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: Sex Crimes
2014
Category: Sex Crimes
Deferred Adjudication is Conviction for Federal Sex Registration Purposes
Article 42.12, § 3d(a) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure provides: “When in its opinion the best interest of society, and the defendant will be served, the court may,…
2014
In a February 1, 2014 “Open Letter” to the New York Times, the adopted daughter of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, Dylan Farrow, reignited a media firestorm with the allegation that she was sexually abused by Allen when she was…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
US Court of Appeals finds extreme police conduct, circumstances of search and length of interview place suspect in custody and trigger Miranda
Child pornography is one of the most demonized crimes in our criminal justice system. The popular public…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
Richard Roosevelt Bahr, Jr. is an admitted sex offender. In 2003, he was convicted in Wasco County, Oregon of third-degree rape—a Class C felony with a person under 16 years of age. He was given a six-year term followed by…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
The State of Texas has made it easier to convict individuals charged with sex crimes against children by allowing evidence of completely unrelated bad acts to be admissible at trial. While the rest of the Country seems concerned about preventing…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994(“VAWA”) is a remedial statute that contains specific categories of compensable losses. The VAWA was codified in 18 U.S.C. § 2259. The statute has been used in recent years by adults, who were victimized…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
When she was eight and nine years old, Amy was repeatedly sexually abused by her uncle. The uncle photographed the abuse and uploaded the images on the Internet. In the late 1990s, law enforcement officials traced the images back to…
2013
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
When the James “Whitey” Bulger scandal broke in the 1990s, FBI faced the daunting, perhaps, insurmountable task of repairing the damage caused to its image by this murderous informant and his corrupt FBI handler. But as so often has happened…
2012
Category: Sex Crimes
Texas Finds Out-Patient Treatment More Effective than Indefinite Detention
By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
Former President George W. Bush in July 2006 signed into law the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act (“Walsh…