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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; child molester</title>
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		<title>DEFENDING AGAINST JUROR BIAS IN SEX CRIMES</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Child Abuse Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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).  These kinds of sexual assault allegations are easy to indict and even easier to prosecute. All the prosecution needs is the victim’s testimony to secure and sustain a conviction. These offenses are difficult to defend because potential jurors enter the trial setting with a predisposed bias against anyone charged with a sex offense against a child. While the defense counsel tries to exclude these biased jurors from the jury, either through peremptory challenges or challenges for cause, too many effectively conceal their bias in order to serve and convict. These jurors want to be part of a process that convicts the insidious “child molester.”]]></description>
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		<title>THE HARRIS COUNTY CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Past Abuses, Hopes for Better Future

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Three recent stories in the Houston Chronicle exposed serious flaws in the Harris County criminal justice system. The first story concerned a 60-year prison term imposed on Andrew Wayne Hawthorne, a serial child molester. Hawthorne molested an eight year old boy in the fall of 2002. A crime for which a wrongly accused man, Ricardo Rachell, was convicted and sentenced to prison.  Ricardo Rachell was convicted for this sexual assault and spent more than six years in the Texas prison system before readily available DNA evidence at the time of his arrest was finally tested and established his innocence.]]></description>
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