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The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a criminal defendant with seven rights, three of which concern the right to a trial—right to a speedy trial, right to a public trial, and right to an impartial jury.
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Category: Immigration Crimes
Public outrage may have forced the Trump administration to cease separating immigrant children from their parents, but the administration’s “zero tolerance” policies remain in place—policies that have a detrimental impact on non-citizens and citizens alike.
Touted by the president…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
On August 28, 2018, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a police excessive force case that will not please the law enforcement community.
Given today’s divisive political climate, the political makeup of the three-judge panel…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
In a November 2016 post, we made this observation about the vanishing trial in the federal court system:
“ … it’s behind closed doors where U.S. Attorneys lean hard on criminal defense attorneys to advise their clients that a…
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption
With the recent guilty plea of former President Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, and his agreement to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the legal debate about whether a sitting president…
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
In the summer of 1982 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh was17 years of age and Christine Blasey Ford was 15 years of age. She attended the private all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland while Kavanaugh attended private…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Smuggling | Drug Trafficking
San Antonio is one of several large cities near the Mexico border experiencing drug trafficking problems due to the prevalence of “drug cartels.” The DEA and other federal law enforcement agencies have increased their presence in these cities in a…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Distribution | Drug Manufacturing
A 20-year-old Texas Army National Guardsman recently deployed to Laredo to assist Customs and Border Protection at the World Trade Bridge allegedly stole approximately 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine while on duty.
According to reports, the guardsman removed a picture…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
Those words were written by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Don R. Willett in an August 31, 2018 decision—Zadeh v. Robinson.
In the Zadeh decision, Judge Willett expressed the strong view that the “doctrine of qualified immunity ……
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
The August 9, 2014 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an African American, in Ferguson, Missouri by a white police officer named Darren Wilson during a street stop unleashed local civil disobedience and a violent, militarized police response. This tragic shooting…
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