Category: Drug Crime

 
The Supreme Court has given us another reminder of why individuals should never consent to anything when approached by law enforcement conducting investigations.
 
Police all too often look for reasons to extend a legitimate traffic stop to allow…

Kentucky is often a state of distinction for the wrong reasons. It ranks in the top ten of the two of the worst categories: corruption and meth labs. Both categories lend support to each other. The Kentucky States Police reported…

In January 2012 the Texas Department of Public Safety realized it had a major problem with one of its employees—a forensic scientist named Jonathan Salvador who had been employed with the agency for six years. He was assigned to the…

It has been hailed by privacy rights activists and legal scholars as the most significant U.S. Supreme Court decision in the “digital age.” The decision was handed down on June 25 in the case David Leon Riley v. California. The…

PRESENCE OF “NARCO SAINT” LEADS TO DRUG CONVICTIONS
 
At the turn of the 20th century, Jesus Malverde was a Mexican bandit who roamed the hills of the state of Sinaloa, and as legend has it, stole from the rich…

To be successful at crime often requires good sense and even better luck.
 
Puerto Rico resident Jose Luis Bobadilla-Pagan (“Bobadilla”) is undeniable evidence of this point. The First Circuit Court of Appeals in a March 28, 2014 decision upholding…

The prestigious Cato Institute, with its National Police Misconduct Statistics and Report Project (NPMSRP), tracks police misconduct on a daily and annual basis. And there is a lot of misconduct to track. In the institute’s 2010 statistical report, which compiled…

This was a “novel question” the Third Circuit Court of Appeals answered on March 12, 2014 in the case of Jose Ortiz-Vega (“Ortiz”) who was convicted and given 108 months’ imprisonment for crack cocaine offenses. This sentence was imposed on…

An integral, increasingly non-negotiable component of any federal plea agreement requires that the defendant waive his right to appeal or collaterally attack his conviction or sentence. Federal appellate courts favor such waivers, as it saves the government and judiciary time…