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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Drug Trafficking
U.S Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions was an intimate component of a presidential campaign built on promises—some 663 of them. The administration is at an Indy 500 pace to break most, if not all, of them.
Attorney General Sessions…
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 Distribution | Drug Trafficking | Forfeiture
On June 5, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant decision, Honeycutt v. United States, that limits the ability of the government to collect criminal asset forfeiture in drug conspiracy cases.
The Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984, codified…
Category: Drug Distribution | Drug Trafficking
The Department of Justice has finite resources.
Beginning in 2013 and continuing through 2016, the DOJ adhered to its Smart on Crime Initiative designed to focus prosecution in drug cases on high-level traffickers. The stated goal of this prosecution…
Category: Drug Smuggling | Drug Trafficking
The Government can proceed against an individual in two ways: either against the individual “personally” known as “in personam” or against their property known as “in rem.”
The latter is known as civil forfeiture.
During the first two…
Category: Drug Trafficking | Prosecutorial Misconduct
On June 26, 2017, the Boston Globe carried a report about a Springfield, Massachusetts judge who vacated several drug convictions because of misconduct by two former state prosecutors involved in the drug cases.
Judge Richard J. Carey of Hampden…
Category: Drug Trafficking | federal Sentencing
Federal judges retire, not as frequently as other government and private sector employees but eventually they do leave the bench, one way or the other. The ABA Journal reports that federal judges, like many other retirees, retire because they can…
Category: Appeals | Cyber Crimes | Drug Trafficking | Murder
On April 12, 2017, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that Article I, Section 9 of the Texas Constitution does not provide broader privacy rights than the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The case involves G. Jerard…
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: Appeals | Drug Trafficking | federal Sentencing
A federal plea agreement is a binding contract between the U.S. Government and a criminal defendant. It is sometimes proffered but more often than not is the result of negotiations between Assistant U.S. Attorneys and criminal defense attorneys.
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