The IRS estimates that nearly 17% of taxpayers fail to comply with the tax code, but that less than 1% is actually ever convicted of a tax crime. Service industry employees whose income is mostly derived from tips and other…
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
Criminal Jurisdiction:
A Criminal Law Blog from a Defense Perspective
2019
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform
Marzieh Hashemi is natural born citizen of the United States. She was born in New Orleans in 1959 and given her American name, Melanie Franklin. Wikipedia entries state that she was reared in an African-American Christian family in Louisiana.
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2019
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Organized Crime | RICO
Changes in organized crime laws dramatically altered the day federal prosecutors tried to not only disrupt but shutdown Mafia chieftains. They were forced to try multiple mob-related crimes individually, making it virtually impossible to shut down entire criminal organizations. Racketeering…
2019
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
The impending February 28, 2019 execution date for 70-year-old Texas condemned inmate Billie Coble underscores the issue of the nation’s aging death row population. According to the Texas Tribune, there were 224 inmates housed on Texas’s death row as of…
2019
As President Donald J. Trump takes his demand for a “border wall” to extreme limits, ranchers and private property owners in the path of that proposed wall worry about the government’s dictatorial right to seize their land and property through…
2019
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
In 2008, Blaine Milam and Jessica Carson were 18-year-old teenagers living together in Milam’s trailer in Rusk County, Texas. Jessica had a 13-month-old child named Amora Carson. The couple met earlier that year while Jessica was still in high school.…
2019
Category: Capital Crimes | Treason
What do you think of when you hear the words “capital crime”?
Most people in the Lone Star State probably think murder. After all, capital charges are reserved for only the most serious of offenses.
However, there are…
2019
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
The recent, and longest, government shutdown has focused public attention on claims by President Donald Trump and his Wall proponents that crime is not only a major problem but is actually out of control along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Both…
2019
There was a time in this country in the not too distant past when there was a difference between illegal immigration and asylum. President Trump is not fond of either. He and his administration have done everything possible, both legal…
2019
Category: Appeals | DWI | Homicide/Murder
In the early morning hours on Christmas Eve, 2014, there was a horrific car accident in El Paso, Texas. According to news reports, local police believed that Joel Garcia was both intoxicated and speeding when he ran a red light…