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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]
28 May 2011, 10:29 am
Transgendered Issues Confound Courts and Prison Officials By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The case of Justin Purdue has captured the interest and emotions of residents of Wharton County, as well as Harris County, for much of the past year. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 12:36 pm
The Tragic Case of the “The Gray Lady of Bagram” By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The U.S. [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]
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]
4 Nov 2008, 11:38 pm
Multiple Counts, Lesser-Included Offenses and Double Jeopardy By Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair One of the quiet abuses in the nation's criminal justice system is prosecutors overcharging criminal defendants. [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]
25 Jul 2009, 2:11 pm
Texas Legislature Joins the Hunt By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair. [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]
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]
16 Apr 2010, 10:53 am
State; Court Reverses Conviction Obtained After Finding Investigator Used False Fingerprint Lab Report to Obtain Confession By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair It was New Year’s Day, 2006. [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]
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]
18 Oct 2008, 9:05 pm
Hearsay Statements of Child Abuse Victims and Delayed Outcry By Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair "Hearsay" is a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at a trial or hearing, offered into evidence to prove the truth of some matter being asserted. [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]
16 Oct 2008, 8:11 am
The Only Defense In Sexual Assault Cases Not Subject To Rebuttal Evidence, Keeping Extraneous Crimes, Wrongs, and Acts Out By Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Writing in her book "The Cross-Examination of a Young Child in a Sexual Assault Case: Voice for the Defense" (Oct. 1999), Annabelle Hall said that jurors following a sexual assault trial involving a child raise the following questions: * Why would a child lie about sexual abuse? … [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 11:04 am
Centering Anishinaabeg StudiesUnderstanding the World through Stories Edited by Jill Doerfler Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. [read post]
21 Jan 2024, 3:48 am
The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to appeal in Sinclair v Venezia Turismo. [read post]
20 Jul 2020, 8:52 am
We recently covered Sinclair v. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 2:12 pm
Wiretaps and Secret Video Taping by Spouses in the Home Can Lead to Criminal and Civil Exposure By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Marriage may well begin in bliss but during divorce often ends in mutually destructive acrimony between the spouses. [read post]
