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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
Some of the facts in the fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith in December 2011 by former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley are not in dispute.
On December 20, 2011, Stockley and his partner Brian Bianchi witnessed a…
Category: Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
Moments before he took his own life in a Massachusetts prison this past April, former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was a convicted murderer. The moment life passed from his body in that maximum security cell, he became an innocent man.…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Murder
Texas has more than its share of bad drivers. One of its cities, San Antonio, ranks in the top ten among the nation’s most dangerous drivers.
In 2016, there were 3,773 traffic fatalities in Texas, according to the Texas…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The landmark decision Brady v. Maryland was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963. The decision held that, under the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments, a prosecutor has a duty to disclose favorable evidence to defendants upon request, if…
Category: Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law | SCOTUS
President Trump’s abrupt firing of former FBI Director James Comey, and its related political fallout, has dominated the news cycle over the last week or so. This intense political coverage has overshadowed other significant executive actions taken by the president.…
Category: Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The wheels of justice turn inexorably slow, but they do turn.
The day of justice reckoning has arrived for John Jackson, a former district attorney and district judge in Navarro County that encompasses the small Texas town, Corsicana.…
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: Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
Legal scholars and sources, such as Black’s Law Dictionary, provide two definitions of a mistrial: first, a trial is brought to an end by the judge before a determination on the merits has been made because a procedural error or…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law
Fines and restitution may be imposed following a criminal conviction in conjunction with the sentence imposed.
Fines are commonly imposed in all criminal cases. The amount that may be imposed is generally determined by statute or at the discretion…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law
In most states, people convicted of crimes pay fines, restitution, court costs and other fees. Most states will refund this money should the criminal conviction be reversed. Colorado does not.
Under Colorado law, a formerly convicted person can get…
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