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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; death row</title>
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		<title>ROGUE PROSECUTORS GET LICENSE TO LIE AND CHEAT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/04/01/rogue-prosecutors-get-license-to-lie-and-cheat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connick v. Thompson: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Prosecutors to Hide Evidence Favorable to the Accused without Consequence

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

John Thompson spent over 18 years in a Louisiana prison, 14 isolated on death role, after a prosecution described as fundamentally unfair by prosecutorial design.  
In Thompson’s struggle for justice, prosecutors intentionally withheld favorable evidence, which indicated he was innocent, prior to trial, during trial and throughout the years he spent in prison.  The Supreme Court has now held this was not a civil rights violation.   ]]></description>
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		<title>TEXAS DEATH PENALTY PROCEDURE UNCONSTITUTIONAL?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/09/texas-death-penalty-procedure-unconstitutional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Acknowledges Innocent People Have Likely been Executed

Harris County Criminal District Court Judge Kevin Fine on Thursday, March 4, 2010, created a tsunami of controversy in the Texas legal community when he reportedly made a comment that he was declaring the state’s death penalty unconstitutional. The comment was made during a hearing on a motion filed by defense attorneys in the case of John Edward Green Jr. who is facing a capital murder charge. What Judge Fine actually did was to declare Article 37.071 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure unconstitutional which is the statute that outlines the procedures for imposing the death sentence in this state.]]></description>
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		<title>TEXAS GOV RICK PERRY IMPEDES INQUIRY ABOUT WHETHER TEXAS EXECUTED AN INNOCENT MAN</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/10/05/texas-gov-rick-perry-impedes-inquiry-about-whether-texas-executed-an-innocent-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/10/05/texas-gov-rick-perry-impedes-inquiry-about-whether-texas-executed-an-innocent-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor’s abrupt Dismissal of Chairman, Two Members of Texas Forensic Science Commission on Eve of Hearing Smacks of Political Cover-up

By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

It is one thing for a governor to have possibly presided over the execution of an innocent man but quite another for that governor to effectively shut down an official investigation into whether the forensic evidence used convict the man was reliable.]]></description>
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		<title>CAPITAL PUNISHMENT:</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/03/15/capital-punishment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death Penalty Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AN INDICTMENT BY A DEATH ROW SURVIVOR

By: Billy Sinclair

I am pleased to announce, through the website of the John T. Floyd Law Firm, that my wife, Jodie, and I have recently released our second book, Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death Row Survivor. Released by the prestigious publishing house Arcade Publishing (New York), Capital Punishment is a collection of fourteen essays that examines the entire spectrum of the subject of the death penalty: its methods of executions, its Southern regional phenomenon, its racism, its tortuous botched executions, and its impact on our society.]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK RELEASE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/03/13/book-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAPITAL PUNISHMENT:
AN INDICTMENT BY A DEATH ROW SURVIVOR

By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd

I am happy to announce the release of another book by my good friends Billy and Jodie Sinclair entitled Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death Row Survivor, released by Arcade Publishing (New York). The book is a compelling collection of essays commenting on the death penalty from many different perspectives about this controversial and, in my opinion, most despicable, inhumane and arcane of punishments that continues to thrive in this so called modern world. ]]></description>
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		<title>BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK FOR JUDGES IN SOUTH TEXAS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/02/26/bad-day-at-black-rock-for-judges-in-south-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/02/26/bad-day-at-black-rock-for-judges-in-south-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judges Reap What They Sowed
By Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
There may be no Hero to the rescue in this dark drama hanging over the state and federal judiciaries in South Texas. The clouds in the horizon are as ominous as those that preceded Hurricane Ike last September. A sitting federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IS LARRY RAY SWEARINGEN GUILTY OF CAPITAL MURDER?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/02/04/is-larry-ray-swearingen-guilty-of-capital-murder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/02/04/is-larry-ray-swearingen-guilty-of-capital-murder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair 

Is Larry Ray Swearingen guilty of capital murder? The State of Texas, through Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Marc Brumberger, believes that he is. The parents of Melissa Trotter, Charles and Sandra Trotter, believe that he is. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals believes that he is.

But Swearingen’s attorney, James Rytting, the New York-based Innocence Project, and a host of forensic pathologists, including Glenn Larkin, strenuously believe that he is not. As Larkin recently told Texas Monthly Magazine: “no rational and intellectually honest person can look at the evidence and conclude Larry Swearingen is guilty of this horrible crime.” While the Houston Chronicle, in a January 23, 2009 editorial, did not go as far as Larkin, the respected editorial board of the newspaper said: “He may not be a saint, but Swearingen does not deserve to die for someone else’s crime.”]]></description>
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		<title>THE AFFAIR OF A JUDGE, DA, AND A KILLER</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/09/10/the-affair-of-a-judge-da-and-a-killer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/09/10/the-affair-of-a-judge-da-and-a-killer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By:  Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair

Would you want a Judge presiding over a criminal case against you sleeping with the District Attorney prosecuting that case?

Didn’t think so. Most people wouldn’t. You expect a Judge to be neutral, free of the slightest appearance of impropriety. You expect a District Attorney to be zealous, honest, and even-handed in the prosecution of criminal cases. Those general expectations – what the State Bar calls the rules of ethical conduct – are compromised when a District Attorney prosecutes a case before a Judge with whom the District Attorney is having a sexual liaison.

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		<title>TWO EXECUTIONS WITH INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/08/09/two-executions-with-international-implications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/08/09/two-executions-with-international-implications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TWO EXECUTIONS WITH INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS

By Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair

The State of Texas executed two foreign nationals during the week of August 5 and 7, 2008. Both men, Jose Ernesto Medellin and Heliberto Chi, were found guilty of committing brutal murders. There was little doubt about their guilt. Had they not been foreign nationals, their executions would have passed under the Texas execution radar basically unnoticed. This is a sad fact in this great state where executions have become all too common.]]></description>
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		<title>THE INEQUITY OF ONE DEATH, ONE LIFE; Inequities in the Application of the Death Penalty</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/08/05/the-inequity-of-one-death-one-life-inequities-in-the-application-of-the-death-penalty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/08/05/the-inequity-of-one-death-one-life-inequities-in-the-application-of-the-death-penalty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE INEQUITY OF ONE DEATH, ONE LIFE; Inequities in the Application of the Death Penalty

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair

On July 23, 2008 the State of Mississippi executed Dale Leo Bishop for his involvement in the beating death of 22-year-old Marcus James Gentry. The Bishop execution was significant only because he became the third person put to death in this country who did not actually kill the victim while the actual killer received life imprisonment.]]></description>
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