Two child sexual assault (CSA) cases in Texas offer a glimpse into the varied kinds of cases in which juries must determine guilt or innocence and, most often, punishment as well. The different results reached in each case reflect the…
Category: Child Abuse
July13
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Child Abuse | Corruption
Migrant family separations under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies began in the summer of 2017. Then Homeland Security chief John Kelly was actually one of the original architects of the family separation policy that began percolating in March…
Nov.27
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Child Abuse | Sex Crimes Against Children
The mere allegation of a sex crime against a child carries immediate and lasting consequences:
Arrest
Conviction
Sentence
Fines
Restitution
Imprisonment
Possible civil commitment
Post-imprisonment supervision
Sex offender registration
These consequences do not include probable divorce, lost or…
Nov.26
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Child Abuse | Crimes Against Children
Many crimes can be prosecuted and tried at either the state or federal level. This matters a lot, because the level could have a serious impact on your sentence.
Child abuse, however, is an interesting scenario.
How so?…
Aug.04
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Child Abuse
Mothers who use drugs during pregnancy, and give birth to helpless babies addicted to opiates, are not high on the social ladder and are often viewed with disdain by those inexperienced with drug addiction. The knee-jerk reaction is to punish…
Apr.05
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Child Abuse | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
A sex offender’s conviction is overturned because a Texas judge decided to administer electric shocks to him.
What happened?
The details are too surreal to be made up.
In 2014, Terry Lee Morris, 54, was convicted for…
Dec.21
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Child Abuse
In February 2016, there were two momentous decisions issued affecting the nation’s juvenile justice system. First, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that inmates serving mandatory life sentences for murders they committed when they were juveniles were entitled to either a…
Nov.26
2017
2017
Judges have a sworn duty to be impartial when trying cases, especially criminal cases where life and liberty are at stake and the government bears all burden of proof.
Elia Cornejo Lopez was elected to a criminal court judgeship…
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