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…
Category: Appeals
Dec.08
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Drug Distribution | Drug Trafficking
Federal/state drug task forces were established in the United States in the early 1970s. The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act institutionalized the DEA Task Force Program which has led to thousands of joint federal/state task forces being established in every state…
Dec.02
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Capital Crimes
The capital murder case of Roberto Moreno Ramos is extraordinary—not because of the crime that sent him to his death on November 14, 2018 in hands Texas death chamber but rather because of the international attention his case attracted.
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Nov.30
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law
In October 2013 Terri Regina Lang was shopping at an HEB store in Burnet County, Texas. She was observed by a store employee taking unpaid-for-items and placing them in a reusable shopping bag tied to her cart. When Lang went…
Nov.04
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Foreign Corrupt Practices
The federal government’s case against Dr. Silvia Beatriz Perez-Ceballos collapsed completely on October 30, 2018 when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed her conspiracy to commit bank fraud conviction.
The Perez case is one that never should have…
Oct.24
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Constitutional Law | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes Against Children
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant the right to counsel at every critical stage of the proceedings against him or her, including the physical presence of counsel during trial.
This fundamental constitutional principle does…
Sep.30
2018
2018
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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Aug.29
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
There are several indisputable core facts about the case of Susan Mellen.
First, the burned body of Rick Daly was found near a dumpster in San Pedro, California on July 21, 1997. Anonymous tips to the Los Angeles…
Aug.20
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Drug Trafficking
Raymond Baker was convicted in December 2015 in U.S. district court in the Northern District of New York for conspiracy to distribute drugs. Several weeks after the conviction a juror sent Baker’s attorney an email making two allegations of misconduct…
July29
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Appeals | Federal Criminal Law
Ten years ago John Edward Schostag pled guilty in a U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to 120 months in a federal penal facility and to five…
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