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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
Last month, on the heels of a string of high-profile police killings, the nation again witnessed two fatal police shootings: one in El Cajon, California and the other in Charlotte, North Carolina. Both fatal encounters triggered street protests and acts…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Internet Sex Crimes
The FBI has a sordid history of being cavalier about the Constitutional protections guaranteed the people of this country, a reputation that lingers since the days of J. Edgar Hoover. This famed “crime-fighter” believed a citizen’s constitutional protections, especially to…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
The Harris County Jail (“Jail”) houses more than 9,000 inmates and is the third largest jail in the country. We have previously stated the human shortcomings of this facility. In particular, we have discussed the prospect of those dying from…
Category: Criminal Law
The Houston Chronicle carried a recent report that the Harris County District Attorney’s Office had dismissed 90 misdemeanor and felony drug cases because a local Constable’s Office “improperly destroyed evidence.”
The evidence destruction was brought to light when attorney…
Category: Money Laundering | White Collar Crime
Money laundering did not become illegal in the U.S. until 1986 when Congress passed the Money Laundering Control Act. This federal law made it easy to prosecute because it removed individual intent and the limits of money involved.
Money…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
From arrest to incarceration, the nation’s criminal justice system is flawed with disparities-the poor and racial minorities bearing the brunt of the inequities. This injustice can readily be seen in the way the federal and state governments administer its bail…
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
The state of Texas has many dubious distinctions. It leads the nation as being the “worst” or near the bottom of the “worst” in many categories, like being the worst in nursing home care. But one of the state’s more…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
Prosecutorial, police and expert witness misconduct are a blight on the nation’s adversarial criminal trial process.
The ideal purpose of a criminal trial should be a search for truth and justice, but given the overwhelming competing interests in the…
Category: Drug Manufacturing | Federal Criminal Law
Twenty-five states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S. territories (Guam and Puerto Rico) have all adopted medical marijuana laws. Polls in individual states show support for medical marijuana laws reaching as high as 90 percent; and, according to…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
The Harris County Jail (HCJ)is the third largest jail in the United States, and the largest in the State of Texas. It houses roughly 9,000 inmates, nearly 7,000 of whom are pretrial detainees, of which close to 80 percent are…
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