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Category: Drug Crime | Immigration Crimes | White Collar Crime
It should come as no surprise that the current U.S. Justice Department is giving immigration and drug crimes a higher priority for prosecution than white collar crimes. White collar crime generally involves upwardly mobile people in the financial community…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Smuggling
Drug smuggling is difficult and quite frequently hazardous, especially when illegal drugs are being moved across the border. Drug smugglers are regularly challenged to find new ways of moving their smuggled cargo past security checkpoints or drug dogs.
Sometimes…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
Drug trafficking criminal enterprises are difficult to penetrate, disrupt, and produce significant arrests. Law enforcement authorities may need months – or even years – to round up the leaders and major players in the enterprise, even when their reach…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Drug Crime
“Guilty” does not always mean actual guilt, especially in drug cases involving African-American defendants who elect to plead guilty in the Harris County Criminal Justice Center.
African Americans 5 Times as Likely to be Wrongfully Convicted
A March…
Category: Appeals | Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
Vehicle traffic stops that lead to drug seizures pose a continuing problem for the courts to deal with. This is especially so in speeding cases.
Law enforcement stopping drivers of speeding vehicles has increasingly resulted in seizures of marijuana,…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
In response to the legalization of medical and recreational use of marijuana at the state level, the Obama administration through its Justice Department announced it would not pursue the enforcement of federal marijuana laws over the legalization of the drug…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is President Trump’s next choice to be this nation U.S. Attorney General. As a former attorney general for the State of Alabama and a federal judge nominee, Republican lawmakers and other Sessions supporters believe he is…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
The National Hockey League realized last year that it has a growing problem with increased drug use by its players. The league met with the NHL Players Association to add cocaine and similar drugs to its banned substance list. NHL…
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
Is executive clemency an effective way to deal with harsh sentencing in non-violent drug cases?
The Obama administration thinks so.
In 1994, the U.S. Justice Department expanded the criteria for clemency to reflect the Obama administration’s desire allow…
Category: Drug Crime
Federal drug sentencing is simultaneously difficult and unfair. Roughly half of the federal prison population today are drug offenders—most serving mandatory minimum sentences.
Why so many offenders in one crime category?
The answer: the 1982 political declaration of…
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