On average, 94 percent of all state felony convictions are the result of guilty pleas. Texas most assuredly falls within this range.
On January 12, 2012, Sandra Coy Briggs entered a plea of no contest to intoxication manslaughter of…
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On average, 94 percent of all state felony convictions are the result of guilty pleas. Texas most assuredly falls within this range.
On January 12, 2012, Sandra Coy Briggs entered a plea of no contest to intoxication manslaughter of…
Category: Indecency With A Child | Sex Crimes
In December 2015, it took a Bowie County jury less than an hour for find 33-year-old Joshua Jacobs guilty of the aggravated sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl the year before. District Court Judge Bobby Lockhart sentenced Jacobs to the…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
All 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Territories, and recognized Native American tribes must maintain sex offender registries.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), there were 859,500 registered sex offenders in the United…
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s September 27, 2018 appearance before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has raised serious questions about his temperament to be a Justice on the highest court in the land.
Kavanaugh’s appearance before the…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault
Manhattan federal prosecutors recently opened an investigation into the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. This is in addition to the sex crime charges he currently faces in state courts in New York, Los Angeles, and London.
The investigation began…
The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a criminal defendant with seven rights, three of which concern the right to a trial—right to a speedy trial, right to a public trial, and right to an impartial jury.
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Category: Immigration Crimes
Public outrage may have forced the Trump administration to cease separating immigrant children from their parents, but the administration’s “zero tolerance” policies remain in place—policies that have a detrimental impact on non-citizens and citizens alike.
Touted by the president…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
On August 28, 2018, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a police excessive force case that will not please the law enforcement community.
Given today’s divisive political climate, the political makeup of the three-judge panel…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
In a November 2016 post, we made this observation about the vanishing trial in the federal court system:
“ … it’s behind closed doors where U.S. Attorneys lean hard on criminal defense attorneys to advise their clients that a…
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption
With the recent guilty plea of former President Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, and his agreement to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the legal debate about whether a sitting president…