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Criminal Jurisdiction

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INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION: Wire Taps Based on Intel From Foreign Governments Create Constitutional Concerns

While surveillance, eavesdropping and spying have become prominent features in the American lexicon over the past several months, they have long been insidious instruments…

THE ECONOMICS OF THE DEATH PENALTY: Outrageous Costs Plague Death Machine

As criminal defense attorneys we are completely aware of the flaws in the criminal justice system that lead to wrongful convictions and executions.  However,…

RIGHT TO SILENCE MUST BE INVOKED

We always advise individuals who a potential targets or suspects in criminal investigations to clearly assert their right to remain silent and their right…

STOP AND FRISK HAS BECOME THE NEW RACIAL PROFILING

The killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of  George Zimmerman exposed a raw nerve left after years of continued prejudice, racial profiling and inequality in criminal…

ZIMMERMAN VERDICT: “NOT GUILTY” DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN INNOCENCE

After the acquittal of George Zimmerman in his trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman walked out of the courtroom a free man…

The Zimmerman Verdict

Not Guilty Verdict Fans Discontent Over Disparity in Justice System Our adversarial system of justice sometimes works. The George Zimmerman demonstrates as much. Prosecutors…

Hope For Actually Innocent Offenders

More than 90 percent of criminal defendants plead guilty rather than go to trial. While some of these defendants are innocent and choose to…

Individual Innocence Redeemed – Faith In System Lost

How does the State repay innocence lost? And do the wrongfully convicted forgive the State? Michael Cosme, Devon Ayers and Carlos Perez were freed…

Public’s Right to Know V.S. Government’s Non-Disclosure

Statutes Criminalizing Leaking of Classified Information We believe strongly, as do most in the defense bar, in the public’s right to know—a right protected…

“PASSIVE PEDOPHILES”

U.S. Sentencing Commission Report Recommends New Sentencing Factors In Possession of Child Pornography Cases By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Who…

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