The Mueller report is arguably one of the most meticulously outlined sets of facts by an appointed Special Counsel. The report was put together by Mueller, and a team of highly skilled former federal prosecutors, who understood that, despite the…
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
Criminal Jurisdiction:
A Criminal Law Blog from a Defense Perspective
2019
The United States is indeed facing an asylum crisis.
The American Immigration Council defines asylum as a “protection granted to foreign nationals already in the United States or at the border who meet the international law definition of a…
2019
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sex Trafficking
Backpage.com has been a notorious source for serious sex crimes, including the prostitution of minors and sex trafficking across state borders. The site was shut down in April, but many of the criminal cases involving Backpage remain active, including the…
2019
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The State of Nevada stands poised to become the 34th state to pass legislation providing for compensation to those wrongfully convicted of crimes. Nevada’s epiphany came after Fred Steese was exonerated in 2012 after spending more than two decades in…
2019
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law
Article 37.07 § 3(a) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure has long been considered one of the guiding principles concerning the admissibility of evidence during the penalty phase in a felony case. This article allows the state to offer…
2019
Category: Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
Between 1997 and 2010, according to a report by Families Against Mandatory Minimums (“FAMM”), sentences in child pornography cases increased by 500 percent. That report surveyed judges across the country and found that seventy percent of them believed that the…
2019
Category: grand jury
We recently made this observation about justice following three controversial rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year: “Justice is dispensed, and laws are interpreted, by the Court today based more on ideology than on prior precedent with legitimate…
2019
Category: Corporate Fraud | Fraud
The race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination is approaching a record number of candidates, Each candidate will be proposing legislation and plans for the nation’s criminal justice system—something we all should study.
Take, for example, criminal justice proposals…
2019
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | RICO
After a 31-month investigation spanning three countries and seven cities, “Operation Wrecking Ball” has yielded a 43-count indictment against 47 suspects in custody to date.
Given heightened public concern about opiates and the partisan political war being waged over…
2019
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has completed his 22-month investigation into whether the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump conspired with representatives of the Russian government in a coordinated effort to secure the presidency for Trump.
Reputable media outlets…