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Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
The federal judicial system has a perverse way of treating similarly situated criminal defendants in shameful disparate ways. For example, a federal drug defendant who fights their case at trial will receive a sentence three times more severe than a…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography
Federal courts are loathed to reverse a criminal conviction for technical statutory violations. This was evidenced in the January 21, 2016 decision by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Welch.
John Welch was convicted of…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
Several years ago we posted a piece about the FBI seizing and continuing to run a child pornography website between November 16, 2012 and December 2, 2012. The site, which had 5000 customers, was seized as part of a large…
Category: Corporate Fraud | Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
Americans over the past five or six decades have been lulled into believing white collar crime—crimes committed by the affluent or large companies (fraud, embezzlement, defective products, etc.)—is more socially acceptable than “blue collar” crime—crimes more often tied to street…
Category: Bank Fraud | Federal Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Most people have not heard of the former Toronto broker George Georgiou who was convicted in February 2010 on one count of conspiracy, four counts of securities fraud and four counts of wire fraud in federal court and sentenced to…
Category: Appeals | Federal Criminal Law | Guns
There’s no question that Des Moines, Iowa resident David Anthony Tumea had serious mental health problems in 2012.
There is also no question that Tumea had a bizarre proclivity for collecting, making, and possessing anything that could be used…
Category: Sex Crimes | Sexual Abuse
Three of the nation’s leading insurance companies that insure Protestant churches in America report that they receive roughly 250 reports each year of minors under the age of 18 being sexually molested by people associated with the churches, including clergy.…
Category: Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct | Sex Crimes
Four detectives (Joe Ryan Hartley, Ryan Wolff, Mike Duffy, and Heather Mykes) and one investigator (Michael Dickson) conducted an investigation into a 2009 burglary and sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl in Douglas County, Colorado.
40 Years Old, 190…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
Ivan Garcia-Lopez probably wishes he had taken his meal somewhere else on the evening February 5, 2014. He was living in a single-wide trailer home in Wharton County, Texas, with Jaime Garcia and his brother, Yonari.
Felony Arrest Warrant…
Category: Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography
Political scandals tend to always have a sordid beginning. That is the nature of the “porngate” scandal currently rocking Pennsylvania’s judicial and political systems at their core.
Sandusky Surfaces Again
Ironically enough porngate has its origins in the…
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