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Category: Federal Criminal Law | Uncategorized
Tunnel Vision By Investigators and Prosecutors Convicts, Imprisons the Innocent
By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
Last year we blogged about the tragic wrongful convictions of three innocent Texas inmates, Ricardo Rachel, Timothy Cole (here…
Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions: Mistaken Identification by Eyewitnesses
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
There have been 251 innocent people exonerated in this country by DNA evidence over the last two decades. The most…
Category: Sex Crimes
Judges Should Question Victims, Witnesses, About Offense Before Imposing Punishment
By: Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer John Floyd and Billy Sinclair
Under Texas law, a criminal defendant has the option of allowing either the jury that convicted him or the…
Category: Sex Crimes
Inadmissible Evidence under 608(b) of the Texas Rules of Evidence May be Admissible under 613(b), Rule 412 or Confrontation Clause
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
A Harris County federal jury recently awarded $5…
District Attorney’s Office of the Third Judicial District v. Osborne; U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Ability for Wrongfully Convicted to Prove Innocence
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
George Rodriquez spent 17 years in the…
City of Houston Sued; Disgraced Crime Lab on Trial After Wrongfully Convicted Man Exonerated After 17 Years in Prison
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
George Rodriquez was a 26-year-old young man in 1987…
Category: Sex Crimes | Uncategorized
Factors Contributing to Wrongful Convictions and Unjust Imprisonment
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
In a March 16, 2009 article (“Cold Shoulder from Lubbock Officials in Cole Case”), we wrote extensively about the tragic wrongful…
Category: Sex Crimes | Uncategorized
DNA Exonerations: Improper Eyewitness Identification Procedures and Poor Police Work; A Deadly Combination
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
Dying in prison is a sad, tragic affair. Timothy Cole died in a Texas prison…
False Allegations of Rape, Convictions Based Exclusively on Uncorroborated Testimony
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Senior Paralegal Billy Sinclair
18 years ago Robert McClendon, then 34 years of age, was convicted and sentenced to 15 years…
Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd Discusses False Child Sexual Assault Allegations and Defending the Wrongly Accused
In April 2008, after coming home late from a party, a Wunsche High School student told her father that she had been…
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