The Violence Against Women Act of 1994(“VAWA”) is a remedial statute that contains specific categories of compensable losses. The VAWA was codified in 18 U.S.C. § 2259. The statute has been used in recent years by adults, who were victimized…
Author: John Floyd
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
When she was eight and nine years old, Amy was repeatedly sexually abused by her uncle. The uncle photographed the abuse and uploaded the images on the Internet. In the late 1990s, law enforcement officials traced the images back to…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Divorce estimates vary in the U.S. It is safe to say that between 950,000 to 1.2 million occur in this country each year—an average of about 2500 a day. This means there are a lot of unhappy and angry people…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
The only evidence that linked Debra Milke to the death of her four-year-old son, Christopher, during her 1990 capital murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona was the testimony of a Police Detective Armando Saldate. He testified that Ms. Milke confessed to…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
(Editor’s Note: Please do not contact us if you are seeking a pardon of restoration of rights to possess firearms. We do not do that type of legal work. We are a criminal defense law firm and represent individuals charged…
2013
Category: Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law | Guns | Uncategorized
(Editor’s Note: Please do not contact us if you are seeking representation to restore your gun rights or to obtain a pardon. We do not do that kind of legal work. We will not give advice or answer questions about…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
In a recent post about prosecutorial misconduct, we opened with this question: Why do some prosecutors engage in misconduct? The Answer: Because they can.
Why? Prosecutors have little, if any, concern that they will be punished, personally or professionally, or…
2013
Category: Uncategorized
In a previous post, we discussed the harsh penalties associated with the use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense under the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924.
A statutory…
2013
GUNS, DRUGS AND VIOLENCE
The John T. Law Firm frequently represents clients who have used a firearm during the commission of a crime. We often receive queries from the general public about the federal law governing these offenses, what…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
There is prosecutorial misconduct, and then there is egregious, intentional prosecutorial misconduct. The misconduct that former Galveston County Assistant District Attorney Jon Hall engaged in the case of Joshua Bledsoe was egregious.
In a July 20 post, Grits for…