The COVID 19 pandemic (“pandemic”) taught the American criminal justice system one thing: the nation’s cash bail system is a for-profit practice that has nothing to do with public safety. …
Month: June 2022
June18
2022
2022
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
17-year-old high school student Trayvon Martin was murdered in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012. Seventeen months later, his killer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted. In response to this travesty of justice, three Black organizers created the social movement known as…
June12
2022
2022
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
The National Registry of Exonerations announced on March 15, 2022, that 33 of the 45 exonerations announced in February involved people falsely accused of crimes by former Chicago police Detective Ronald Watts and the team of officers he supervised. This…
June12
2022
2022
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law | Guns | Uncategorized
This past February, Houston’s city officials allocated 44 million dollars to combat increasing violence in the state’s largest city. At a news conference announcing the allocation of the violence-fighting funds, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner stated:
“Violent crime is a public…
June09
2022
2022
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Federal Criminal Law
There is a mistaken belief sometimes that you are convicted of a crime and serve your sentence, then you will have paid your debt to society – and that’s the end of it. But that is far from the end.…
June05
2022
2022
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty | Prosecutorial Misconduct
After her November 2016 election as district attorney of Harris County, Kim Ogg said she would reduce the use of the death penalty with all its racial discrimination and unfairness.
Five and one-half years into the Ogg administration has taught…
June05
2022
2022
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
There has always been, and will always be, a legion of rogue criminal prosecutors who, with tunnel vision to win at all cost, kill innocent people through the power of the state.
That is not hyperbole. It is an indisputable,…
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