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Category: Domestic Assault
Texas Governor Greg Abbott released his agenda for the special legislative session earlier in July. It had a surprising item on it – family violence prevention.
Governor Abbott wants the lawmakers to back legislation that would require schools across…
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Offender Deregistration | Sex Offender Registry
Being convicted of a sex crime doesn’t just mean you have a criminal history. It also means you will be required to register as a sex offender in Texas and anywhere else you move to if convicted of any of…
Category: HB 1540 | Sex Crimes | Sex Trafficking
On September 1, 2021, a new law will go into effect in the state of Texas that is the first of its kind: House Bill 1540.
This new law makes it a felony to purchase sex in the state.…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | SCOTUS
This past May, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas told the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee that white supremacists are “the greatest domestic security threat” in the United States.
That assertion is welcome but long overdue, given…
Category: bail reform | Criminal Justice Reform
As we have pointed out, the wealth-based cash bail system has an iron-fisted grip in Texas that favors those who can afford to post bail over those who cannot.
However, Texas has a safety valve for people jailed for over…
Category: Criminal Law | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
There are roughly 3,000 certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (“SANEs”) in the United States. SANEs now operate in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. The past decade has seen SANEs become both ubiquitous and controversial in criminal trials…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
The United States carried out seventeen executions during the pandemic year 2020. Seven of those executions were carried out by five states (Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Missouri), while the federal government carried out the remaining ten. Texas led the…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
The events of January 2, 2021 will go down in history as one of the nation’s darkest hours. Six months later arrest of individuals involved in the Capitol insurrection Capitol are beginning to work their way through the court system…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Tampering with Consumer Products
Who would think that pizza dough could lead to federal charges?
Well, as it turns out, when you tamper with consumer products, the federal government takes it very seriously.
Last year, a man pled guilty to tampering with…
Category: Civil Disorder | Federal Criminal Law
Protests and other forms civil disobedience have been in the news lately. When such events result in property damage or injuries to other people, suspects have increasingly been subject to federal civil disorder charges.
This past May a Pennsylvania…
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