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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION</title>
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		<title>BAD MOON ON THE RISE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/14/bad-moon-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda Seven]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep America Safe: Right Wing Fanatics Attack Lawyers, Constitution, and Fundamental Right to Legal Representation

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Every major movement or cause throughout this nation’s history which sought constitutional protections for those the government had denied, from racial minorities ostracized by segregationists laws to those persecuted for their religious beliefs, was led by lawyers. Our fundamental notions of social justice, which are grounded in this nation’s Bill of Rights and in Federal and state constitutions form the original colonies, exist because of the courage of lawyers to form, frame and preserve those notions. Lawyers have always borne the brunt of criticism from political conservatives who really believe in many respects that our government should be run as a totalitarian state like fascism. We saw this tragic reality when the Klu Klux Klan was once one of the most powerful political forces in this country, when McCarthyism’s “guilt by association” became the rule of law, and when segregationists labeled civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King “agents of communism.” It was lawyers who led the way in bringing about an end to the underlying fanatical political ideology that created and sustained the government-sponsored repression of social justice during each of these dark moments in our nation’s history.]]></description>
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		<title>TEXAS DEATH PENALTY PROCEDURE UNCONSTITUTIONAL?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/09/texas-death-penalty-procedure-unconstitutional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/09/texas-death-penalty-procedure-unconstitutional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death Penalty Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death row]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Acknowledges Innocent People Have Likely been Executed

Harris County Criminal District Court Judge Kevin Fine on Thursday, March 4, 2010, created a tsunami of controversy in the Texas legal community when he reportedly made a comment that he was declaring the state’s death penalty unconstitutional. The comment was made during a hearing on a motion filed by defense attorneys in the case of John Edward Green Jr. who is facing a capital murder charge. What Judge Fine actually did was to declare Article 37.071 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure unconstitutional which is the statute that outlines the procedures for imposing the death sentence in this state.]]></description>
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		<title>BIG BROTHER’S WATCHING!</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/05/big-brother%e2%80%99s-watching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/05/big-brother%e2%80%99s-watching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Defense Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big brother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell Phone tracking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orwellian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snooping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Law Enforcement Seeks Cell Phone Surveillance in  Continued  War on Crime; But Who’s Watching Them?  …Federal Judges
In  an article titled “The Snitch In Your Pocket,” Newsweek Magazine (March 1, 2010) reported that in recent years Federal   prosecutors have been “seeking what seemed to be unusually sensitive  records,  internal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROBLEMS WITH POSITIVE IDENTIFICATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/26/problems-with-positive-identifications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/26/problems-with-positive-identifications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA exoneration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eyewitnesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innocent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mistaken identification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions: Mistaken Identification by Eyewitnesses

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

There have been 251 innocent people exonerated in this country by DNA evidence over the last two decades. The most disturbing aspect of this phenomenon of “convicting the innocent” is that more than 75 percent of those convictions involved mistaken identifications (according to the New York-based Innocence Project)—one or more witnesses pointing a finger of guilt at the wrong person. What is even more disturbing is that at least one-third of these mistaken identification cases involved two or more witnesses.]]></description>
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		<title>A TIP OF THE HAT FOR A JOB WELL DONE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/24/a-tip-of-the-hat-for-a-job-well-done/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/24/a-tip-of-the-hat-for-a-job-well-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homicide Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fabricated forensic evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harris County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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. “Convict at any costs” means the frequent use of fabricated forensic evidence, knowingly allowing perjured testimony into a criminal trial, withholding exculpatory evidence from defendants (particularly those known to be innocent), and injecting race in its death penalty decision-making. ]]></description>
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		<title>AN ELECTION TORPEDOES THE CONSTITUTION</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/18/an-election-torpedoes-the-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/18/an-election-torpedoes-the-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Politics of Terror Threaten Constitution

By:  Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The recent election of Republican Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts has effectively torpedoed the constitutional right to silence by any “terror suspect” arrested on American soil. Elected to replace the legendary liberal Senator Ted Kennedy, who died of brain cancer last August, Brown used the “politics of terror” to seal his stunning upset victory over Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. Brown accused the Obama administration of being “soft on terror” with its decisions to close Guantanamo Bay and to prosecute “9/11 mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and co-conspirators in a New York federal civilian court rather than before a military tribunal.]]></description>
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		<title>RELEASED SEX OFFENDERS &#8211; A GROWING UNDERCLASS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/15/released-sex-offenders-a-growing-underclass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/15/released-sex-offenders-a-growing-underclass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Abuse Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national sex offender database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Offenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In 1994 the United States Congress passed the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act which required all states to create programs mandating that certain kinds of sex offenders register with state or local authorities. Congress added teeth to the Act by threatening the states with a ten percent loss of federal anti-crime funding for failure to comply. ]]></description>
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		<title>MICHAEL JACKSONS DOCTOR CHARGED WITH  INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/11/michael-jackson%e2%80%99s-doctor-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/11/michael-jackson%e2%80%99s-doctor-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Defense Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bodily injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminal negligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair.

How do you save someone determined to destroy himself?

That question will surely be in the mind of most jurors who will ultimately decide the personal and professional fate of Dr. Conrad Murray, a Houston cardiologist, who was formally charged on February 8, 2010 with involuntary manslaughter in Los Angeles in connection with Michael Jackson’s death. Murray was the superstar’s personal physician last June when he administered the powerful anesthetic propofol and two sedatives to help Jackson,]]></description>
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		<title>WHO IS AAFIA SIDDIQUI &#8211; TERRORIST OR GOVERNMENT PAWN?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/05/who-is-aafia-siddiqui-terrorist-or-government-pawn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/05/who-is-aafia-siddiqui-terrorist-or-government-pawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[911]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aafia Siddiqui]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dirty bomb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tragic Case of the “The Gray Lady of Bagram”

By:  Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The U.S. Government contends Aafia Siddiqui’s alleged links to terrorism began in June 2001—some three months before the 9/11 terror attacks on New York City’s Twin Towers. According to government sources, Siddiqui made a trip from Quetta, Pakistan to Monrovia, Liberia, where she was met by a car and driven to the Hotel Boulevard, a known al Qaeda safe house. A week later Siddiqui allegedly left Monrovia in the same inauspicious manner in which she arrived—the only difference being is that she carried with her a large parcel of Africa’s illegal diamonds, a hard-to-trace but key funding source for al Qaeda’s terror operations.]]></description>
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		<title>MORE EVIDENCE OF BAD EVIDENCE &#8211; AGAIN</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/29/more-evidence-of-bad-evidence-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/29/more-evidence-of-bad-evidence-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fingerprinting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[junk science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical forensic experts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Criminal Defense Attorneys Must Question Findings, Conclusions of Forensic Experts

By:  Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have posted a number of blogs about the “junk science” associated with forensic evidence—a science popularized by network television with drams like “CSI” and its spin-offs. It would indeed by an ideal world if all the evidence-gathering and analysis reflected in these TV programs reflected the real world of crime and criminal prosecutions. The reality is that while these shows may entertain their legion of loyal viewers,]]></description>
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