More than 600 people, including doctors, were charged in June with crimes in connection with health care frauds exceeding $2 billion and contributed significantly to the nation’s opioid crisis, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ0. In this post,…
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
Criminal Jurisdiction:
A Criminal Law Blog from a Defense Perspective
2018
Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
Who is responsible for a drug overdose death?
Dubuque, Iowa, the corn capital of the U.S., has a serious drug overdose problem. A local television station reported that through the first eight months of 2016, Dubuque had 23 heroin…
2018
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Distribution | Drug Manufacturing
Drug offenses have become commonplace across most of the United States. As of January 2018, the, the cost of drug use on the nation’s criminal justice system is roughly $61 billion yearly. State and federal prison system are overwhelmed with…
2018
Category: Constitutional Law | Illegal Pornography
For most cellphone owners, the pocket-size device has become their address book, photo album, personal journal, bank account, news source, calendar, social network, and a slew of other services. In a recent ruling, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts…
2018
Michael Selyem is the Deputy District Attorney in San Bernardino County, California. He is the county’s “chief gang prosecutor.”
Selyem, a white man, is currently on paid administrative leave at the direction of San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike…
2018
Category: Immigration Crimes
Just days after defending the policy, Donald Trump recently signed an executive order prohibiting the practice of separating children from their parents seeking entry into the United State. At the time the president signed the order, his administration had no…
2018
History will teach that the Donald Trump presidency was the most corrupt of the nation’s first 45. Eighteen months into Trump’s presidency more than three dozen appointed government officials have resigned or been fired under suspicious clouds of corruption at…
2018
In an overly simplistic analogy, Scholastic.com discussed the U.S. Supreme Court by saying it is “… like a referee on a football field. The Congress, the President, the state police, and other government officials are the players. Some can pass…
2018
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
President Donald J. Trump not only believes he is above the rule of law but, according to the Los Angeles Times, he believes he is the law. This dictatorial disrespect for the law has led the president to flaunt his…
2018
Category: Constitutional Law
During his confirmation for, and swearing in as, an associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch vowed to be a servant to the Constitution. That sworn allegiance does not apply to the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. In…