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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; child sex crime</title>
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		<title>OVERZEALOUS FEDERAL PROSECUTION FOR PRODUCTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY REVERSED</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/26/overzealous-federal-prosecution-for-production-of-child-pornography-reversed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think that an Assistant U.S. Attorney, charged with prosecuting offenses against the laws the United States, would understand the laws upon which he elects to indict a criminal defendant. But far too often federal prosecutors, especially in “child sex cases,” are more concerned with securing convictions to “notch” the handle on their legal resume than in pursuing justice as they are legally and ethically required to do. Such was the apparent motive for the 2009 prosecution of a petty “voyeur,” Allen Steen, in federal court in Odessa, Texas under the child pornography law, 18 U.S.C. 2551(a)—a statute which carries a mandatory minimum of 15 years upon conviction.]]></description>
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		<title>CONSENSUAL SEX WITH A MINOR-RAPE AND MASS HYSTERIA</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/19/consensual-sex-with-a-minor-rape-and-mass-hysteria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schocking Allegations Of Sexual Assault In Cleveland, Texas

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Allegations of mass rape have literally ripped apart the social fabric of Cleveland, Texas, a Liberty County community of 7000-plus people just 45 miles north of Houston. The town has never been known as a bastion of racial harmony, but the sexual assault of an 11-year-old Hispanic girl there last Thanksgiving by as many as two dozen suspects—most of whom African-American—has splintered the town’s racial coexistence, which according to some was already as tattered as the neglected American flag flying above so many double-wide trailers in small Texas towns like Cleveland.]]></description>
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		<title>SEXUAL ASSAULT DEFENSES SEVERELY RESTRICTED</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/11/04/sexual-assault-defenses-severely-restricted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/11/04/sexual-assault-defenses-severely-restricted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extraneous Offenses: The Impact of Bass on Admissibility of other Crimes, Wrongs and Bad Acts.

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We wrote about the Curtis Bass case last year (here). We will restate the facts of the Bass case here to illustrate the profound effect the case has had on defending sexual assault cases, particularly those involving child victims.]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/08/07/ostrich-instruction-rejected-in-federal-online-solicitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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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 PITFALLS OF EXPERT TESTIMONY IN CHILD  SEXUAL ABUSE CASES</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/05/08/the-pitfalls-of-expert-testimony-in-child-sexual-abuse-cases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/05/08/the-pitfalls-of-expert-testimony-in-child-sexual-abuse-cases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 07:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Child Sexual Assault Expert Lies about Conclusions of Study

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have written previously about the prolific use of “child sexual abuse experts” in child sexual assault cases. In particular, we have criticized the testimony such experts from the Harris County Children’s Assessment Center (“CAC”). While seldom providing any specific source, these experts testify that the professional “literature” and “studies” reveal child sexual abuse victims rarely ever make “false” allegations about such abuse. The experts confidently inform juries that the rate of false allegations in child sexual abuse cases is about “three percent.” While our Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that such generalized testimony does not constitute impermissible “bolstering” of a child sexual abuse victim’s testimony, criminal defense attorneys who have faced this kind of “expert” testimony in emotionally-charged child sexual assault cases understand clearly that such testimony does lend tremendous bolstering-like credibility to the child’s testimony.]]></description>
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		<title>IS HIV A DEADLY WEAPON?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/30/is-hiv-a-deadly-weapon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/30/is-hiv-a-deadly-weapon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas Prosecutors Use HIV as Deadly Weapon in Aggravated Sexual Assault Case

By:   Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Let us state quite emphatically at the outset that we do not know if K. L. Sellars is guilty of the crime the Harris County District Attorney’s Office has leveled against him. Many people are wrong accused of crimes they did not commit, so we will leave judgment that to a jury of his peers. 

Sellars is charged with having a 15-year-old teenager, who he met on the social networking site myspace.com, fly from his Indiana home to Houston last December, where he spend 10 days with Sellars. Based on accusations made by the teenager, the District Attorney’s Office charged Sellars with aggravated sexual assault of a child, primarily because the teenager is under age according to Texas law and secondly because Sellars allegedly used a deadly weapon in the commission of the offense.]]></description>
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		<title>CHILD PORN RESTITUTION RUN AMUK</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/22/child-porn-restitution-run-amuk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/22/child-porn-restitution-run-amuk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Judges Split on Issue of Restitution in Possession of Child Pornography Cases

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Her name is “Amy.” She is twenty years of age. When she was a child, 8 or 9 (according to media reports), Amy was sexually abused by her uncle. The uncle took photos of the abuse and posted the images on the Internet. Amy’s images became some of “the most widely circulated child pornography images online,” according to Associated Press writer Amy Forliti in a recent report.]]></description>
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		<title>CHILD PORNOGRAPHY: JUDICIAL CHAOS LEADS TO HORRIFIC SENTENCING DISPARITIES</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/20/child-pornography-judicial-chaos-leads-to-horrific-sentencing-disparities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/20/child-pornography-judicial-chaos-leads-to-horrific-sentencing-disparities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Court Describes Federal Sentencing Disparities as “A Picture of Injustice”

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In 1984 the United States Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act (“SRA”), and as part of the Act, Congress created the United States Sentencing Commission (“Commission”) to “establish sentencing policies and practices for the Federal criminal justice system.” 1/ The Commission was charged with the responsibility of creating U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (“Guidelines”) that would assist Federal judges in the sentencing process to fulfill Congress’ five purposes for imposing criminal sentences. 2/]]></description>
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		<title>THESE ARE DANGEROUS TIMES IN WHICH WE LIVE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/14/these-are-dangerous-times-in-which-we-live/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/01/14/these-are-dangerous-times-in-which-we-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civil Commitment: Pre-Emptive Strike against Future Acts by Convicted Sex Offenders

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In 1999 John Charles Volungus plead guilty in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky to three federal criminal sex offenses: possession of child pornography; receipt of child pornography through interstate commerce by means of a computer; and use of a facility of interstate commerce (computer) to persuade a person under the age of eighteen to engage in a sexual act. 1/ He was sentenced to 53 months in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) to be followed by a term of supervised release. He was released from actual custody only to have his supervised release revoked. He was returned to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for another23 months. This latter term of imprisonment expired on February 15, 2007. 2/ Although housed at a number of different facilities while in the custody of the BOP, Volungus was confined at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts (a prison hospital) when he completely satisfied his prison sentence. 3/]]></description>
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		<title>THE REAL DANGER OF EXTRANEOUS OFFENSE EVIDENCE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/12/19/the-real-danger-of-extraneous-offense-evidence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/12/19/the-real-danger-of-extraneous-offense-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man Convicted on 2 Counts Indecency with a Child Found Actually Innocent After Nearly Two Decades in Prison: Extraneous Evidence False, Expert Testimony Wrong.

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have written on numerous occasions about the dangers of “extraneous offense evidence” when allowed into evidence in a criminal trial. What is extraneous offense evidence?

Extraneous evidence is evidence of another crime, wrong or bad act that is not relevant to proving the specific allegation made in the charging instrument, information or indictment.  For example, a prior unrelated DWI conviction would be an extraneous crime in an arson case.  It would generally be inadmissible in the guilt/innocence stage of a criminal case because it is irrelevant to the arson charge and has no bearing on any fact that is of consequence in that case.]]></description>
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