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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; assault</title>
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		<title>MILITARIZED POLICE NO KNOCK SEARCHES KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Expanding “No Knock” Powers of the Police and Insulating Law Enforcement Abuses Allow a Growing Police State

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We are no fans of “no knock” searches by the police, especially those launched by militarized SWAT units. We made this clear after a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision expanding police powers to conduct such searches (here). We don’t like them because they kill innocent people indiscriminately. We have permitted our law enforcement agencies to become so militarized that “no knock” searches increased from 3,000 in 1981 to 50,000 in 2005, according to Eastern University of Kentucky criminologist Paul Kraska, and have resulted in the deaths of 40 innocent people during that time, according to the Washington-based Cato Institute. Peter Guither, with Drug War Rant, places the number of innocents killed in “no knock” searches at 42.]]></description>
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		<title>Aggravated Assault NOT Lesser Included of Aggravated Sexual Assault</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/04/30/aggravated-assault-not-lesser-included-of-aggravated-sexual-assault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Lawyers Sound Objection to Lesser Included Offense Causes Appellate Mental Madness

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Billy Sinclair

The law is rarely ever clearly defined. It is continuously subject to interpretation. 
The law is such a fluid creature that finding its true meaning is sometimes very difficult and can strain the bounds of intellectual honesty. This was illustrated on October 20, 2010 by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in the case of Oscar Rene Benavidez.]]></description>
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		<title>A DEFENSE ATTORNEY’S NARROW MARGIN FOR ERROR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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. The United States Supreme in 1984 handed down Strickland v. Washington which set forth the constitutional standard a criminal defendant must satisfy in order to establish that he/she was not effectively represented by their attorney. First, the defendant must prove that the defense attorney’s performance “fell below an objective standard of reasonableness,” and, second, the defendant must prove that counsel’s deficient performance so prejudiced his/her defense that the guilty verdict is unreliable and fundamentally unfair.]]></description>
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		<title>DOMESTIC VIOLENCE &#8211; A SENSITIVE SUBJECT TO APPROACH</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/10/24/domestic-violence-a-sensitive-subject-to-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The night before her death, according to the Houston Chronicle, Lewis asked her mother to go with her the next day to get a restraining order against R.P., a man with a lengthy criminal record with at least two dozen arrests including an assault on a family member and injuring a child.]]></description>
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