Many people in Texas sometimes find themselves each year to be unwitting victims of identity
theft, leading to damages that potentially leave people in financial ruin.
A recent case in Texas illustrates just how far some people will go.
A…
2022
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Many people in Texas sometimes find themselves each year to be unwitting victims of identity
theft, leading to damages that potentially leave people in financial ruin.
A recent case in Texas illustrates just how far some people will go.
A…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Justice is kaleidoscopic. Its definition generates a myriad of concepts, none of which are precise and definitive.
But the case of Adnan Syed offers a timeline of injustice inflicted by the massive power of the State.
The Syed saga began…
Federal criminal charges can be complicated – not simply because of the seriousness of charge, but the process involved from investigation to indictment. The federal process is much different when compared to the process.
Central to the federal criminal process…
There’s been much discussion in the media recently about federal search warrants. When many people hear this phrase, they wonder if a search by the federal government is as serious as it sounds. Can the FBI simply show up at…
Category: bail reform | Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
In current reelection campaign ads, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tries to bolster his artificial “law-and-order” bona fides with assertions that he stopped dangerous criminal predators from being released from jail through a “cashless” bail system. The campaign ad is vintage…
Category: Police Misconduct | Qualified Immunity
In the early morning of August 20, 2022, a Columbus, Ohio, police officer named Ricky Anderson, along with two other white officers, entered the residence of a 20-year-old Black man named Donovan Lewis. The officers were present to serve an…
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides five distinct procedural safeguards for those accused of a crime and to secure life, liberty, and property. Those safeguards are:
right to grand jury indictment for capital or infamous crime;
double jeopardy,…
Hate crimes are increasing in America—as much as 44 percent in major cities.
Like the hate crime in Texas that got a 21-year-old man sentenced for 25 years behind bars.
His crime?
Attacking an Asian family in a…
Marijuana remains illegal in Texas, but hemp is legal. This can create confusion with Texans about which products are legal and which are not, especially with the emergence of hemp-derived products like Delta 8.
To avoid inadvertently breaking the law…
Category: Constitutional Law | Federal Criminal Law
The right to counsel originates from the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. However, the original draft of the Constitution did not contain the Sixth Amendment or any other amendments that guaranteed individual rights.
Although a fine blueprint for a…