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Category: Appeals | Constitutional Law | Drug Crime
It was an issue of first impression for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA): whether a college dorm room is an exception to the guarantee of the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.
This issue was resolved…
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than half of the jail population in the U.S. has never been convicted of a crime. That’s some 420,000 people, give or take a few thousand. They are in jail because they…
Category: Constitutional Law | Federal Criminal Law
The federal courts have on occasion pointed out that the immunity found in the Supremacy Clause is a “seldom litigated corner” of constitutional law. Supremacy Clause immunity governs the extent to which states can impose civil or criminal liability on…
Category: Constitutional Law | Sexual Assault
Racial bias and jury decision-making is fraught with many unanswered questions. We know it exists but too what extent remains a vast unknown. Most studies focus on the issue of race in the jury selection process or the influence a…
Category: Constitutional Law
During his January 20th Inaugural Address, President Donald Trump vowed to eradicate “radical Islam” from “the face of the Earth.”
Islam is a universally recognized religion that is roughly 1500 years old. While the ACLU reports that the U.S.…
Category: Constitutional Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced recently that he will conduct an ethics investigation into the handling of Hillary Clinton’s email investigation by FBI Director James B. Comey and the Justice Department.
The conservative Wall Street Journal…
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Justice Reform
This past September the Texas Fair Defense Project, the law firm of Susan Godfrey (Houston), and the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, Equal Justice Under Law, filed a class action civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Houston challenging…
Category: Constitutional Law
American history is pockmarked with countless episodes of racial and religious discrimination.
City Upon the Hill
As Americans, we are fond of perpetuating our own storybook myth, beginning with the pilgrims in 1620 and followed by the Puritans,…
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