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Typically, sex offenses are charged and handled at the state level – but not always. The federal government has jurisdiction to assume prosecutorial control over many any criminal case. There are, however, certain specific elements that can move a sex…
Category: Criminal Law | Guns
In April 2021, Shanea Lynn Reeder was arrested in Wheeler County for unlawful possession of a firearm. The arrest followed a consent-to-search of Reeder’s vehicle, during which a handgun was found. Knowing that Reeder had a prior drug offense, he…
Category: SCOTUS
Clarence Thomas became an associate justice of the Supreme Court in October 1991. Former President George H.W. Bush appointed him to the Court to replace retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall, one of the most revered justices to ever sit on the…
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
King George III was the King of Great Britain at the time of the American Revolutionary War—a successful war fought by English colonists determined to be free from the King’s rule. At the time of the war, the British people…
Category: Death Penalty
Texas takes pride in its perception of being a God-fearing state. It also takes pride in its law-and-order image, sporting bona fides as the State with the most executions since 1976, when the nation’s moratorium on the death penalty came…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
If a jury convicts a defendant of capital murder in Texas, state law requires the trial court to conduct a separate sentencing proceeding before that same jury. This proceeding is generally referred to as the “sentencing phase” of the trial.…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Sex Crimes Against Children
In the May 31, 2024 edition of The Wrongful Conviction Law Review (Vol. 5, No. 1), two distinguished experts in psychology, Matthew Barry Johnson and Janquel D. Acevedo, published an article titled, ‘Sex Assaults,’ False Guilty Pleas, Stranger Rape With…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Federal Criminal Law | Federal Sentencing
In a complicated and convoluted March 15, 2024 decision, Pulsifer v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals’ interpretation of the federal sentencing scheme’s “safety valve“ provisions—an interpretation that ensures continued restrictions on their…
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Justice Reform | SCOTUS
The American Bar Association list Gideon V. Wainwright (1963) as one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “landmark“ decisions. Gideon held that States must provide criminal defendants charged with serious crimes with an attorney if they cannot afford one. A serious…
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
Enacted in 2007 as part of the Texas Legislature’s package of child sex offenses known as “Jessica’s Law” (mandatory minimum sentencing for certain child sex offenses, lifetime parole restrictions following offender release, lifetime sex offender registration, and restrictions about residency,…
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