In January 2012 the Texas Department of Public Safety realized it had a major problem with one of its employees—a forensic scientist named Jonathan Salvador who had been employed with the agency for six years. He was assigned to the…
Month: June 2014
2014
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
It has been hailed by privacy rights activists and legal scholars as the most significant U.S. Supreme Court decision in the “digital age.” The decision was handed down on June 25 in the case David Leon Riley v. California. The…
2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Let it be said that Samuel Volpendesto led an interesting, albeit controversial, life. He was a war hero earning a box full of medals, including a coveted Bronze Star. In 1945, during World War II, he volunteered to swim into…
2014
Josh Rogin is the senior correspondent for national security and politics for The Daily Beast. He recently wrote an “exclusive” article about Hillary Clinton’s role as a defense attorney in a 1975 Arkansas first-degree child rape case involving two perpetrators.…
2014
Category: White Collar Crime
On April 9, 2015, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to amend economic crime guidelines and to change the drug quantity table to account for the rescheduling of hydrocodone.
The response from defense lawyers and others concerned with fair and…