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Category: Criminal Law | Drug Trafficking | Police Misconduct
A “fog line” is a white (usually bright) line painted on the right side of a roadway separating the roadway from what is known as an “improved shoulder.”
Under Texas law, Transportation Code § 545.058(a), an operator of a…
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 Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
More than two decades ago Pace Law School professor Bennett L. Gershman observed in a scholarly law review article that “rules of evidence are designed to bring about just and informed decisions. One of these rules, the hearsay rule, is…
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.
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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: 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…
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