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20 Jan 2010, 10:28 am
Court Describes Federal Sentencing Disparities as “A Picture of Injustice” By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In 1984 the United States Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act (“SRA”), and as part of the Act, Congress created the United States Sentencing Commission (“Commission”) to “establish sentencing policies and practices for the Federal criminal justice system. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 2:13 pm
Lack of Evidence and Reasonable Doubts Lead to Acquittal By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Now that Casey Anthony has been acquitted on the most serious charges resulting from the death of her young daughter, Caylee, and is scheduled for release next week, virtually every media pundit, along with their side-kick “expert” attorneys has had their say about the case. [read post]
24 Oct 2009, 11:50 am
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Friends and Family Need to Get Involved to Stop the Cycle of Abuse, Save a Life By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair This past August Christiana "Tina" Guerra Lewis became another statistic; a victim of a social epidemic far more deadly than the HINI virus. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 3:09 pm
Current Eyewitness Identification Procedure Reinforce False Memories and Lead to Wrongful Convictions By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair There have been 258 DNA exonerations in this country over the last two decades, according to the New York-based Innocence Project. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 12:08 pm
Congress Uses Fear of Child Pornography to Justify Orwellian Surveillance of Private Internet Usage By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Let us be clear at the outset. [read post]
25 May 2010, 1:07 am
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The United States Supreme Court finally addressed for the first time a long debated issue: whether juveniles can be sentenced to life without parole (“LWOP”), a sentence normally reserved for the very worst offenders. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 1:50 pm
Jones: Government’s Attachment of GPS to Personal Vehicle Constitutes a Search under 4th Amendment By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In a split but unanimous decision, the U.S. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 4:33 pm
Power Corrupted and the Struggle for the Rule of Law By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos recently announced that local defense attorneys will be provided with copies "offense report(s)' prepared by police in criminal cases. [read post]
24 Apr 2010, 3:48 pm
Free Speech: Federal Law Criminalizing Depictions of Animal Cruelty Declared Unconstitutional By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair There are times when the U.S. [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 2:02 am
Courts Stretch Logic and Allow Government Land Grab in Child Porn Case By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Former President George W. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 4:05 pm
Supreme Court Holds Eighth Amendment Prohibits Mandatory Life without Parole Sentences in Juvenile Homicide Cases - By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Billy Sinclair - The Juveniles:Evan Miller and Kuntrell Jackson had a lot in common in their childhoods as Lyle Denniston described in a March 12, 2012 SC0TUSblog post: they lived in violent homes, suffered from low self-esteem, moral neglect and worse. [read post]
20 Sep 2008, 8:31 am
Fifth Circuit Orders Acquittal in 1964 Mississippi Murder Case, Cold Case Initiative Fails, Statute of Limitation Prevails By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 4:35 pm
The Coast Guard medically evacuated fishermen Alvin Floyd and John Hodges from a 23-foot commercial fishing vessel on the south end of St. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 8:21 am
Admissibility of Unreliable Identification Evidence By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair According to the New York-based Innocence Project, 75 percent of the nation’s 273 DNA exonerations involved eyewitness misidentification—and according to Harris County state senator Rodney Ellis, a longtime advocate of eyewitness identification reform, 86 percent of Texas’ 45 DNA exonerations (the most in the nation) involved eyewitness… [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 10:12 am
By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair During the initial minutes of Saturday, July 21, 2012, and only moments after the commencement of a special midnight showing of the Batman movie, Dark Night Rises, James Holmes, armed with an arsenal of weapons and dressed body armor, walked into the Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado, announced the Joker was present, and began indiscriminately shooting moviegoers. [read post]
23 Sep 2009, 7:53 am
Video Taped Consensual Sex with Minor Gets Federal Time By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The federal statute that governs the production of child pornography provides, in part, that "any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in . . . any sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct or for the purpose of transmitting a live visual… [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 4:24 pm
Client Falsely Accused of Child Sexual Abuse Wins Second Acquittal Against Determined Public Integrity Unit Prosecutor By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In early 2008 the Harris County District Attorney's Office launched an investigation into alleged sexual abuse of inmates housed at a county detention facility. [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 2:34 pm
Successful Batson Challenge Reveals Racial Discrimination in Harris County Jury Selection By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Assistant District Attorneys Mark Donnelly and Rifian Newaz are considered seasoned, professional prosecutors by their colleagues in the Harris County District Attorney's Office. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 3:57 pm
Government Avoids 4th Amendment Requirement of Probable Cause By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In 1970 it was discovered by a gentleman named Christopher H. [read post]
31 Aug 2010, 12:55 am
Tunnel Vision By Investigators and Prosecutors Convicts, Imprisons the Innocent By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Last year we blogged about the tragic wrongful convictions of three innocent Texas inmates, Ricardo Rachel, Timothy Cole (here and here), and Ernest Sonnier. [read post]
