Category Archives: Federal Criminal Law
Lawmakers and Federal Judges Seek Relief for Defendants Sentenced Unjustly
The federal judicial system has a perverse way of treating similarly situated criminal defendants in shameful disparate ways. For example, a federal drug defendant…
Failure to Give Notice of Warrant Excused by Appeals Court
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…
FBI in the Child Pornography Business Again
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,…
Corporations Continue to Escape Criminal Liability
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,…
Fraud Case Draws Attention to Prosecutors’ Failure to Disclose Favorable Evidence
Most people have not heard of the former Toronto broker George Georgiou who was convicted in February 2010 on one count of conspiracy, four…
Locked Up for Being Sick: Mentally Ill Man Sentenced 8 Years in Federal Prison for Firearms Violations
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…
Pretense Protective Sweep between Mattress and Box Spring Leads to Firearms Conviction
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…
Corrupt Police Office Found Guilty of Distributing Marijuana, Making False Statements, Sentenced to One Month?
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,…
Possession of Child Erotica Insufficient to Provide Probable Cause for Search
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The official website for DHS says its mission is “to…
Government’s Ability to Garnish Accounts for Restitution Limited to Amount of Payments Past Due
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…
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