Mark A. Cowden was a bad cop long before he assaulted an arrestee, Ryan Hamrick, on January 27, 2015. He spent twenty-six years with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department in New Cumberland, West Virginia—fourteen of those years as a sergeant…
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
Criminal Jurisdiction:
A Criminal Law Blog from a Defense Perspective
2018
Category: Capital Crimes | Murder
Kent Whitaker—an extraordinary man and an exceptional father. A person could travel this wretched globe ten times over and could count the number of Kent Whitakers he would find on one hand.
On December 10, 2003, Kent Whitaker’s eldest…
2018
Category: Cyber Crimes | Illegal Pornography
The dark web is a mysterious place that is open to nefarious and illicit human behavior. In an April 2017 Stanford Law Review article titled Searching Places Unknown: Law Enforcement Jurisdiction on the Dark Web, Boston University Law Professor Ahmed…
2018
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
History will teach that the Donald Trump presidency was the most corrupt of the nation’s first 45 presidencies. Fourteen months into Trump’s presidency, at least 48 appointed government officials have resigned or been fired under suspicious circumstances. Trump assembled one…
2018
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, then Republican candidate Donald Trump railed against Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton about her alleged disclosure of classified material during her tenure as Secretary of State. The Republican controlled Congress, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.),…
2018
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Fraud
It has been a well-publicized fact that ICE agents have been increasingly active in implementing President Trump’s immigration crackdown, including arresting dozens of undocumented immigrants in “sanctuary cities” such as Seattle.
The immigrant-busting agency must now deal with its…
2018
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
In a ruling issued on February 14, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found there is reasonable evidence that the Harris County bail procedures are constitutionally deficient and that plaintiffs will likely succeed, but vacated the district court’s injunction…
2018
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Tax Evasion | Tax Law
Tax fraud.
It sounds like something with clear malicious intent. If you’re charged with tax fraud, you must have known what you were doing and thought you were clever enough to cheat the system.
But as everyone who…
2018
Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission Radiation, according to NASASpacePlace. Lasers produce a very narrow beam of light whose beam is larger at long distances. The beam projected from the laser is a small, millimeter-size dot…
2018
Category: Federal Criminal Law | terrorism
In 2016, federal law enforcement officials estimated that roughly 250 Americans had tried to join the terrorist group ISIS—most of whom never left the United States.
One of those who left the country to join ISIS was Wisconsin native…