In August 2017, Willie Nash was arrested on misdemeanor charges and placed in the Newton County Jail in Decatur, Mississippi. Nash was in possession of a cellphone at the time of his arrest. During the booking process, jailers either didn’t…
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
Criminal Jurisdiction:
A Criminal Law Blog from a Defense Perspective
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
Twenty-two condemned men were put to death in the U.S. in 2019. All but two of the executions were carried out in former Confederate States of America.
Southern states, especially those with historical ties to the Confederacy, have always…
2020
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption
As has become crystal clear, “not guilty” is not equivalent to “innocent” in the politics of impeachment.
In a series of rambling, disparaging tweets against Democrats and a litany of sophomoric public statements directed against House managers, President Donald…
2020
The Center for the Victims of Torture (CVT) reports that despite the immediate physical and psychological pain and suffering caused by torture, the real purpose of torture “is to break an individual’s will and render them helpless, destroy a sense…
2020
The infamous Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is currently standing trial in a New York Supreme Court on sexual assault allegations: one involving a woman who said Weinstein raped her in a Manhattan hotel in 2013 and another woman who said…
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
Since the U.S. Supreme Court gave its constitutional blessing to the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, the state of Arkansas has executed 30 males and 1 female. Thirty of those 31 executions were carried out by lethal injections…
2020
Category: Appeals
The justice system isn’t always perfect. Although endowed with numerous procedural protections and safeguards, trial of criminal cases can, and often do, result in unfair verdicts. Jury biases, police misconduct, and/or prosecutorial misconduct can skew the facts against the defendant…
2020
A number of La Joya, Texas officials have been under law enforcement’s microscope recently, and as a result, several public officials in the town have all been implicated in possible wrongdoing..
The city’s primary administrator, the school superintendent, a…
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Murder
Seven inmates escaped from the John B. Connally prison facility near Kenedy, Texas in December 2000. They became known as the “Texas Seven.”
Eleven days after their escape, the men robbed a sporting goods store in Irving, Texas. Local…
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Winona, a town of slightly more than 5,000 people, sits right in the center of the northern part of Mississippi. It is known as the “Crossroads of North Mississippi” located in Montgomery County.
The town reflects what award-winning author…