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Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
Owners of a renowned Dallas-based “headshop” (a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia for the consumption of cannabis and/or tobacco), the Gas Pipe, were recently acquitted of drug trafficking charges after being accused of directly contributing to what was dubbed…
Voir dire—French for “to speak the truth”—is the first opportunity a defense attorney has to interact with the jury directly in a criminal case. The second and final opportunity will be their closing argument. Everything else between the two are…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
The release of thousands of unjustly jailed citizens, an end to solitary confinement, a ban on private prisons, and raising the bar on prosecutorial accountability are all important criminal justice reforms gaining traction on the 2020 campaign trail.
However,…
Category: Bribery | Federal Criminal Law
Businessman Greg Linberg owns an investment firm as well as a third-party company that manages insurance and reinsurance agencies in North Carolina. He is also reportedly a significant Republican campaign contributor.
Currently, he is accused of bribing a public…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Politics
Recent media reports that a whistleblower complaint involving President Trump may not only change the political landscape of the 2020 presidential election campaign but pose serious impeachment risks to the president for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
As The Washington…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2003, three men were indicted for capital murder in connection with the April 3rd murders of two people during an attempted robbery of a Harris County business, ACE America’s Cash Express. One of the victims was an employee at…
Category: Immigration Crimes
When Roland Gramajo invited Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to a town-hall meeting about federal immigration raids, he hoped to assuage the community’s fears surrounding ICE.
“He just wanted to get the word across to the Latino community…
Category: Constitutional Law
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh knows a thing or two about impeachment.
After graduating from Yale College as a “cum laude” undergraduate in 1987 and from Yale Laws School in 1990, Justice Kavanaugh began his legal career as…
Texas executed its first prisoner with a single dose of pentobarbital on July 18, 2012. His name was Yokamon Hearn. He was 19 years old when he and three co-defendants kidnapped and killed a man in Dallas, Texas. He was…
The nation’s bail bonds industry is a $2 billion-plus enterprise—an enterprise that in many respects borders on being criminal. The wealth of the industry is, and has historically been, built on the backs of poor people (most often people of…
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