Clergy Privilege Protects Communications Made In Confidence, Waived if Called as Character Witness By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In a previous post, we outlined the case of Ernest “Randy” Comeaux, an inmate serving six life sentences for a series of rapes from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 1:09 am
Unindicted Co-Conspirator in Holy Land Appeals Case in Fight to Clear Name By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, formerly the nation’s largest Islamic charity organization based in Dallas, Texas, and seven of its leaders were indicted in 2007 with providing “material support” to a terrorist organization, primarily to Hamas. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 2:49 pm
Supreme Court Solidifies Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel during Plea Bargaining By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair There are two primary movers in our criminal justice system: criminal prosecution and criminal defense. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 2:31 pm
Confronting Witnesses with Prior False Allegations to Support Theory of Bias, Motive or Interest By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair One of the most devastating crimes that can happen to anyone is to be falsely accused of having sexually assaulted a child. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 2:04 pm
Protecting Attorney Client Relationship, Privileged Information from Government Subpoena By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The attorney work-product and the attorney-client privilege are often confused with each other. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 6:25 am
The case is from the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, and is styled, John Hancock Life Insurance Company v. [read post]
7 Feb 2009, 12:25 pm
Obscene Drawings, Cartoons, Sculpture, Paintings that Depict Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct Not Protected Free Speech By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair On March 30, 2004, Dwight Whorley visited a public resource room maintained by the Virginia Employment Commission in Richmond. [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 2:00 pm
Murray, of Stevenson & Murray in Houston; and Kristal C. [read post]
25 Jan 2009, 11:07 am
Bolstering, Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair, In 1983, Roland Summit in a published paper coined the phrase "Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome" (CSAAS). [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 3:59 pm
High Court Misses Opportunity to Discuss Ethical Obligations of Prosecutors By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair For reasons we discussed in a previous post, the U.S. [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 12:59 pm
Core of Defense of Third Person Is What the Actor Reasonably Believes Concerning the Situation of the Third Person By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair It was a hectic, confusing scene in Dallas on December 2, 2007. [read post]
5 Dec 2010, 12:42 pm
Siddiqui: Victory in Courtroom is Loss on Worldwide Public Stage By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair This website has maintained an ongoing interest in the bizarre case of Dr. [read post]
