The federal judicial system has a perverse way of treating similarly situated criminal defendants in shameful disparate ways. For example, a federal drug defendant…
Federal courts are loathed to reverse a criminal conviction for technical statutory violations. This was evidenced in the January 21, 2016 decision by the Eighth Circuit…
Several years ago we posted a piece about the FBI seizing and continuing to run a child pornography website between November 16, 2012 and December 2,…
Americans over the past five or six decades have been lulled into believing white collar crime—crimes committed by the affluent or large companies (fraud,…
Most people have not heard of the former Toronto broker George Georgiou who was convicted in February 2010 on one count of conspiracy, four…
There’s no question that Des Moines, Iowa resident David Anthony Tumea had serious mental health problems in 2012. There is also no question that…
Ivan Garcia-Lopez probably wishes he had taken his meal somewhere else on the evening February 5, 2014. He was living in a single-wide trailer…
Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip M. Stinson is recognized as probably the nation’s best authority on police misconduct. Over a ten-year period, beginning in 2005,…
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The official website for DHS says its mission is “to…
In 1996, Congress enacted the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA). The Act is codified as amended in 18 U.S.C. § 3563A. This statute requires…
Fields marked with an * are required
"*" indicates required fields