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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; rape</title>
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	<description>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION: Criminal Law Blog by Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair</description>
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		<title>ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2012/02/04/attorney-client-privilege/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special Rule of Privilege in Criminal Cases Provides Greater Protection to the Criminally Accused

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Ernest “Randy” Comeaux is currently an inmate serving six life sentences, without the benefit of parole, at the David Wade Correctional Center in Homer, Louisiana. The facts of Comeaux crime were detailed by a Louisiana Court of Appeals in the matter of Smith v. Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Department on April 24, 2004:]]></description>
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		<title>PUNISHMENT-TEXAS STYLE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/08/26/punishment-texas-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DWI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIRST DEGREE FELONY]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life Sentences for DWI, Shoplifting for Habitual Offenders

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Two years ago the Houston Chronicle carried report about a Montgomery County jury imposing a life sentence on a criminal defendant who shoplifted five compact discs from a Wal-Mart in Conroe. The defendant, Brian K. Balentine, was understandably stunned by the sentence. We just posted a piece about how a defendant’s criminal history, and even uncharged prior bad conduct, can come back to haunt him during the punishment phase of a trial. ]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal seizure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murder]]></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>TEXAS RAPE-SHIELD-RIGHT TO PRIVACY VS THE SIXTH AMENDMENTS CONFRONTATION CLAUSE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/08/04/texas-rape-shield-right-to-privacy-vs-the-sixth-amendments-confrontation-clause/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/08/04/texas-rape-shield-right-to-privacy-vs-the-sixth-amendments-confrontation-clause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confrontation rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRE 412 Permits Use of Past Sexual Behavior in Limited Circumstances

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Every state in these United States have what is known as “rape shield statutes”—laws that limit a criminal defendant’s ability to cross examine sexual assault victims about their past sexual behavior. Texas’ rape shield statute lies in Rule 412 of the Texas Rules of Evidence and explicitly applies only in sexual assault cases.  The, however, Rule is qualified to permit the use of “past sexual behavior” in certain situations: when it is necessary to rebut or explain scientific or medical evidence offered by the State, Subsection(b)(2)(A): when it is offered by the defendant upon the issue of whether the victim consented to the sexual behavior which is the basis for the charged offense, Subsection (b)(2)(B); and when it is relevant to show “motive or bias” on the part of the victim, Subsection (b)(2)(C).]]></description>
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		<title>UNTESTED RAPE KIT CASES AN ONGOING PROBLEM</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/06/12/untested-rape-kit-cases-an-ongoing-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/06/12/untested-rape-kit-cases-an-ongoing-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA exonerations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delay in Testing Delays Justice for Victims and Wrongly Accused

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In a June 4, 2011 article titled “Justice Delayed in Rape Cases,” Houston Chronicle staff writer Anita Hassan reported that five years ago the Houston Police Department crime lab had more than 4,000 “rape kits” sitting untested in its “property room freezer.” Some of these cases date back to the 1990s, according to Hassan, and more of them are still sitting idle in neglect waiting to be tested. The crime lab has only tested “200 cases” over the last five years, citing “a lack of manpower” in getting the job done. ]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Defense Attorney]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[false marking]]></category>
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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>CONSENSUAL SEX WITH A MINOR-RAPE AND MASS HYSTERIA</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/19/consensual-sex-with-a-minor-rape-and-mass-hysteria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/03/19/consensual-sex-with-a-minor-rape-and-mass-hysteria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schocking Allegations Of Sexual Assault In Cleveland, Texas

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Allegations of mass rape have literally ripped apart the social fabric of Cleveland, Texas, a Liberty County community of 7000-plus people just 45 miles north of Houston. The town has never been known as a bastion of racial harmony, but the sexual assault of an 11-year-old Hispanic girl there last Thanksgiving by as many as two dozen suspects—most of whom African-American—has splintered the town’s racial coexistence, which according to some was already as tattered as the neglected American flag flying above so many double-wide trailers in small Texas towns like Cleveland.]]></description>
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		<title>RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE TIMOTHY COLE ADVISORY PANEL ON WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/09/13/recommendations-from-the-timothy-cole-advisory-panel-on-wrongful-convictions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/09/13/recommendations-from-the-timothy-cole-advisory-panel-on-wrongful-convictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA exonerations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[false memories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Eyewitness Identification Procedure Reinforce False Memories and Lead to Wrongful Convictions

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

There have been 258 DNA exonerations in this country over the last two decades, according to the New York-based Innocence Project. In approximately 75 percent of those cases, eye misidentification played a significant role. It is an issue we have thus far blogged about four times this year (here, here, here, and here) and four times last year (here, here, here, and here)—the latter two 2009 posts dealing with the wrongful conviction of Timothy Cole.]]></description>
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		<title>WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS-TRAGIC RUSH TO JUDGMENTS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/08/31/wrongful-convictions-tragic-rush-to-judgments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/08/31/wrongful-convictions-tragic-rush-to-judgments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunnel Vision By Investigators and Prosecutors Convicts, Imprisons the Innocent

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Last year we blogged about the tragic wrongful convictions of three innocent Texas inmates, Ricardo Rachel, Timothy Cole (here and here), and Ernest Sonnier. This year has proven just as tragic. We have thus far blogged about the wrongful convictions of four more innocent Texas inmates: Donald Wayne Good, Anthony Robinson, Allen Wayne Porter, and Michael Anthony Green. The wrongful conviction emblem seems to have been deeply etched on the face of Texas justice. But convicting innocent people is not a phenomenon unique to this state.]]></description>
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		<title>PROBLEMS WITH POSITIVE IDENTIFICATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/26/problems-with-positive-identifications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/26/problems-with-positive-identifications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions: Mistaken Identification by Eyewitnesses

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

There have been 251 innocent people exonerated in this country by DNA evidence over the last two decades. The most disturbing aspect of this phenomenon of “convicting the innocent” is that more than 75 percent of those convictions involved mistaken identifications (according to the New York-based Innocence Project)—one or more witnesses pointing a finger of guilt at the wrong person. What is even more disturbing is that at least one-third of these mistaken identification cases involved two or more witnesses.]]></description>
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