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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
6 Jul 2010, 3:21 pm
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Questions about Defendant’s Post Arrest Silence Opens Door to Cross Examination By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Criminal defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel in criminal prosecutions against them. [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]
25 Apr 2012, 2:33 pm
Testifying Witness and Prosecutor Absolutely Immune from Civil Rights Claims stemming from False Testimony before Grand Jury By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Just when you think you’ve heard the worst about rogue prosecutors (here and here), some nastier, seedier episode comes along to remind you back into the reality that some prosecutors are so rogue that it defies adequate definition—even in the South where “justice” has… [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]
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]
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]
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]
20 Apr 2012, 7:05 am
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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]
25 Jul 2009, 2:11 pm
Texas Legislature Joins the Hunt By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 5:19 pm
Ben Crump, the Floyd family’s lawyer, accused the Columbus police in a tweet of killing “an unarmed 15yo Black girl. [read post]
28 Dec 2022, 5:39 am
Abstract below: In response to the racial reckoning sparked by the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other unarmed Black men and women during the summer of 2020, many corporations publicly expressed their commitment to not only grapple with racial inequities in the economic sphere, but also increase racial diversity on their board, with particular emphasis on Black directors.1Most notably, on September 9, 2020, The Board Challenge (founded by business leaders with at least… [read post]
