The events of January 2, 2021 will go down in history as one of the nation’s darkest hours. Six months later arrest of individuals involved in the Capitol insurrection Capitol are beginning to work their way through the court system…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
2021
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Tampering with Consumer Products
Who would think that pizza dough could lead to federal charges?
Well, as it turns out, when you tamper with consumer products, the federal government takes it very seriously.
Last year, a man pled guilty to tampering with…
2021
Category: Civil Disorder | Federal Criminal Law
Protests and other forms civil disobedience have been in the news lately. When such events result in property damage or injuries to other people, suspects have increasingly been subject to federal civil disorder charges.
This past May a Pennsylvania…
2021
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Interstate Communication Crimes
Text messaging is now the preferred of communication for most people in the world today.
In America, federal laws have scrambled to keep pace with this rapid progression in daily communications.
Text messaging has changed the landscape in…
2021
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Conviction of a crime can bring prison time and stiff fines but there are collateral consequences that can have a permanent impact on your life.
Collateral consequences may be difficult to quantify, but they most assuredly should not be…
2020
Category: Federal Criminal Law | grand jury
Federal criminal investigations may start in different ways. They often begin when a federal law enforcement agency, such as the FBI, receives information about criminal wrongdoing from a victim of a crime or a witness who knows a crime. The…
2020
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Protesting
Protests have sprung across the United States in response to the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis Police custody. Most of these protests have been peaceful, but a few have been marred by rioting and looting.
This has…
2020
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
Interfere with federal drug crime investigations and you may become the subject of an investigation yourself.
At least, that’s what happened to one paralegal specialist working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Antonio recently.
After allegedly tipping…
2020
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
On June 1, 2020, peaceful protesters assembled across the street from the White House in Lafayette Park to protest the killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers. The protesters had assembled peacefully in the park as they had…
2020
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law | federal Sentencing
The term “in the interests of justice” is difficult to define precisely. Prosecutors, attorneys, and judges all have a different perspective of what serves the interests of justice.
On May 7, 2020, U.S. Attorney General William Barr invoked the “interests…