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Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
The U.S. Justice Department has studied, and found, that a majority of the nation’s incarcerated offenders have experienced some type of physical or sexual abuse and/or neglect. This was certainly the case with Byron Neil Antone.
The now 41-year-old Antone…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
The National Registry of Exonerations reported on February 4, 2014 that last year was a “record-breaking year for exonerations (87) in the United States.”
It is hard to say whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Law is a matter of interpretation. Courts are the venue of interpretation. Law is defined when judicial interpretations circuitously traverse the legal landscape to reach a common conclusion.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals did just that in a…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Terrorism Criminology
Pratheepan Thavaraja is a Sri Lankan native. He was the principal procurement officer for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (“LTTE”)—a group founded in 1976 dedicated to establishing an independent state for the island’s Tamil minority.
LTTE was labeled a…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
Are Federal Sentencing Guideline Substantively Unreasonable in Child Pornography Cases?
In July 2011, Thomas King was indicted by a Federal grand jury in Maine for possessing a computer storing child pornography—a criminal violation under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (a)…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
Federal drugs laws are stiff. That’s the way Congress wanted it. One of the stiffest drug penalties is found in 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) which requires a 20-year minimum sentence if the drug distribution results in death.
Last year the…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
On January 27, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a significant decision in a drug death case. A little statutory background is in order.
The original Controlled Substance Act (CSA) was passed in 1970 as part of the Comprehensive…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
Dylan Farrow’s “open letter” accusations of sexual abuse against Woody Allen in the February 1 edition of the New York Times awakened the proverbial sleeping dog. As we said in a previous post, we don’t know who’s lying in this…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Daniel Pelletier is a delusional informant well-known to the Derry, New Hampshire Police Department. In the several years leading up to 2010, Pelletier had contacted the department on “numerous occasions.” On one occasion he claimed he was cheated out of…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals deals with a wide range of exceptionally difficult cases: terrorism, organized crime, white-collar crime, and a host of run-of-the mill criminal cases.
In a January 17, 2014 decision, United States v. Clark, Judge Jon…
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