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…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
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…
Aug.29
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Drug Manufacturing | Federal Criminal Law
Twenty-five states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S. territories (Guam and Puerto Rico) have all adopted medical marijuana laws. Polls in individual states show support for medical marijuana laws reaching as high as 90 percent; and, according to…
Aug.12
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Internet Sex Crimes
In 1984, the U.S. Congress established the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The organization was reauthorized by the Congress and the President in 2013 with $40 million in government funding. The group calls itself a “private, non-profit…
Aug.08
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Cyber Crimes | Federal Criminal Law
The computer network of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was recently hacked into by cyber criminals. National media outlets have reported that federal officials tried to warn the DNC months before the intrusion about a potential breach and the group…
Aug.06
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
In March of 2015, Neftali Avarez-Nunez (“Nunez”) was arrested in Catano, Puerto Rico. The arrest came after the police observed Nunez discarding a weapon outside a bar. The police retrieved and examined the handgun. It was loaded, fitted with an…
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