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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; Texas justice</title>
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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>
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		<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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		<title>TEXAS DEATH PENALTY PROCEDURE UNCONSTITUTIONAL?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/09/texas-death-penalty-procedure-unconstitutional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/03/09/texas-death-penalty-procedure-unconstitutional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death Penalty Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Acknowledges Innocent People Have Likely been Executed

Harris County Criminal District Court Judge Kevin Fine on Thursday, March 4, 2010, created a tsunami of controversy in the Texas legal community when he reportedly made a comment that he was declaring the state’s death penalty unconstitutional. The comment was made during a hearing on a motion filed by defense attorneys in the case of John Edward Green Jr. who is facing a capital murder charge. What Judge Fine actually did was to declare Article 37.071 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure unconstitutional which is the statute that outlines the procedures for imposing the death sentence in this state.]]></description>
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		<title>TEXAS GOV RICK PERRY IMPEDES INQUIRY ABOUT WHETHER TEXAS EXECUTED AN INNOCENT MAN</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/10/05/texas-gov-rick-perry-impedes-inquiry-about-whether-texas-executed-an-innocent-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/10/05/texas-gov-rick-perry-impedes-inquiry-about-whether-texas-executed-an-innocent-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death Penalty Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor’s abrupt Dismissal of Chairman, Two Members of Texas Forensic Science Commission on Eve of Hearing Smacks of Political Cover-up

By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

It is one thing for a governor to have possibly presided over the execution of an innocent man but quite another for that governor to effectively shut down an official investigation into whether the forensic evidence used convict the man was reliable.]]></description>
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		<title>MENTALLY RETARDED TEEN GETS 100 YEARS</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/07/21/mentally-retarded-teen-gets-100-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/07/21/mentally-retarded-teen-gets-100-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentally Disabled Youth with IQ Of 47, Allowed to Plead Guilty to Sexual Assault of a Child, Judge Orders Sentences to be Served Consecutively

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

The jury said it did not like the sentencing options made available to it. The judge said he was not pleased that he had to sentence an 18-year-old Paris, Texas teenager to 100 years in prison. The district attorney said he “sympathized” with teenager’s situation but it had to be remembered that he “committed a violent sexual crime against a little boy.”]]></description>
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		<title>DNA CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/17/dna-chickens-come-home-to-roost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/17/dna-chickens-come-home-to-roost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[City of Houston Sued; Disgraced Crime Lab on Trial After Wrongfully Convicted Man Exonerated After 17 Years in Prison

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

George Rodriquez was a 26-year-old young man in 1987 when he was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl in Harris County. A critical piece of evidence that led to his conviction was a pubic hair found in the girl’s underwear. A serologist with the Houston City Police Department’s crime lab, who we now know had a history of fabricating evidence to suit local prosecutorial and law enforcement needs, determined that the hair did not belong to a suspect named Isidro Yanez but the serologist did not eliminate Rodriquez as the owner of the hair. Seventeen years later DNA, which was not used as evidence in criminal trials in 1987, established that the hair in fact belonged to Yanez and not to Rodriquez.]]></description>
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		<title>THE HARRIS COUNTY CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/11/the-harris-county-criminal-justice-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/06/11/the-harris-county-criminal-justice-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault Crime Attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child molester]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Past Abuses, Hopes for Better Future

By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Three recent stories in the Houston Chronicle exposed serious flaws in the Harris County criminal justice system. The first story concerned a 60-year prison term imposed on Andrew Wayne Hawthorne, a serial child molester. Hawthorne molested an eight year old boy in the fall of 2002. A crime for which a wrongly accused man, Ricardo Rachell, was convicted and sentenced to prison.  Ricardo Rachell was convicted for this sexual assault and spent more than six years in the Texas prison system before readily available DNA evidence at the time of his arrest was finally tested and established his innocence.]]></description>
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		<title>FLDS REVISITED: ONE YEAR LATER</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/03/25/flds-revisited-one-year-later/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/03/25/flds-revisited-one-year-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Abuse Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aftermath of the Texas CPS Raid

By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

In the fall of 2003 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (“FLDS”) arrived in Eldorado, Texas. They purchased a 1700-acre ranch four miles outside of town. They called it the “Yearn for Zion Ranch” (“YFZ”). More members arrived. They constructed a mammoth temple and created their own community. They lived in peace.]]></description>
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		<title>CAPITAL PUNISHMENT:</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/03/15/capital-punishment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death Penalty Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AN INDICTMENT BY A DEATH ROW SURVIVOR

By: Billy Sinclair

I am pleased to announce, through the website of the John T. Floyd Law Firm, that my wife, Jodie, and I have recently released our second book, Capital Punishment: An Indictment by a Death Row Survivor. Released by the prestigious publishing house Arcade Publishing (New York), Capital Punishment is a collection of fourteen essays that examines the entire spectrum of the subject of the death penalty: its methods of executions, its Southern regional phenomenon, its racism, its tortuous botched executions, and its impact on our society.]]></description>
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		<title>IS LARRY RAY SWEARINGEN GUILTY OF CAPITAL MURDER?</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/02/04/is-larry-ray-swearingen-guilty-of-capital-murder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/02/04/is-larry-ray-swearingen-guilty-of-capital-murder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death Penalty Crimes Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair 

Is Larry Ray Swearingen guilty of capital murder? The State of Texas, through Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Marc Brumberger, believes that he is. The parents of Melissa Trotter, Charles and Sandra Trotter, believe that he is. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals believes that he is.

But Swearingen’s attorney, James Rytting, the New York-based Innocence Project, and a host of forensic pathologists, including Glenn Larkin, strenuously believe that he is not. As Larkin recently told Texas Monthly Magazine: “no rational and intellectually honest person can look at the evidence and conclude Larry Swearingen is guilty of this horrible crime.” While the Houston Chronicle, in a January 23, 2009 editorial, did not go as far as Larkin, the respected editorial board of the newspaper said: “He may not be a saint, but Swearingen does not deserve to die for someone else’s crime.”]]></description>
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		<title>THE AFFAIR OF A JUDGE, DA, AND A KILLER</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/09/10/the-affair-of-a-judge-da-and-a-killer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/09/10/the-affair-of-a-judge-da-and-a-killer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By:  Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair

Would you want a Judge presiding over a criminal case against you sleeping with the District Attorney prosecuting that case?

Didn’t think so. Most people wouldn’t. You expect a Judge to be neutral, free of the slightest appearance of impropriety. You expect a District Attorney to be zealous, honest, and even-handed in the prosecution of criminal cases. Those general expectations – what the State Bar calls the rules of ethical conduct – are compromised when a District Attorney prosecutes a case before a Judge with whom the District Attorney is having a sexual liaison.

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