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Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
All 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Territories, and recognized Native American tribes must maintain sex offender registries.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), there were 859,500 registered sex offenders in the United…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault
Manhattan federal prosecutors recently opened an investigation into the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. This is in addition to the sex crime charges he currently faces in state courts in New York, Los Angeles, and London.
The investigation began…
Category: Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
It has been reported in multiple news sources and case law that roughly 97 percent of all federal criminal defendants plead guilty. The overwhelming majority of these pleas are the product of an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Like…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Racketeering | RICO
Eight members of the MS-13 gang were recently indicted in Texas on racketeering charges including racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder in aid of racketeering, assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering,…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has classified or scheduled drugs, as well as some of their precursors, into categories depending on the drug’s potential for abuse and accepted medical use. In theory, this effort is made to keep potentially dangerous…
Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
The core federal drug statute is 21 U.S.C. § 841. This statute focuses exclusively on the manufacture, distribution, dispensation, or possession of a “controlled substance.” The statute has little, if any, interest in the personal use of narcotics. It is…
Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
Two years ago the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said that a prosecutor’s role “is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.”
In their too often misguided zeal to secure convictions, prosecutors will…
Category: Appeals | Federal Criminal Law
Ten years ago John Edward Schostag pled guilty in a U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to 120 months in a federal penal facility and to five…
Category: Drug Distribution | Federal Criminal Law
Drug conspiracy trials are often complex, much more difficult to defend against than they are to prosecute. The prosecution need only show that two or more people agreed to commit an illegal act associated with illicit drug possession, distribution or…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
A sex crime is defined any form of sexual assault, sexual misconduct, illegal pornography, or unlawful sexual behavior. These offenses generally face serious prosecution at both the state and federal level. This is especially so in Texas and at the…
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