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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; Miranda</title>
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		<title>Police Interrogations of Children</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/06/27/police-interrogations-of-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Age is Proper Factor in Miranda Custody Analysis

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

One thing you can depend upon, any time the U.S. Supreme is presented with an issue that involves extending or protecting the interests of a criminal “suspect,” Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito will be opposed to it. And at first impression, most people will say, “heck, there’s nothing wrong with that—criminals shouldn’t have rights or interests.” But what if that criminal suspect was their 13-year-old son? Would they be so inclined to accept that the police could question and secure a confession from him without their being present? Didn’t think so!]]></description>
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		<title>THE SUPREME COURT BACK PEDALS ON THE SIXTH AMENDMENT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/04/the-supreme-court-back-pedals-on-the-sixth-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/04/the-supreme-court-back-pedals-on-the-sixth-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Confrontation Clause]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Constitutional Right to Confront Witnesses Watered Down: Statements Describing Shooter Not Testimonial, Admissible Without Confrontation and Cross Examination

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

What a strange Supreme Court we have! You know it’s strange when Justice Sonia Sotomayer authors a lead opinion, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Breyer and Alito, which curtails longstanding constitutional jurisprudence regarding the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause over the dissent of Justice Antonin Scalia.  However, this was exactly the case in the Court’s recent opinion in Michigan v. Bryant, in which the Court held that statements made to police identifying and describing a “shooter” were not testimonial and thus were admissible in trial, even though the witness was dead and could not testify.]]></description>
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		<title>A DEFENSE ATTORNEY’S NARROW MARGIN FOR ERROR</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/07/06/a-defense-attorney%e2%80%99s-narrow-margin-for-error/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/07/06/a-defense-attorney%e2%80%99s-narrow-margin-for-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Questions about Defendant’s Post Arrest Silence Opens Door to Cross Examination
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Criminal defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel in criminal prosecutions against them. The United States Supreme in 1984 handed down Strickland v. Washington which set forth the constitutional standard a criminal defendant must satisfy in order to establish that he/she was not effectively represented by their attorney. First, the defendant must prove that the defense attorney’s performance “fell below an objective standard of reasonableness,” and, second, the defendant must prove that counsel’s deficient performance so prejudiced his/her defense that the guilty verdict is unreliable and fundamentally unfair.]]></description>
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		<title>THE CONTINUED ASSAULT ON MIRANDA</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/06/01/the-continued-assault-on-miranda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/06/01/the-continued-assault-on-miranda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism Lawyer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[public safety exception]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abandoning Miranda in Terrorism Cases Contrary to Constitution and Beginning of Slippery Slope towards Neo-Con Police State

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The United States Supreme Court in 1966 handed down Miranda v. Arizonawhich mandated to every law enforcement agency in this country that they advise all criminal suspects their right to silence; that anything they say can and may be used against them in a court of law; and that they have a right to an attorney. Findlaw columnist and former White House counsel John Dean has written two (here and here) recent columns in response to comments made by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on May 9, 2010 on several Sunday morning news/talk shows that the “Miranda warnings” given to terror suspects should perhaps be modified. Dean warned the Obama administration that, if the Holder comments represented possible “new policy,” it is navigating down a constitutional “slippery slope” by “messing with Miranda rights to fight terrorism.”]]></description>
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		<title>MIRANDA TAKES MORE HITS FROM SUPREME COURT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/31/miranda-takes-more-hits-from-supreme-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/31/miranda-takes-more-hits-from-supreme-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida v. Powell and Maryland v. Shatzer:  Why Criminal Suspects Should Never Talk to the Police Without an Attorney

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In December 2008 police officer Timothy Abernethy was chasing a suspect through a Houston apartment complex when the suspect, M. J. Landor, reportedly fired several shots at the officer. According to official reports, one of the bullets knock the 11-year police veteran to the ground at which time Landor approached him and shot him in the head. A massive police manhunt was undertaken to apprehend Landor, a parole violator, who was captured several hours later. Landor reportedly gave the police a detailed confession to the crime during several hours of police questioning.]]></description>
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		<title>SUPREME COURT CHANGES CONFESSION LANDSCAPE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/07/08/supreme-court-changes-confession-landscape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/07/08/supreme-court-changes-confession-landscape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[false confessions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police-coerced confessions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Montejo v. Louisiana; Suspects in Criminal Investigations Must Invoke Right to Counsel and Remain Silent, Even if Represented by Counsel

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson often warned his judicial colleagues that the court was “forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.”]]></description>
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