There’s been much discussion in the media recently about federal search warrants. When many people hear this phrase, they wonder if a search by the federal government is as serious as it sounds. Can the FBI simply show up at…
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There’s been much discussion in the media recently about federal search warrants. When many people hear this phrase, they wonder if a search by the federal government is as serious as it sounds. Can the FBI simply show up at…
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides five distinct procedural safeguards for those accused of a crime and to secure life, liberty, and property. Those safeguards are:
right to grand jury indictment for capital or infamous crime;
double jeopardy,…
Category: Constitutional Law | Federal Criminal Law
The right to counsel originates from the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. However, the original draft of the Constitution did not contain the Sixth Amendment or any other amendments that guaranteed individual rights.
Although a fine blueprint for a…
Category: Corruption | Espionage | Federal Criminal Law
On August 8, 2022, the F.B.I. searched former President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago private club and residence. The search stemmed from efforts by the National Archives and Records Administration to recover classified government documents which remained in Trump’s possession and…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
The search of former President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago private club/residence on August 8, 2022, revealed a trove of classified and top secret documents in his possession. The subsequent revelation by the U.S. Justice Department that the former President is …
In the United States – and in Texas – you are allowed to defend yourself from criminal charges in both state and federal courts. People are facing federal crimes, however, tend to feel overwhelmed. Federal crimes seem as though they’re…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Federal Firearms | Guns
In 2013, a United Arab Emirates citizen named Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif was admitted to the United States through a student visa to attend the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. He was academically dismissed from the institute in…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Fraud
Those who are elected to public office in this country take what is called “an oath of office.”
They are given responsibilities and have the trust of the public that elected them. When they fail
in their responsibilities and break…
Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law | Guns | Uncategorized
This past February, Houston’s city officials allocated 44 million dollars to combat increasing violence in the state’s largest city. At a news conference announcing the allocation of the violence-fighting funds, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner stated:
“Violent crime is a public…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
There is a mistaken belief sometimes that you are convicted of a crime and serve your sentence, then you will have paid your debt to society – and that’s the end of it. But that is far from the end.…