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Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
In a 1976 Valparaiso Law Review article, “Historical Developments of the Interrelationship of Unanimous Verdicts and Reasonable Doubt,” Anthony A. Morano noted that in pre-colonial America, English law “required that jurors be kept together incommunicado during deliberations, without food, drink,…
Category: Computer Crime | Constitutional Law
Court Continue to Struggle with Cell Phone and Right to Privacy
Once considered a sacred cow, individual privacy has succumbed to governmental interference, especially in the area of how law enforcement cell phone technology to track and apprehend criminal…
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform
Marzieh Hashemi is natural born citizen of the United States. She was born in New Orleans in 1959 and given her American name, Melanie Franklin. Wikipedia entries state that she was reared in an African-American Christian family in Louisiana.
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Category: Constitutional Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the position of the Attorney General of the United States. The Organization, Mission and Functions Manual of the U.S. Department of Justice spells out the duties of the Attorney General:
Represent the United…
Category: Constitutional Law | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes Against Children
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are collectively known as the Bill Rights. These original amendments guaranteed 8 rights to criminal defendants facing prosecution by the federal government. They are:
Protection against unreasonable search and seizure;
Grand…
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…
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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With the recent guilty plea of former President Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, and his agreement to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the legal debate about whether a sitting president…
Category: Constitutional Law | Police Misconduct
The militarization of law enforcement in the United States began in earnest in 1990 when Congress enacted Section 1208 of the National Defense Authorization A(“Act”) which authorized the nation’s Defense Department to transfer surplus military equipment (such as small arms…
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
Earlier this year we posted an article about a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld much of a federal district court ruling that dismantled the antiquated Harris County bail system. We made this observation in that post:
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