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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; prosecutorial misconduct</title>
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		<title>WRONGFUL CONVICTION AND PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/12/28/wrongful-conviction-and-prosecutorial-misconduct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filing Grievances, Request for Courts of Inquiry in Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration Cases

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

On December 12, 2011, writing for Mother Jones, Beth Schwartzapfel and Hannah Levintova published a piece titled “How Many Innocent People Are In Prison?”—a piece based in part on research conducted by University of Michigan Law Professor Samuel Gross. Gross’s research, with the assistance of the New York-based Innocence Project and the Center on Wrongful Convictions, determined there have been as many as 850 exonerations in this country since the late 1980s. The Innocence Project lists 282 exonerations since 1989 based on DNA evidence alone. Extrapolating from these two figures, Schwartzapfel and Levintova conservatively estimate that 1 percent of the total prison population in the United States have been wrongfully convicted. Put it raw numbers, this means that approximately 20,000 inmates in the nation’s prison system were wrongfully convicted.]]></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>THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF A BRADY VIOLATION</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/12/04/the-ethical-implications-of-a-brady-violation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/12/04/the-ethical-implications-of-a-brady-violation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disciplinary Action against Rogue Prosecutors Who Intentionally Engage in Wrongful Conduct, Brady Violations Rare

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Among lawyers practicing criminal law, “Brady violation” is probably second only to a “Miranda warning” as the most recognizable legal term in this country’s jurisprudence; and, significantly, both of these U.S. Supreme Court decisions are designed to curb prosecutorial and law enforcement misconduct. It’s an unfortunate commentary on our criminal justice system when these two important must be instructed by the highest court in the nation to obey the law and uphold our most cherished constitutional tenets: right to a fair trial and right to counsel.]]></description>
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		<title>MORE SHENANIGANS IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY DA’S OFFICE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/11/08/more-shenanigans-in-williamson-county-da%e2%80%99s-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/11/08/more-shenanigans-in-williamson-county-da%e2%80%99s-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA testing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[DA Announces Policy of Hiding Brady, Potentially Exculpatory Evidence

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have become convinced that the only way the Williamson County District Attorney’s office will operate in a lawful and ethical manner is for the State Bar to assign an ombudsman to oversee its day-to-day handling of criminal prosecutions. The behavior of this office in the Michael Morton case has already triggered four investigations, including one by the State Bar (here and here). Grits For Breakfast recently carried yet another report, which was first reported by Wilco Watchdog, concerning allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. This time the misconduct charges involve Assistant District Attorney Tommy Coleman who withheld exculpatory evidence in a 2010 theft case.]]></description>
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		<title>“PROSECUTOR OF THE YEAR” FEELS THE HEAT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/10/21/%e2%80%9cprosecutor-of-the-year%e2%80%9d-feels-the-heat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/10/21/%e2%80%9cprosecutor-of-the-year%e2%80%9d-feels-the-heat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Williamson County Justice System under Scrutiny by State Bar of Texas

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Since our last post about the tragic case of Michael Morton, the “prosecutor of the year” in that case, now District Judge Ken Anderson, and his cohort, Mike Davis, who actually prosecuted Morton for the 1986 murder of his wife, face investigations by the State Bar of Texas and Morton’s attorneys, according to the Austin Statesman. The State Bar investigation is, as the newspaper accurately reported, a “rare step” by the Bar, as is the public acknowledgement that it has undertaken a disciplinary investigation against two of its members. Morton was freed from the state’s prison system on October 4, 2011 after serving 25 years for a murder he did not commit and on October 11, 2011 the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals formally exonerated the man after DNA testing of a critical piece of evidence not only cleared Morton of the murder of his wife but identified the real killer as well.]]></description>
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		<title>“PROSECUTOR OF THE YEAR!”</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/10/17/%e2%80%9cprosecutor-of-the-year%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/10/17/%e2%80%9cprosecutor-of-the-year%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Williamson County District Attorneys Gain Distinction for Hiding Evidence, Wrongful Conviction and Hard Fought Cover-Up

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Ken Anderson was a prosecutor in Williamson County, Texas, in 1986. In fact, he became Williamson County’s longest tenured district attorney with 16 ½ years as the county’s chief prosecutor and 5 ½ years as an assistant district attorney. Anderson knew his prosecuting business—so much so that his political pal, Gov. Rick Perry, appointed him to a District Judge position in January 2002. Why not, the State Bar of  Texas Criminal Justice Section named Anderson “Prosecutor of the Year” in 1995 and five years later the Texas Crime Victim’s Clearinghouse tagged him the “Outstanding Prosecutor Upholding Victims’ Rights.” Along the way, he became a “Board Certified Criminal Law Specialist” and was elected as President of the Texas District and County Attorneys Association. And as if this was not enough for one man to achieve, Anderson lectured at over 300 schools where he told the leaders of tomorrow about the value of honest public service.]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/08/23/immunity-denied-for-rogue-prosecutor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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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>PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT IN CASEY ANTHONY CASE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/07/22/prosecutorial-misconduct-in-casey-anthony-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/07/22/prosecutorial-misconduct-in-casey-anthony-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors Fail to Disclose Favorable Evidence that Contradicted Expert’s Testimony

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

We have repeatedly made clear our disdain for prosecutorial misconduct (here). And here we go again. More dirty, underhanded prosecutorial tactics. Just two days after our July 16 post concerning the Casey Anthony “not guilty” verdict, The New York Times carried a report about these tactics being employed by Orlando prosecutors bent on convicting Anthony for capital murder of her two-year old daughter. In our July 16 post we made the following observation about manner of how little Caylee was murdered that prosecutors presented to the jury:]]></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>THE PURPOSE OF REASONABLE DOUBT IN CRIMINAL TRIALS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/02/11/the-purpose-of-reasonable-doubt-in-criminal-trials/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/02/11/the-purpose-of-reasonable-doubt-in-criminal-trials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post we discussed both the history and role of reasonable doubt in criminal trials. We noted and criticized the fact that Texas judges in criminal trials do not, per Texas Court of Criminal Appeals mandate, have to give jurors any instruction as to what constitutes “reasonable doubt.” This, we believe, is one of several reasons why Texas leads the nation in the wrongful conviction of innocent people.]]></description>
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