During the four-year term of President Donald J. Trump, 893 Black Americans were killed by police officers. Most of the involved officers were white. Black Americans were killed by police at a rate twice that of White Americans. Many of…
Author: John Floyd
2021
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Brutality
Imagine your nine-year-old daughter handcuffed in the back seat of a police car. Now imagine she was having a mental crisis and was pepper-sprayed by officers called to the scene for assistance, while confined in the back seat of the…
2021
Category: Criminal Law | Jury Selection
In the Constitution of the United States, the Sixth Amendment guarantees many protections for those accused of crimes, including the right to have your case heard by an impartial jury. The Texas State Constitution also codifies this right for every…
2021
Category: Juvenile Criminal Law
There are two justice systems in this country: One for adults and the other for juveniles. There are times, with certain crimes come into play, that these two justice systems intersect.
A recent example is a 15-year-old boy in…
2021
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
On May 25, 2020, as the nation was coming to grips with the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a cellphone video emerged documenting Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating the life out of George Floyd during a brutal chokehold that lasted eight-minute…
2021
Category: Spoofing | Wire Fraud
Email scams are perpetrated by bad actors that attempt to take your money. Some of these scams are successful because of the techniques used, but they’re serious offenses that can land perpetrators in legal hot water.
Take the example…
2021
Category: Corruption | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In service to his client, President Donald J. Trump, New York-based attorney Rudy Giuliani has openly boasted about the lengths he would go to support his client. Mr. Giuliani has admitted lying for the President, working with Russian intelligence operatives …
2021
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
On December 22, 2020, a 19-year white veteran of the Columbus Police Department—44-year-old Adam Coy—shot and killed a 47-year-old African-American man named Andre’ Maurice Hill in his own garage. Coy and a fellow officer had responded to a 911 “non-emergency”…
2021
Category: Corruption | Criminal Law
The January 6, 2021, violent assault on the nation’s Capitol Building—a day that will forever be etched in shame in American history, was created, supported, instigated, and led by Trump Republicans, including the racist President himself.
These Republicans, like Sens.…
2021
Category: bail reform | Criminal Justice Reform
Since 2016, there have been five lawsuits filed in federal courts in Texas alleging equal protection and procedural due process violations concerning bail practices in Houston, Dallas, and Galveston.
As we reported in an August 2019 post, the Fifth Circuit…