President Trump’s abrupt firing of former FBI Director James Comey, and its related political fallout, has dominated the news cycle over the last week or so. This intense political coverage has overshadowed other significant executive actions taken by the president.…
Author: John Floyd
2017
Category: Healthcare Fraud
Both were prominent members of their communities—the Florida doctor and the New Jersey U.S. Senator.
The doctor most assuredly and the senator more than likely will soon be inmates in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Earlier this month,…
2017
Category: Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The wheels of justice turn inexorably slow, but they do turn.
The day of justice reckoning has arrived for John Jackson, a former district attorney and district judge in Navarro County that encompasses the small Texas town, Corsicana.…
2017
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than half of the jail population in the U.S. has never been convicted of a crime. That’s some 420,000 people, give or take a few thousand. They are in jail because they…
2017
Category: Constitutional Law | Federal Criminal Law
The federal courts have on occasion pointed out that the immunity found in the Supremacy Clause is a “seldom litigated corner” of constitutional law. Supremacy Clause immunity governs the extent to which states can impose civil or criminal liability on…
2017
Category: Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
Legal scholars and sources, such as Black’s Law Dictionary, provide two definitions of a mistrial: first, a trial is brought to an end by the judge before a determination on the merits has been made because a procedural error or…
2017
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law
Fines and restitution may be imposed following a criminal conviction in conjunction with the sentence imposed.
Fines are commonly imposed in all criminal cases. The amount that may be imposed is generally determined by statute or at the discretion…
2017
Category: Drug Crime | Immigration Crimes | White Collar Crime
It should come as no surprise that the current U.S. Justice Department is giving immigration and drug crimes a higher priority for prosecution than white collar crimes. White collar crime generally involves upwardly mobile people in the financial community…
2017
Category: Drug Trafficking | federal Sentencing
Federal judges retire, not as frequently as other government and private sector employees but eventually they do leave the bench, one way or the other. The ABA Journal reports that federal judges, like many other retirees, retire because they can…
2017
Category: Appeals | Cyber Crimes | Drug Trafficking | Murder
On April 12, 2017, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that Article I, Section 9 of the Texas Constitution does not provide broader privacy rights than the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The case involves G. Jerard…