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Category: Federal Criminal Law | Internet Sex Crimes
In 1984, the U.S. Congress established the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The organization was reauthorized by the Congress and the President in 2013 with $40 million in government funding. The group calls itself a “private, non-profit…
Category: Drug Crime
Federal drug sentencing is simultaneously difficult and unfair. Roughly half of the federal prison population today are drug offenders—most serving mandatory minimum sentences.
Why so many offenders in one crime category?
The answer: the 1982 political declaration of…
Category: Cyber Crimes | Federal Criminal Law
The computer network of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was recently hacked into by cyber criminals. National media outlets have reported that federal officials tried to warn the DNC months before the intrusion about a potential breach and the group…
Category: Criminal Law | Sexual Abuse
In 2012, a judge in Sacramento placed a 17-year-old rape victim in juvenile detention because she failed to appear in court on two occasions to testify against the suspected 37-year-old serial rapist who abducted and raped her.
Incarcerating Victims…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
In March of 2015, Neftali Avarez-Nunez (“Nunez”) was arrested in Catano, Puerto Rico. The arrest came after the police observed Nunez discarding a weapon outside a bar. The police retrieved and examined the handgun. It was loaded, fitted with an…
Category: Immigration Crimes
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reports that prosecution for immigration-related crimes was down in June 2016 by 17.7 percent over the previous month. There were 5537 new immigration prosecutions in the month of June.
When all the numbers…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct | Sex Crimes | Sexual Abuse
The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded 1855 exonerations to date. Roughly 15 percent of them involved false sexual assault cases. DNA exonerations in the sexual assault cases reveal a much higher percentage of wrongful convictions.
Rape is a…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
There is this rule of law—dating back to 1932 when the U.S. Supreme Court first pronounced it—that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits multiple punishments for the same criminal offense.
Double Jeopardy
The double jeopardy…
Category: Cyber Crimes | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
Police love them. They are called Stingrays—surveillance devices that can deceive a criminal suspect’s cell phone into revealing its location.
The ACLU has combined a list of 66 law enforcement agencies in 24 states and the District of Columbia…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
Sentencing is a vital component of the federal criminal trial process. It demands fairness, impartiality, and justification by the judge imposing the sentence following a determination of guilt.
84 Month Guideline Sentence
Billy J. Robinson, Jr. was a…
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