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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; child sexual assault</title>
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		<title>THE JERRY SANDUSKY CASE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/11/21/the-jerry-sandusky-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outrageous Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse and Failure to Report Devastate Presumption of Innocence and Shift Burden of Proof

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Contrary to the screaming media pundits, who have thrown the presumption of innocence out the window, we do not know if former Penn State defensive coordinator is guilty of the 40 child sexual abuse allegations leveled against him by a “Happy Valley” grand jury. We certainly do not presume his guilt. As a criminal defense law firm, we are deeply disturbed, although not surprised, that Sandusky has already been tried, convicted, and sentenced in the court of public opinion. The presumption of innocence and the right to a fair trial has been eroded into oblivion by the cable news networks, like former prosecutor and HLN’s guilt-announcing host Nancy Grace. We would caution the general public to remember the California McMartin “preschool” child sex abuse scandal that began with outrageous allegations of child sex abuse, three years of investigation and six years of trials which did not produce a single conviction, but ended with exposure an array of misconduct by the media covering the story, law enforcement investigators prosecutors who brought it to trial, the child victims and their parents. ]]></description>
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		<title>INTRODUCING EVIDENCE OF PRIOR FALSE ALLEGATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/08/16/introducing-evidence-of-prior-false-allegations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confronting Witnesses with Prior False Allegations to Support Theory of Bias, Motive or Interest

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

One of the most devastating crimes that can happen to anyone is to be falsely accused of having sexually assaulted a child. A significant number of potential jurors in child sexual assault cases readily admit in jury selection, voir dire, that they do not believe a child would “make up” a story about being abused. But we know it happens (here, here, and here). Children lie about sexual abuse for an endless assortment of reasons: mom told them to do it in bitter divorce custody disputes; they want to “get even” with a relative who was responsible for them being disciplined; they want to be removed from a household, especially in foster care, in which there are a lot of behavioral restrictions; they are emotionally unstable or mentally ill.]]></description>
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		<title>A GOOD LOOK AT POTENTIAL JUROR BIAS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/04/13/a-good-look-at-potential-juror-bias/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/04/13/a-good-look-at-potential-juror-bias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In re Commitment of Seth Hill: The Importance of Uncovering Bias Against Sexual Orientation in Jury Selection

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Every criminal defendant enjoys a right protected by the Sixth Amendment of the United State Constitution to a trial by an impartial jury chosen from a jury panel that represents a fair cross-section of the community. A voir dire examination of a jury venire exists primarily to allow the parties the opportunity to reveal a potential bias among prospective jurors. While a trial court’s discretion at both the state and federal level is virtually unfettered when it comes to controlling voir dire questioning, there are occasions when the appellate courts find an abuse of that discretion when the trial court arbitrarily restricts a specific line of questioning designed to elicit bias among potential jurors. For example, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that a trial court was required to conduct an in-depth inquiry, or permit such an inquiry by the parties, into racial bias when a reasonable potential for bias existed because feelings among prospective jurors toward African-American defendant were unknown and he was being tried by a white jury in a predominantly white area.]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/26/overzealous-federal-prosecution-for-production-of-child-pornography-reversed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/19/consensual-sex-with-a-minor-rape-and-mass-hysteria/#comments</comments>
		<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>REFORM CAN SOMETIMES BE BAD MEDICINE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/01/reform-can-sometimes-be-bad-medicine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/01/reform-can-sometimes-be-bad-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anonymous Inside Sources Criticize Harris County District Attorney

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Like all cold and flu medicine, “reform” at the governmental level sometimes gags those resistant to changing practices and policies away from the bad toward the good. Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos was elected on the theme that she would introduce “reform” to the district attorney’s office and put an end to the often illegal and unethical practices of the “convict at any cost” which hallmarked the former administrations of Charles “Chuck” Rosenthal and his predecessor Johnny Holmes. The trial of a criminal case is controlled by three entities: the judge, the prosecutor, and the defense counsel. To be effective and responsible, each entity must do their job in an honest, decent, and fair way. That was seldom the case under Rosenthal and Holmes.]]></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>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>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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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>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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