Category Archives: Criminal Law

Justice Department Should Investigate Bad Prosecutors

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) monitors lawless local police departments and state prisons across the country – and there are plenty of them in…

Lawsuit Against Use of Police Attack Dog in Routine Arrest Gets Court Approval to Proceed

While there are no statistics readily available, police K-9 apprehensions number in the tens of thousands each year. Excessive police force claims tend to…

Top 4 Ways Federal Criminal Defense Differs from State Defense

There are actually 52 court systems in the United States: the 50 state systems, the federal system, and the local court system in the…

Black Lives Movement Does Matter

The current presidential election campaign has awakened the racial divide in this country. And it’s not a pretty sight. The latest example of this…

DWI: Should It Be a Crime to Refuse Blood and Breath Testing?

Currently pending before the Supreme Court are consolidated cases from Minnesota and North Dakota—under the title of Birchfield v. North Dakota—that could significantly change…

The Demand for Bail Reform Gains Traction

You know there is a need for “reform” when all sides of the political spectrum join forces in demanding it. The staggering expense of…

Denial of Bail Offends Presumption of innocence, Forces Pleas and Leads to Jail Deaths

We recently posted a piece about bail which is an essential component of our criminal justice system but which is too often abused by those in…

Two Systems of Justice: Black and White

The recent dust up between former President Bill Clinton and the activist from Black Lives Matter raised the serious, and quite relevant, question about…

JUNK SCIENCE: BITE MARK EVIDENCE CALLED INTO QUESTION

This past February the Texas Forensic Science Commission (TFSC) recommended that Texas courts discontinue allowing prosecutors to introduce bite mark evidence in criminal trials…

DA Exposed for Picking All-White Juries in Wharton County

Keeping African Americans off juries in criminal case is not a new phenomenon. In fact, currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court is the case of…

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