Pretrial discovery in criminal cases in Texas is governed by Article 39.14 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. The Texas Legislature enacted the discovery statute in 1965. The essential purpose of the rule was to enforce the strict duty…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
Jan.12
2021
2021
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Corruption | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In service to his client, President Donald J. Trump, New York-based attorney Rudy Giuliani has openly boasted about the lengths he would go to support his client. Mr. Giuliani has admitted lying for the President, working with Russian intelligence operatives …
Oct.30
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Corruption | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In a June 4, 2020 post, we called for the impeachment of U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr because of his role in the government’s criminal assault on June 1, 2020, of peaceful George Floyd protesters in Lafayette Park outside…
Oct.29
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Corruption | Prosecutorial Misconduct
We posted an October 20, 2020 piece calling for the resignation of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. We said the attorney general “is not morally, ethically, or legally fit to hold public office in the Lone Star State. He is…
Sep.30
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Corruption | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Williamson County District Attorney Shawn Dick was sworn into office on January 1, 2017. He immediately faced daunting challenges. The three district attorneys before him (Jane Duty, John Bradley, and Ken Anderson) all had serious problems with confirmed instances of…
Sep.15
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct | SCOTUS
Curtis Flowers was tried six times for the murders of four people in the small northern Mississippi town of Winona. The murders at the local Tardy Furniture Store occurred on July 16, 1996. The 26-year-old African-American Flowers was arrested for…
Aug.12
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, there have been 2,647 exonerations of people wrongfully convicted in this country since 1989.
There have been thousands more recognized through appellate reversals of convictions. Worse yet, there have even more that have…
Aug.07
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
In August 2013, Greg Kelley, an outstanding football athlete, was arrested on the campus of Leander High School in Leander, Texas, located in Williamson and Travis Counties. He was charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old boy at a daycare center…
June14
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Top officials of the Trump administration, including U.S. Attorney General William Barr, claim there is no “systemic racism” in law enforcement in this country. Yet the conservative Republican group, the Lincoln Project, recently called Trump the “second president” of the…
Feb.29
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
How much should a state be required to pay a person it wrongfully convicts and keeps in prison for 43 years?
The State of Florida wrongfully convicted Nathan Meyers and his uncle, Clifford Williams, for a 1976 murder they…
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