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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; child predator</title>
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		<title>OSTRICH INSTRUCTION REJECTED IN FEDERAL ONLINE SOLICITATION</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/08/07/ostrich-instruction-rejected-in-federal-online-solicitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deliberately Avoiding the Truth to Deny Criminal Knowledge

By Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

What is an “ostrich instruction?”

Also known as a “willful blindness” or “deliberate indifference” instruction in many federal circuits, an ostrich instruction is a jury instruction given when a criminal defendant claims a lack of guilty knowledge about the crime but there is some evidence the defendant deliberately elected to remain ignorant to avoid confirmation. Put succinctly, an ostrich instruction is generally given in cases where defendants deliberately close their eyes to the truth. It is not routinely used in federal online solicitation cases filed under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), which prohibits the knowing persuasion, inducement, enticement or coercion of a minor under 18 years of age to engage in prostitution or other illegal sexual activity.]]></description>
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		<title>THE RIGHT TO CONFINE FOREVER</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/05/29/the-right-to-confine-forever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/05/29/the-right-to-confine-forever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 14:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indefinite Detention: Preemptive Punishment for Future Sex Crimes

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

On May 17, 2010 the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Comstock upheld a federal statute that gives Government the power to civilly commit indefinitely a “sexually dangerous person” after he has completed serving his criminal sentence. The statute, 18U.S.C. Sec. 4248, was the subject of one of our blogs earlier this year. §4248 has three basic components. First, it allows a federal district court to civilly commit an offender currently in the “custody of the [Federal] Bureau of Prisons” if that offender (1) has previously “engaged or attempted to engage in sexually violent conduct or child molestation,” (2) currently “suffers from a serious mental illness, abnormality, or disorder,” and (3) “as a result of” those conditions is “sexually dangerous to others” in that “he would have serious difficulty in refraining from sexual violent conduct or child molestation if released.”]]></description>
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		<title>DNA CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/17/dna-chickens-come-home-to-roost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/17/dna-chickens-come-home-to-roost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City of Houston Sued; Disgraced Crime Lab on Trial After Wrongfully Convicted Man Exonerated After 17 Years in Prison

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

George Rodriquez was a 26-year-old young man in 1987 when he was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl in Harris County. A critical piece of evidence that led to his conviction was a pubic hair found in the girl’s underwear. A serologist with the Houston City Police Department’s crime lab, who we now know had a history of fabricating evidence to suit local prosecutorial and law enforcement needs, determined that the hair did not belong to a suspect named Isidro Yanez but the serologist did not eliminate Rodriquez as the owner of the hair. Seventeen years later DNA, which was not used as evidence in criminal trials in 1987, established that the hair in fact belonged to Yanez and not to Rodriquez.]]></description>
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		<title>THE HARRIS COUNTY CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/11/the-harris-county-criminal-justice-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/11/the-harris-county-criminal-justice-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<title>CHILD PREDATORS AND PUNISHMENT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/01/20/child-predators-and-punishment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disparate Treatment of Sex Offenders, Punishment and Public Policy

By:  Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

“Child predator” is now among the two worst words in the American lexicon. A 42-year-old Houston resident, we will call him John Doe, recently learned as much. According to allegations by law enforcement, the Magnolia High School institutional aide decided last October to look up former students on Facebook from high schools where he had worked. ]]></description>
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		<title>NO RIGHT TO SUE INTERNET SEX SERVICE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/01/10/no-right-to-sue-internet-sex-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/01/10/no-right-to-sue-internet-sex-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places, Turning a Blind Eye

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and
Paralegal Billy Sinclair

SexSearch is an “online adult dating service.” It charges a fee to assist its paid members in their search of sexual encounters. An Ohio gentleman identified only as John Doe became a “Gold Member” of SexSearch in October 2005 for a fee of $29.95 per month. John Doe accepted the “Terms and Conditions” of the website which included a “promise” that he was at least 18 years of age.]]></description>
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