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29 Aug 2009, 4:26 pm
Harris County District Attorney's Office Administration Begins to Define Itself By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and paralegal Billy Sinclair The Houston Chronicle reported recently in yet another article that a number of veteran prosecutors have departed from the Harris County District Attorney's Office. [read post]
18 May 2010, 1:41 pm
Criminal Defense Lawyers Must Never Give up, Never Lose Faith That Justice Will Ultimately Prevail By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair There have been at least 254 DNA exonerations in this country, according to the Innocence Project of New York. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 4:22 pm
Federal Crack Sentence Reductions: Defendants Sentenced Pursuant to 11(c)(1)(C) Agreements Eligible for 3582(c)(2) Relief By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In 2007 the U.S. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 3:03 am
Voir Dire, Inability to Consider Full Range of Punishment: Proper Objection and Practice to Preserve Error for Appeal By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Sex offenses involving children are beyond a doubt the most difficult to defend, particularly when the allegations appear compelling and the witnesses are believable (here, here, and here). [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 11:07 am
46,000 Innocent Lives Destroyed by False Allegations, Wrongful Convictions By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Seton Hall University School of Law Professor D. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 10:18 am
Court Recommends New Trial for Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Capital Murder After Finding State’s Expert Testimony Incompetent By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair We have blogged rather extensively about the “convict at any costs” agenda which has ruled the Harris County District Attorney’s Office for the past three decades. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 9:07 am
Tragedy Stirs debate on Stand Your Ground Laws and Racial Stereotypes By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In February, 2012, we posted a piece about Texas’ version of the “stand your ground” law which was passed by the Legislature in 2007. [read post]
31 May 2011, 12:23 pm
Right to Appointed Counsel Not Absolute: Courts Only Required to Appoint Counsel if Reasonable Grounds Exist for DNA Testing By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the September 5, 1998 robbery/murder of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville. [read post]
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]
25 Aug 2010, 12:59 am
18 USC 1346, Honest Services Prosecutions Require Bribes or Kickbacks By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The Enron Corporation was founded in 1985. [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]
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]
