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Category: Federal Criminal Law
Entrapment and the widespread use of unreliable snitches are realities that every zealous criminal defense attorney must be on the lookout, lest corrupted, or even worse, fabricated evidence make its way before the jury. Paid snitches are inherently unreliable and…
This site has blogged numerous times about police misconduct in criminal investigations, militarized police departments using heavy-handed tactics to disrupt lawful civil disobedience, police corruption involving “cops on the take” in drug trafficking cases, and police tactical teams killing or…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Defense lawyers know all too well the gut wrenching fear of representing a client they believe is innocent.
We fight zealously for all of our clients and see acquittals in many cases where the state could not prove their…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Tom Price cites the unreasonably high risk of executing an innocent person as one of several compelling reasons that the death penalty should be abolished.
By all reasoned accounts, Scott Panetti is mentally…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Uncategorized
Defense Lawyers often advise against their clients testifying in their own defense. It is typically unnecessary and tends to expose the client to great danger.
Even with an innocent defendant, so much can go wrong: pressured-induced nervousness, bad body…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
When has a sex offender convicted of possessing child pornography paid his debt to society?
It is the natural response upon hearing of children being sexually abused to immediately recoil in fear, disgust and harsh judgment. The question being…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
It is called proactive online policing: law enforcement officials posing as minors, or guardians of minors, on the Internet to catch child sexual predators. Many of these accused predators are prosecuted under federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), although a…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Many Texans have now seen Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott’s ad about his herculean effort to re-build his strength following an accident in 1984 that left him permanently wheelchair bound. The ad depicts Abbott in a sweaty t-shirt…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Socrates once said, “Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to listen wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.”
The federal appellate courts have long recognized that a judge is more than “mere moderator” in federal…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
Probably the most difficult constitutional claim to establish in a federal habeas corpus proceeding is one of “actual innocence.” This premise was reinforced by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on August 19, 2014 in Jones v. Taylor.
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