According to the Identity Theft Fraud Study released by Javelin Strategy and Research, more people were victimized by identity theft in 2016 than in 2015 but at lower costs. In 2015, 12.7 million people lost $16 billion to identity theft…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Dec.27
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
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…
Dec.23
2016
2016
Posted By: Staff Writer
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Violent Crimes
Edgar Maddison Welch was a resident of North Carolina. In early December, he drove to Washington, D.C. where he walked into a pizzeria known as Comet Ping Pong. He was armed with an assault rifle. A fake news story had…
Nov.28
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Election 2016 | Federal Criminal Law | Fraud
Had our country elected Hillary Clinton, it would have made history. She would have been the first female president ever in the United States.
However, by electing Donald Trump, the country faced another moment in history: the first president…
Nov.23
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court in Katz v. United States announced a series of exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. One of those exceptions is the “plain view” evidence exception; i.e., the police may seize items of contraband…
Nov.22
2016
2016
Posted By: Staff Writer
Category: Cyber Crimes | Federal Criminal Law
Computer crimes arrived on the legal landscape in the early 1980s. Law enforcement had relatively few criminal statutes under which to pursue investigations involving computers and wrongdoing. The only statutes then available were the federal wire and mail fraud statutes…
Nov.22
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Federal Criminal Law
All judges, especially those at the federal level, must be careful about what they say either in public or during official judicial forums. U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge John Primono forgot this rule of professional conduct on November 18, 2016…
Nov.21
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Federal Criminal Law | federal Sentencing
Attorneys who regularly represent clients in federal court understand one disturbing trend—U.S. attorneys are doggedly trying to force criminal trials to a point of extinction. It can be said that many criminal defendants are, in fact, guilty and their admissions…
Oct.27
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Federal Aviation Crime | Federal Criminal Law
After the iPhone 7’s newest features were announced, the world of smartphones quickly turned its attention to Samsung’s Galaxy Note7. Unfortunately, that attention wasn’t for the reasons that Samsung had hoped.
Why?
It seems that in its rush…
Sep.27
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Internet Sex Crimes
The FBI has a sordid history of being cavalier about the Constitutional protections guaranteed the people of this country, a reputation that lingers since the days of J. Edgar Hoover. This famed “crime-fighter” believed a citizen’s constitutional protections, especially to…
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