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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; Sex Offenders</title>
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		<title>TEXAS COMMUNITY SUPERVISION REVISITED</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/18/texas-community-supervision-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legislative Rush to Punish “Sex” Offenders Removes Punishment Alternatives, Probation, Unnecessarily Increases Prison Overcrowding

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In 2008 we posted a piece about the restrictions the Texas Legislature had placed on the availability of probation. Historically probation was an alternative to penal incarceration designed to give first offenders and minor offenders a second chance.]]></description>
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		<title>THE RIGHT TO CONFINE FOREVER</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/05/29/the-right-to-confine-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 14:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indefinite Detention: Preemptive Punishment for Future Sex Crimes

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

On May 17, 2010 the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Comstock upheld a federal statute that gives Government the power to civilly commit indefinitely a “sexually dangerous person” after he has completed serving his criminal sentence. The statute, 18U.S.C. Sec. 4248, was the subject of one of our blogs earlier this year. §4248 has three basic components. First, it allows a federal district court to civilly commit an offender currently in the “custody of the [Federal] Bureau of Prisons” if that offender (1) has previously “engaged or attempted to engage in sexually violent conduct or child molestation,” (2) currently “suffers from a serious mental illness, abnormality, or disorder,” and (3) “as a result of” those conditions is “sexually dangerous to others” in that “he would have serious difficulty in refraining from sexual violent conduct or child molestation if released.”]]></description>
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		<title>RELEASED SEX OFFENDERS &#8211; A GROWING UNDERCLASS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/02/15/released-sex-offenders-a-growing-underclass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In 1994 the United States Congress passed the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act which required all states to create programs mandating that certain kinds of sex offenders register with state or local authorities. Congress added teeth to the Act by threatening the states with a ten percent loss of federal anti-crime funding for failure to comply. ]]></description>
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		<title>CHILD PREDATORS AND PUNISHMENT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/01/20/child-predators-and-punishment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disparate Treatment of Sex Offenders, Punishment and Public Policy

By:  Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

“Child predator” is now among the two worst words in the American lexicon. A 42-year-old Houston resident, we will call him John Doe, recently learned as much. According to allegations by law enforcement, the Magnolia High School institutional aide decided last October to look up former students on Facebook from high schools where he had worked. ]]></description>
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