It is called proactive online policing: law enforcement officials posing as minors, or guardians of minors, on the Internet to catch child sexual predators. Many of these accused predators are prosecuted under federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), although a…
Month: September 2014
2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Many Texans have now seen Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott’s ad about his herculean effort to re-build his strength following an accident in 1984 that left him permanently wheelchair bound. The ad depicts Abbott in a sweaty t-shirt…
2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Socrates once said, “Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to listen wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.”
The federal appellate courts have long recognized that a judge is more than “mere moderator” in federal…
2014
Most everyone living in a major media market in Texas has seen State Senator Wendy Davis’s first statewide campaign ad released during the first week of August claiming that Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Gregg Abbott sided with a…
2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
Probably the most difficult constitutional claim to establish in a federal habeas corpus proceeding is one of “actual innocence.” This premise was reinforced by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on August 19, 2014 in Jones v. Taylor.
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2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
File sharing permits the public or private sharing of computer data in a network that allows multiple people to read, view, modify, copy, print, or write in the same file. Child pornographers frequently utilize file sharing to share and receive…
2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Gov. Rick Perry and his defense team have characterized his recent two felony abuse of power indictments by a Travis County Grand Jury as “banana Republic politics.” The governor, and his defense team, is giving “banana Republic politics” a bum…