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Category: Federal Criminal Law | Federal Firearms
Penalty Provisions of Federal Gun Law Struck Down
In the opening line of a June 24, 2019 ruling in United States v. Davis, conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by the court’s four liberal justices, stated: “In…
Category: Criminal Law | Forfeiture
Texas law enforcement can seize, and keep, an individual’s private property—cash, cars, houses, or ranch/farm equipment, for example—when they suspect the property is connected to criminal activity.
According to the Institute for Justice, the federal government and all 50…
Category: Constitutional Law | SCOTUS
Most people share the common misunderstanding that under our constitution a person cannot twice be put in jeopardy for the same offense. This legal concept is known as “double jeopardy.” The Double Jeopardy Clause is located in the Fifth…
Category: Corruption | Crimes Against Children | Criminal Justice Reform
The Flores Settlement Agreement is a 1997 court settlement that places limits on the length of time in which migrant children can be held in detention and defines the conditions under which these children are incarcerated.
President Trump’s administration…
The Founding Fathers created the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution specifically to limit the power of the government to seize and search people, their property, and their homes.
The Constitution Center says, “Today the Fourth Amendment is understood…
Category: Immigration Crimes
In a May 24, 2019 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals presented the face of a typical Central American asylum seeker through the case of Nelson Esimar Martinez Manzanares.
Manzanares entered the United States near McAllen, Texas in…
Category: Drug Trafficking | Prescription Drugs
Dubbed “just drug dealers” by Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown, two Texas doctors and a nurse were recently convicted on federal drug trafficking charges. All three were sentenced to federal prison, 20 years for each doctor and 15 years…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
The Texas money bail system is hopelessly corrupt, economically discriminatory and patently unconstitutional.
Like in most state legislatures, individual lawmakers over the past several years in the Texas Legislature have attempted to reform the state’s antiquated money bail system…
Category: DUI | DWI | Federal Criminal Law
Most people charged with a DUI face state charges. However, it may come as a significant surprise that you can be charged with a federal crime for DUI.
Because most roadways are within the jurisdiction of the state government,…
Category: Sex Crimes
Violent crime and its aftermath are difficult for any society to come to grips with, especially when the offenders are juveniles (legally speaking, children). In 2016, juveniles between the ages of 12-17 committed 182,000 violent crimes in the United States.…
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