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Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
A recent South Texas drug case involving multiple defendants illustrates the workings of concurrent/consecutive sentencing. The five defendants convicted in the case, including on drug trafficking charges, were sentenced to serve some of their sentences currently while others were ordered…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Immigration Crimes | Sex Crimes | Uncategorized
Many different types of crimes fall under federal laws, a vast majority of which tend to fall into just a few categories.
How so? Take a look at the numbers.
In 2016, nearly 68,000 federal cases resulted in…
Category: Appeals | Drug Crime
Diddy’s Sports Bar in Houston has what the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) described as “a well-documented history of narcotics sales.”
But does that mean a patron who enters the bar, stays a few minutes before leaving is…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Distribution | Drug Manufacturing
A huge proportion of drug manufacturing is conducted by cartels and other large networks of criminals. However, individuals may also participate in drug manufacture and cultivation – sometimes in surprisingly big quantities.
For example, a Louisiana couple was recently…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | Medicare/Medicaid Fraud
The numbers are indeed alarming.
100 million Americans live with chronic pain. It is the most common cause of long-term disability in this country. Pain affects more people in the U.S. than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined.
…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
Since becoming the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions has continually misrepresented to the American public that the nation is facing a violent crime wave that poses a threat to our national security.
At the 63rd Biennial Conference of…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
Oil was first discovered in Texas in the early 1900s. The industry it created has influenced and shape the state’s economy ever since. Boon to bust, or bust to boon.
Since 1920, the Permian Basin in West Texas…
Category: Drug Crime | Marijuana
President Ronald Reagan’s “war on drugs” failed as miserably as President Richard Nixon’s “war on crime.” The only measurement of success for either effort was to pack the nation’s prison system with young and non-violent offenders of color and low…
Most people would assume that the rule of law is drawn by the rules of logic and fairness. That assumption is both logical and fair, but the rule of law—with its most fundamental purpose being to protect society and ensure…
Category: Appeals | Constitutional Law | Drug Crime
It was an issue of first impression for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA): whether a college dorm room is an exception to the guarantee of the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.
This issue was resolved…
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