The use of snitches in law enforcement is dirty business. This unholy alliance not only injects highly suspect information into the criminal justice system, bought and paid for by our public servants, but it also allows often violent criminals the…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
As criminal defense lawyers we often advise innocent clients to invoke the Fifth Amendment in situations where they might face exposure to criminal allegations. This is especially so when the inquisitor has abandoned neutrality and has jump to a conclusion…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
While surveillance, eavesdropping and spying have become prominent features in the American lexicon over the past several months, they have long been insidious instruments of the criminal justice system. As criminal defense lawyers, we are all to aware the growing…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
As criminal defense attorneys we are completely aware of the flaws in the criminal justice system that lead to wrongful convictions and executions. However, it is the outrageous cost of running the state death machines that is causing serious reconsideration…
2013
We always advise individuals who a potential targets or suspects in criminal investigations to clearly assert their right to remain silent and their right to have a lawyer present during questioning. These are personal rights that must be clearly asserted…
2013
Not Guilty Verdict Fans Discontent Over Disparity in Justice System
Our adversarial system of justice sometimes works. The George Zimmerman demonstrates as much. Prosecutors for the State of Florida and criminal defense attorneys for Zimmerman had a judicial forum,…
2013
More than 90 percent of criminal defendants plead guilty rather than go to trial.
While some of these defendants are innocent and choose to plead guilty rather than face a more severe sentence following a jury guilty verdict,…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
How does the State repay innocence lost? And do the wrongfully convicted forgive the State?
Michael Cosme, Devon Ayers and Carlos Perez were freed from prison in the night hours of January 23, 2013. Eighteen years ago they had been…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Statutes Criminalizing Leaking of Classified Information
We believe strongly, as do most in the defense bar, in the public’s right to know—a right protected by the First Amendment’s freedom of the press. However, our belief is not unequivocal. We…
2013
U.S. Sentencing Commission Report Recommends New Sentencing Factors In Possession of Child Pornography Cases
By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
Who are “passive pedophiles?” These are individuals who possess child pornography. They do not try…