The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 249, was enacted as Division E of the National Defense Act for Fiscal Year 2010. More commonly known as the federal hate…
Author: Staff Writer
2015
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
The U.S. Congress has used mandatory minimum sentences since it first enacted federal penal crimes. The 1790 Crimes Act created 23 federal crimes, seven of which carried a mandatory death sentence. Three of those crimes—treason, murder and piracy—still carry the…
2015
Online dating is now a $2 billion industry. More than 49 million in the U.S. have tried online dating, each customer spending nearly $250 a year for the service.
But there are pitfalls and perils in what Berrien County,…
2015
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
There are significant misconceptions about federal crimes. Many people assume that federal crimes are only “white collar” or “national security” type offenses. Nothing could be further from the truth. Approximately 55% of all federal prisoners, more than 30,000 of them,…