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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; Illegal drugs</title>
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		<title>EXTRANEOUS OFFENSE EVIDENCE IN FEDERAL COURT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/12/23/extraneous-offense-evidence-in-federal-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probative or Prejudicial:  Evidence of Previous Drug Convictions Admitted to Show Proof of Intent in Drug Case

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have written recently about the dangers of the use of extraneous offense evidence at the state trial level; specifically, that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has virtually eliminated the availability of any defense in sexual assault cases, particularly those involving a child, when the State has in its possession extraneous offense evidence and the defendant wished to avoid its admission in court. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently confronted and outlined the parameters of extraneous offense evidence at the federal trial level.]]></description>
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		<title>MICHAEL JACKSON’S DEATH, POTENTIAL CRIMINAL LIABILITY</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/07/03/michael-jackson%e2%80%99s-death-potential-criminal-liability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/07/03/michael-jackson%e2%80%99s-death-potential-criminal-liability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctors Move to Hire Criminal Defense Attorney Vital in Protecting His Reputation and Liberty in the Jackson Whirlwind

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The death of celebrity brings out the worst in humanity. The recent death of singer/entertainer Michael Jackson has once again proven this tragic point. We have seen it all before: the lurid headlines, anonymous sources, and grist mill of rumors all designed to insinuate wrongdoing by any and every one associated with the celebrity-figure from nanny to granny. To paraphrase American author Ann Morrow Lindberg, we make our heroes in America only to destroy them.]]></description>
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		<title>A GLIMPSE AT THE NATION’S DRUG PROBLEM</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/07/a-glimpse-at-the-nations-drug-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/07/a-glimpse-at-the-nations-drug-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[20:1 Crack/Powder Ratio Still Flawed; Incarceration of Most Drug Offenders Absurd and Obscene

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In May 2007 the U.S. Sentencing Commission sent a report to Congress recommending that the 100:1 sentencing ratio in crack/powder cocaine cases be reduced to 20:1. The 100:1 ratio under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines required federal district courts to treat one gram of crack cocaine as the equivalent of 100 grams of powder cocaine. That disparate sentencing scheme created thousands of horrendous miscarriages of justice in the federal sentencing process with all sorts of ugly racial implications. Crack cocaine offenders, disproportionately African American, were routinely punished 100 times more severely than powder cocaine offenders. ]]></description>
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		<title>JUICED BY THE DESIRE FOR FITNESS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/03/juiced-by-the-desire-for-fitness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/03/juiced-by-the-desire-for-fitness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addiction to Pumping Iron and Juicing Leads to Massive Arrests in Houston Area and Ft. Bend County

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

It was billed by raiding law enforcement officials as the “largest drug operation” in Fort Bend County history.  The stark, glaring headlines and the “perp walks” would lead one to believe that a violent Mexican drug cartel had just been “busted” in Fort Bend County.

But that wasn’t the case. The “drug operation,” coined Operation “Farmacia de Juicy Phruit,” involved about six dozen personal fitness trainers and body builders who sold human growth hormones, anabolic steroids, Hydrocodone, and Ecstacy in area fitness centers. The mass arrests, which included a Houston firefighter (as if the Houston Fire Department needed more adverse publicity), culminated a two-year investigation led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright. Fifty-one of those arrested were booked on state charges while the remaining 22 were indicted on federal charges, including money laundering and conspiracy to possess, distribute and manufacture a controlled substance.]]></description>
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		<title>JUDICIAL WAR OVER CRACK SENTENCING COMES TO AN END</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/01/30/judicial-war-over-crack-sentencing-comes-to-an-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/01/30/judicial-war-over-crack-sentencing-comes-to-an-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moore and Spears: District Courts have Discretion to Reject the 100:1 Crack/Powder Cocaine Ratio

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair

Last October we posted a blog entitled “The Judicial Wars Invoked by Crack Sentencing” (Oct. 24, 2008). The blog focused on a judicial tiff between the U.S. Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of James Eric Moore. We are pleased to report that the Supreme Court has finally put this issue to bed in two cases this Term.]]></description>
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		<title>HISD CONSIDERS RANDOM DRUG SEARCHES</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/12/24/hisd-considers-random-drug-searches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/12/24/hisd-considers-random-drug-searches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The War on Drugs at School vs. Teachers’ Expectation of Privacy

By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Over the last two months sixteen Houston Independent School District employees, including 11 teachers, have been arrested on drug charges—mostly involving marijuana or prescription drugs found in parked vehicles on school campuses. Two of the employees were arrested twice. Most of the arrests came after anonymous tips, prompting HISD police to use drug-sniffing dogs to hit on narcotics in the vehicles.]]></description>
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		<title>BARRY BONDS: HOME RUN KING OR STEROID USER?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/06/12/barry-bonds-home-run-king-or-steroid-user/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/06/12/barry-bonds-home-run-king-or-steroid-user/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd Discusses Perjury, Obstruction of Justice and the Barry Bonds Case
Barry Bonds was 21 years of age when he joined the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1986. He was lean, mean, and fast – and certainly not considered a fearsome home run slugger. During his first seven years in the majors, he averaged [...]]]></description>
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