Last month when speaking before a law enforcement group in New York, President Trump suggested that police engage in a more physical, brutal approach when making an arrest. It was a call for “police brutality”—an indiscriminate use of excessive force.…
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
Criminal Jurisdiction:
A Criminal Law Blog from a Defense Perspective
2017
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The son a district court judge in San Antonio, Nicholas “Nico” LaHood set his eyes on the District Attorney’s Office not long after leaving law school. He always wanted to be the top cop in Bexar County.
In 2010,…
2017
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
Oil was first discovered in Texas in the early 1900s. The industry it created has influenced and shape the state’s economy ever since. Boon to bust, or bust to boon.
Since 1920, the Permian Basin in West Texas…
2017
Category: Uncategorized
Sex crimes, especially sex crimes committed against children, are viewed by the court and general public as especially heinous, reflected by the severe criminal penalties these offenses mandate.
This past month in East Texas’s Anderson County, Stephyn Prine,…
2017
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and is the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She recently published an exhaustive article about prosecutorial misconduct in the Times Magazine.…
2017
Category: Constitutional Law | Internet Sex Crimes
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children reports that there are roughly 747,000 registered sex offenders in the United States. The Parents for Megan’s Law says that more than 46,000 of these offenders are registered in Texas.
Over…
2017
Category: Drug Distribution | Drug Trafficking | Forfeiture
On June 5, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant decision, Honeycutt v. United States, that limits the ability of the government to collect criminal asset forfeiture in drug conspiracy cases.
The Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984, codified…
2017
The King can pardon for any reason or for no reason at all.
The U.S. Constitution became the official governing document of the United States of America on June 21, 1788.
Art. II, § 2, cl. 1 of…
2017
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Trafficking
It has been called the “world oldest profession” – prostitution. Whether that is true or not, prostitution has exhibited longevity, if nothing else. This creates one abiding rule: the more people the world inhabits, the more prostitutes there will be…
2017
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
President Donald Trump does not like to be investigated. But Trump’s behavior, and that of his campaign throughout the 2016 presidential election cycle, as well as the president’s behavior during his first six months in office, necessitate, even demand, criminal…