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Category: Crimes Against Children | Criminal Law | Sex Crimes | Sexual Abuse
Following the horrendous kidnapping and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005, Florida enacted Jessica’s Law. The statute was intended to create tough penalties for sex offenders, such as 25-year minimum sentences for certain offenses and a lifetime of electronic…
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
Article 38.072 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure—more commonly known as the “outcry” statute—is thorny legal terrain in child sex cases.
The statute was enacted in 1985 as an exception to the longstanding prohibition against hearsay testimony in…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The National Registry of Exonerations (“NRE”) is a combined project of the University of Michigan Law School, Michigan State University College of Law, and the University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society. “The Registry collects, analyzes, and…
Category: bail reform | Criminal Justice Reform
Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott does not like the constitutional right to bail.
Under Article 1, Section 11 of the Texas Constitution’s Bill of Rights, “all prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offenses, when the proof is…
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sexual Assault
The rules of evidence generally prohibit the use of crimes, wrongs, or other bad acts to prove a person’s character to show that a person acted accordingly on a particular occasion. This rule assures that the person accused is tried…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Interstate Communication Crimes
Text messaging is now the preferred of communication for most people in the world today.
In America, federal laws have scrambled to keep pace with this rapid progression in daily communications.
Text messaging has changed the landscape in…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct | Uncategorized
Justice delayed is indeed justice denied. Lamar Johnson has seen justice delayed for more than a quarter of a century, and to this day and in the foreseeable future, he will experience justice denied.
In October 1994, Marcus Byrd and…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
Qualified immunity is a judicial doctrine created in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court. This doctrine provides public officials—most notably law enforcement officers—with a shield of protection from civil liability as long as their conduct does not violate a clearly…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
When you hear the term “drug trafficking”, it probably conjures images of El Chapo or Pablo Escobar. And while you’re not wrong, you don’t have to be head of a world-famous crime syndicate to be charged with drug trafficking in…
Category: Human Trafficking | Sex Crimes | Sex Trafficking
It’s unfortunate that sex trafficking stories exist, much less sensational big stories implicating people in the federal government involved in the sex trafficking of teens. Such a story has gripped the national headlines now for weeks.
In Orlando, a…
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