A pandemic brings out the best in most people and the worst in some.
In 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic, Oklahoma City public health Commissioner John Duke was determined to save as many people as possible from the flu…
Apr.27
2020
2020
Category: Uncategorized
Feb.07
2020
2020
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Uncategorized
Insider trading takes place quite frequently in the stock market. Anyone, from an everyday investor to a CEO of a successful company, can and do engage in the illegal activity.
However, prior to the current year, insider trading was…
Nov.03
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Uncategorized
Many legal scholars believe that closing arguments are rightly considered the most important phase in a criminal trial. It is the last opportunity defense counsel will have to tip the scale in their favor. Defense attorneys approach closing in different…
July30
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty | Uncategorized
In a July 25, 2019 press release, the U.S. Justice Department (“DOJ”) announced that Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to adopt a Proposed Addendum Federal Execution Protocol—a protocol that mirrors the protocols followed…
July10
2018
2018
Michael Selyem is the Deputy District Attorney in San Bernardino County, California. He is the county’s “chief gang prosecutor.”
Selyem, a white man, is currently on paid administrative leave at the direction of San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike…
Jan.04
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Immigration Crimes | Sex Crimes | Uncategorized
Many different types of crimes fall under federal laws, a vast majority of which tend to fall into just a few categories.
How so? Take a look at the numbers.
In 2016, nearly 68,000 federal cases resulted in…
Oct.19
2017
2017
Posted By: Staff Writer
Category: Uncategorized
With an end of DACA, the Trump administration has turned its attention to undocumented immigration enforcement: increasing the use of private prisons in Texas to house detained undocumented immigrants, targeting businesses that hire undocumented immigrants, and a litany of other…
Aug.26
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Domestic Terrorism | terrorism | Uncategorized
According to PolitiFact, the U.S. government’s Extremists Crime Database reveals that between September 12, 2001 and December 31, 2016, there were 85 deadly attacks committed in this country by violent extremists resulting in 225 deaths.
Far-Right Violent Extremist Accountable…
Aug.08
2017
2017
Posted By: Staff Writer
Category: Uncategorized
Sex crimes, especially sex crimes committed against children, are viewed by the court and general public as especially heinous, reflected by the severe criminal penalties these offenses mandate.
This past month in East Texas’s Anderson County, Stephyn Prine,…
Aug.25
2016
2016
Posted By: Staff Writer
Category: Uncategorized | Welfare Fraud | White Collar Crime
Fraud and waste are unfortunate components of all government assistance programs. In fact, fourteen government assistance programs in 2014 alone lost $663.8 billion to fraud. Improper welfare payments, and fraud, represented a staggering $59.6 billion of that loss—a sum greater…
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