Omar Mateen’s shooting rampage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida on September 14, 2016 left 49 people dead and another 53 seriously injured. The New York Times called the mass shooting “the worst terrorist attack on American soil since…
Author: John Floyd
2018
Category: Bitcoin | Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Money Laundering
The term “money laundering” was first used at the turn of the 20th Century. It was a label used against organizations who took income derived from illegal activity and washed it into the flow of legal money in the general…
2018
In 1996, Congress enacted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”) which expedited habeas corpus appeals by state death penalty inmates. AEDPA was designed to eliminate the delays which had thwarted states from carrying out speedy executions…
2018
The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino reports that hate crimes increased by roughly 20 percent in the 13 largest U.S. cities in 2017 compared to 2016.
Hate Crimes Against…
2018
Category: Cyber Crimes
The state of Texas wards off tens of thousands of cyberattacks each day. Where are they coming from? Who are they targeting?
Many automated computers and hackers attempt to steal confidential data from Texas citizens, companies, and government databases.…
2018
Category: Child Abuse | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
A sex offender’s conviction is overturned because a Texas judge decided to administer electric shocks to him.
What happened?
The details are too surreal to be made up.
In 2014, Terry Lee Morris, 54, was convicted for…
2018
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School.
That Dershowitz is a brilliant legal scholar is not in dispute. He has demonstrated that brilliance in courtrooms defending some of the nation’s most…
2018
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
Qualified Immunity, Unauthorized Use of Excessive Force by Police
Conway is the county seat of Faulkner County located in central Arkansas. The city’s police department has 127 sworn officers to protect and serve the 65,000 people living in Conway.…
2018
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
The Guardian reported in December 2015 that 1,134 black men were killed by the police in the United States of America that year—a rate five times higher than the number of white men killed by the police during the same…
2018
Category: Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform | Federal Criminal Law
It started out as a kids’ game sometime after 2003: Mexican kids, some of whom were teenagers, are known to gather at concrete culverts marking the shortest span and the shallowest point of the Rio Grande River, separating the U.S.…