Category Archives: Criminal Law
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Hot Over New Forensic Science Writ
New criminal laws are enacted by the legislative branch of government. Some create new offenses with proscribed penalties. Others are remedial in nature, creating…
Corporations Continue to Escape Criminal Liability
Americans over the past five or six decades have been lulled into believing white collar crime—crimes committed by the affluent or large companies (fraud,…
Police Detectives in False Confession Case Can be Sued
Four detectives (Joe Ryan Hartley, Ryan Wolff, Mike Duffy, and Heather Mykes) and one investigator (Michael Dickson) conducted an investigation into a 2009 burglary…
Pretense Protective Sweep between Mattress and Box Spring Leads to Firearms Conviction
Ivan Garcia-Lopez probably wishes he had taken his meal somewhere else on the evening February 5, 2014. He was living in a single-wide trailer…
“Porngate” – More than Just a Pennsylvania Judicial Scandal
Political scandals tend to always have a sordid beginning. That is the nature of the “porngate” scandal currently rocking Pennsylvania’s judicial and political systems…
Corrupt Police Office Found Guilty of Distributing Marijuana, Making False Statements, Sentenced to One Month?
Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip M. Stinson is recognized as probably the nation’s best authority on police misconduct. Over a ten-year period, beginning in 2005,…
Evidence Suppressed After Appeals Court Finds Cops Intentionally Lied About Existence of Search Warrant
In May 2013, Marguita Wills lived Charleston, West Virginia. She had a male companion named Kenneth Rush living with her in her apartment. He had been…
Prosecutor Banned from Court! Texas Disciplinary Rules Require Disclosure of Favorable Evidence Regardless of Materiality
William Allen Schultz, a Denton County prosecutor, has been banned from appearing in a state district court after the court found he purposefully withheld…
Loquan McDonald Executed by Police
There is an ever growing “hazy border” between excessive and acceptable use of deadly force by law enforcement. This reality is demonstrated by the…
NON-U.S. CITIZENS MISTREATED IN FEDERAL FOR-PROFIT PRISONS
Calls for “prison reform” are now coming from every political corridor. The reason is obvious: American taxpayers cannot continue to bear the exorbitant costs…
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