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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; Murder</title>
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		<title>“JUNK SCIENCE” ONCE AGAIN PUTS TEXAS IN NATIONAL FOREFRONT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2012/01/05/%e2%80%9cjunk-science%e2%80%9d-once-again-puts-texas-in-national-forefront/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Lawyers Need to Challenge Questionable Expert Testimony and Conclusions

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In October 2010 we posted piece titled “Dog Witnesses Kicked Out of the Courtroom” concerning a capital murder case in San Jacinto County. The accused, all members of the same family—Richard Lynn Winfrey Sr. and his son, Richard Jr., and daughter, Megan—were arrested in 2006 for the brutal murder of Murray Wayne Burr, a longtime custodial worker at the high school attended by the Winfrey siblings. Local law enforcement officials considered Winfrey and his two children as “persons of interests” shortly after Burr was murdered in his home, even though DNA evidence found at scene excluded the Winfreys. The proverbial “break in the case” came in 2006 when Richard Sr., who was housed in the Montgomery County jail, told another inmate David Campbell that “some kind of gun and some kind of knife collection” had been taken from Burr’s home, as well as other details about the murder, including the victim’s body being dragged from one room to another. Campbell repeated this information to the authorities.]]></description>
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		<title>THE IMPACT OF PINHOLSTER ON NEWLY-DISCOVERED EVIDENCE AND BRADY VIOLATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/12/17/the-impact-of-pinholster-on-newly-discovered-evidence-and-brady-violations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 1982, Scott Lynn Pinholster, a California native, was an Aryan Brotherhood-type who, along with two like-minded cohorts, went to the home of a local drug dealer named Michael Kumar. The drug dealer was not at home when the Neo-Nazi trio arrived so they began to ransack the residence in search of drugs and money. At this inopportune time, two of Kumar’s friends, Thomas Johnson and Robert Beckett, arrived at the drug dealer’s home where they confronted the burglars. That confrontation led to Pinholster and his cohorts brutally beating and repeatedly stabbing Johnson and Beckett until they were dead.]]></description>
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		<title>IMMUNITY DENIED FOR ROGUE PROSECUTOR</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/08/23/immunity-denied-for-rogue-prosecutor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reasonable Prosecutors Should Know Constitution is Implicated When Person is Deprived of Liberty by State Sponsored Seizure and Detention

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have posted up several posts this year about prosecutorial misconduct and the tendency by the courts to tolerate, if not bless, this increasing phenomenon which is a disgrace to our criminal justice system. Well, we’re pleased to report that last month the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, in Schneyder v. Smith, held a rogue prosecutor accountable for her misconduct.]]></description>
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		<title>OUR TAKE ON THE CASEY ANTHONY VERDICT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/07/16/our-take-on-the-casey-anthony-verdict/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/07/16/our-take-on-the-casey-anthony-verdict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lack of Evidence and Reasonable Doubts Lead to Acquittal

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Now that Casey Anthony has been acquitted on the most serious charges resulting from the death of her young daughter, Caylee, and is scheduled for release next week, virtually every media pundit, along with their side-kick “expert” attorneys has had their say about the case.  And now, after one of the jurors chose to flee the state of Florida in fear of retaliation, we also feel compelled to add a few comments—both about the verdict and the conduct of those expert attorneys leading up to and subsequent to the verdict.]]></description>
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		<title>REQUESTS FOR DNA TESTING PRESENT ENORMOUS CHALLENGES</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/05/31/requests-for-dna-testing-present-enormous-challenges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/05/31/requests-for-dna-testing-present-enormous-challenges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 19:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death Penalty Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right to Appointed Counsel Not Absolute: Courts Only Required to Appoint Counsel if Reasonable Grounds Exist for DNA Testing

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the September 5, 1998 robbery/murder of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville. The elderly woman owned a mobile home park and the trailer in which she lived doubled as an office. Gutierrez was a friend of Harrison’s nephew. He and the nephew, with other neighbors, frequently gathered behind the Harrison trailer to drink and socialize. Through this relationship Gutierrez got to know a lot about how Harrison conducted her business affairs; specifically, that she did not trust banks and kept all of her money in her trailer/office. Gutierrez was one of the few people who knew Harrison kept large sums of money in the trailer. ]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/05/23/actual-innocence-putting-a-camel-through-eye-of-a-needle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 14:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/04/01/rogue-prosecutors-get-license-to-lie-and-cheat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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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>HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY USES LINGUISTICS TO TRANSFORM OLD CASES INTO COLD CASES</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/30/harris-county-district-attorney-uses-linguistics-to-transform-old-cases-into-cold-cases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/30/harris-county-district-attorney-uses-linguistics-to-transform-old-cases-into-cold-cases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Decades old cases are prosecuted without any new evidence and with critical fact witnesses missing or dead, increasing likelihood of wrongful convictions

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Roy McCaleb was murdered in Harris County on September 22, 1985. The Houston Chronicle reported that McCaleb’s wife, Carolyn Sue Krizan-Wilson, told the police that a gloved man entered their Galena Park home, raped her, and then shot her husband as he lay sleeping. She said the intruder was the same man who had raped her ten days earlier and he had somehow tracker her down in order to do it again. According to the newspaper, Krizan-Wilson did not report the earlier sexual assault to the police although her son at the time was in the Houston Police Department’s Training Academy. Krizan-Wilson, however, did make an “outcry” to a fellow employee shortly after the first rape occurred. She would later say she was too “embarrassed” to report the first rape.]]></description>
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		<title>POLICE MISCONDUCT-A GROWING EPIDEMIC?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/02/24/police-misconduct-a-growing-epidemic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/02/24/police-misconduct-a-growing-epidemic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston Police Department, Harris County Law Enforcement Gaining National Reputation for Police Abuse and Misconduct

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have blogged in the past about the travesty of police misconduct, especially the kind where brutality is inflicted upon criminal suspects for no reason. The Houston Police Department (HPD) has now been shown in a couple recent disclosures of videos stomping, kicking, and beating defenseless, even handcuffed, suspects and these lawless acts of brutality have roiled this community with outrage, anger, and frustration (here and here). ]]></description>
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		<title>THE COST OF MURDER-THE PRICE OF INNOCENCE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/10/30/the-cost-of-murder-the-price-of-innocence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/10/30/the-cost-of-murder-the-price-of-innocence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Graves Exonerated: Blatant Prosecutorial Misconduct of D.A. Charles Sebesta Sent Innocent Man to Death Row for 18 Years

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

A recent Iowa State University study, conducted by sociology professor Matt DeLisi, found that the total cost to society for a single murder in the United States is $17.25 million. Professor DeLisi led a team of five Iowa State graduate students in a study of 654 convicted and incarcerated murderers. This enormous price tag is measured in terms of costs to the victims, the criminal justice system, loss of productivity to both the victim and offender, and estimated costs to society to prevent future violence.]]></description>
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