Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Deputy who Slaughtered Two Dogs will Pay the Price
Bruno, the pit bull, was killed by a police officer responding to a domestic dispute at the home of the dog’s owners. Bruno’s best…
The Politics of Crime Solves Nothing
Crime has always been and will remain a hot-button political issue. Misinformation, misrepresentations, and outright lies have become the cornerstone of American politics at…
Texas’ War on Juveniles And Other Youthful Offenders
Texas has a national and international reputation for maintaining an assembly-line death penalty operation, imposing insanely long prison sentences (e.g., 40 life sentences plus…
Constitutional Rule of Law Disobeyed by Extremist Attorney General
Missouri is a right-leaning state where the constitutional rule of law is too often usurped by the conservative political views of its public officeholders.…
Execution of Ramiro Gonzales Illustrates Fallacy of Future Dangerousness
If a jury convicts a defendant of capital murder in Texas, state law requires the trial court to conduct a separate sentencing proceeding before…
Exonerations and Wrongful Convictions: Texas Leads Nation in Sex Crimes Exonerations
In the May 31, 2024 edition of The Wrongful Conviction Law Review (Vol. 5, No. 1), two distinguished experts in psychology, Matthew Barry Johnson…
U.S. Supreme Court Curtails Use of Safety Valve to Avoid Federal Mandatory Minimums
In a complicated and convoluted March 15, 2024 decision,Pulsifer v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals’ interpretation…
Right to Counsel Reaffirmed, Still in Crosshairs of Supreme Court
The American Bar Association list Gideon V. Wainwright (1963) as one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “landmark“ decisions. Gideon held that States must provide…
U.S. Sentencing Commission Removes “Acquittals” From Relevant Conduct
On April 14, 2024, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) unanimously voted to pass a package of federal sentencing reforms dealing with acquitted conduct…
Time for Change of Leadership at the Harris County DA’s Office
Kim Ogg, once hailed as the “reform darling” in Texas Democratic political circles after she ousted Republican control of the Harris County District Attorney’s…
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