Federal bank robbery has always been a serious offense. The Supreme Court just made it significantly more serious. In a January 13, 2015 decision, Whitfield v. United States, the Court sharply defined an enhancement penalty provision under the bank robbery…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
2015
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Federal Prosecutors Conjure the “Beast,” Sec. 666, in Anti-Corruption Witch Hunts
Corruption, or at least the widespread appearance of it, has caused a vast majority of Americans to lose faith in their government and public institutions. A 2011 Gallup…
2015
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Uncategorized
White collar criminal investigations now typically involve evidence recovered from computers or from devices that store digital information. Often the value of this evidence is overstated by federal agents who may not have thorough understanding of computer forensics. Therefore, in…
2014
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…
2014
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…
2014
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…
2014
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…
2014
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…
2014
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…
2014
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…