Rule 403 of the Texas Rules of Evidence provides that a court may exclude evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by a danger of one or more of the following: unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, misleading the jury,…
Category: Crimes Against Children
May27
2024
2024
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Crimes Against Children | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sexual Assault
Outcry testimony is frequently used in child sexual abuse cases in Texas. For years, the statutory procedural rules governing outcry testimony have worked like this: Tex. Code of Crim. Proc. art. 38.072(b) §2(a)(1), (2) carved out an exception to the…
May27
2024
2024
Posted By: John Floyd
More than four decades ago, the First District Court of Appeals, based in Houston, defined an extraneous offense as: “… any act or misconduct, whether resulting in prosecution or not, which is not shown in the charging instrument and which …
Nov.26
2022
2022
Posted By: John Floyd
On October 5, 2022, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the two convictions of Stoyan Anastassov for the second-degree felony of indecency with a child by contact. The jury assessed punishment at nine years in prison on one charge,…
Oct.30
2021
2021
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Crimes Against Children | Sex Crimes Against Children
Michael Charles Hill was convicted by a Hunt County, Texas jury in April 2012 for aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child. He was sentenced to consecutive(stacked) life terms. A grand jury had indicted Hill in…
June30
2021
2021
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Crimes Against Children | Criminal Law | Sex Crimes | Sexual Abuse
Following the horrendous kidnapping and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005, Florida enacted Jessica’s Law. The statute was intended to create tough penalties for sex offenders, such as 25-year minimum sentences for certain offenses and a lifetime of electronic…
Mar.12
2021
2021
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Crimes Against Children | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
The larger general population views crimes against children as particularly egregious in society. With so many children exploring the internet on a daily basis (and too often without parental supervision), child sex offenders see the internet as a portal to…
Nov.12
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Crimes Against Children | Human Trafficking | Sex Trafficking
Child trafficking happens in places least likely to come to mind, including Texas. In fact, it’s a crime that is on the rise in this state and across the nation.
Recently, a human trafficking sting in Beaumont resulted in…
Sep.10
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Crimes Against Children | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
Being charged with an offense such as possession of child pornography or invasive visual recording in Texas is a big deal. If convicted of either offense, it will have serious ramifications for the rest of a person’s life.
In…
June25
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Corruption | Crimes Against Children | Criminal Justice Reform
The Flores Settlement Agreement is a 1997 court settlement that places limits on the length of time in which migrant children can be held in detention and defines the conditions under which these children are incarcerated.
President Trump’s administration…
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