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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; Habeas Corpus</title>
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		<title>ACTUAL INNOCENCE-PUTTING A CAMEL THROUGH EYE OF A NEEDLE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/05/23/actual-innocence-putting-a-camel-through-eye-of-a-needle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 14:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habeas Claims of Actual Innocence Require “Herculean” Burden by Clear and Convincing Evidence

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

It was March 22, 1987. Near midnight. The Dallas Police Department received a report that a man was lying face down in the street. The man was Jeffery Young who was transported to an area hospital, unconscious and bleeding. Before regaining consciousness, Young died and a subsequent autopsy revealed he had died from what the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said was “severe skull fractures that were the result of multiple blows to the head.” The Dallas police then received another report about a BMW parked in an alley near where Young had been found mortally injured. The police quickly determined the BMW belong to Young.]]></description>
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		<title>ACTUAL INNOCENCE IN POST-CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/09/28/actual-innocence-in-post-conviction-proceedings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions Recommends Expanded Post-Conviction DNA Testing, Habeas Corpus Based on Changing Science

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr., who presides in the Southern District of Georgia, recently observed in the death penalty case of Troy Davis (here and here) that only one state of the 35 states that have the death penalty does not have any post-conviction avenue for inmates to either secure or offer evidence of innocence. That lone state is Oklahoma. Altogether, 47 states and the District of Columbia have enacted statutes which provide varying degrees of access to remedies to establish innocence in a post-conviction setting. Massachusetts, Alaska, and Oklahoma are the only three hold-out states which have elected not to enact reform legislation in the critical area of establishing “actual innocence” despite the ever-increasing number of DNA exonerations.]]></description>
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		<title>TEXAS DISCOVERY PROCEDURES</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/09/25/texas-discovery-procedures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discovery, Brady Rules in Need of Reformation to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Last month the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel (“Panel”), which was created by the Texas Legislature in its 2009 session to develop recommendations for the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense to help prevent wrongful convictions, issued its “report” calling for changes in the state’s eyewitness identification procedures, custodial interrogations, discovery procedures, post-conviction proceedings, and various innocence projects that receive state funding.]]></description>
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		<title>IS LARRY RAY SWEARINGEN GUILTY OF CAPITAL MURDER?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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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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