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Law Enforcement Seeks Cell Phone Surveillance in Continued War on Crime; But Who’s Watching Them? …Federal Judges
In an article titled “The Snitch In Your Pocket,” Newsweek Magazine (March 1, 2010) reported that in recent years Federal prosecutors have…
Category: Drug Crime
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair.
How do you save someone determined to destroy himself?
That question will surely be in the mind of most jurors who will ultimately decide the personal and professional…
Probative or Prejudicial: Evidence of Previous Drug Convictions Admitted to Show Proof of Intent in Drug Case
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
We have written recently about the dangers of the use of extraneous…
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas Finds Lawyer’s Careful and Repeated Objections did not Preserve Error
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
Criminal trials are governed by strict rules of evidence and procedures. It…
Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Officials Manipulate Investigations, Defendants Receive Greater Sentences
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
What is sentencing entrapment?
In a syndicated column that appeared in the Houston Chronicle (July 23, 2009),…
Arizona v. Gant, 129 S.Ct. 1710, (2009); Vehicle Searches after Arrest
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
Consider the following hypothetical. Two patrol officers with the Houston Police Department were following a Cadillac in…
20:1 Crack/Powder Ratio Still Flawed; Incarceration of Most Drug Offenders Absurd and Obscene
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
In May 2007 the U.S. Sentencing Commission sent a report to Congress recommending that the 100:1…
Addiction to Pumping Iron and Juicing Leads to Massive Arrests in Houston Area and Ft. Bend County
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
It was billed by raiding law enforcement officials as the “largest…
Moore and Spears: District Courts have Discretion to Reject the 100:1 Crack/Powder Cocaine Ratio
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair
Last October we posted a blog entitled “The Judicial Wars Invoked by Crack Sentencing”…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
The War on Drugs at School vs. Teachers’ Expectation of Privacy
By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
Over the last two months sixteen Houston Independent School District employees, including 11 teachers, have been arrested…
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