By Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair
The State of Texas executed two foreign nationals during the week of August 5 and 7, 2008. Both men, Jose Ernesto Medellin and Heliberto Chi, were found…
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By Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair
The State of Texas executed two foreign nationals during the week of August 5 and 7, 2008. Both men, Jose Ernesto Medellin and Heliberto Chi, were found…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair
On July 23, 2008 the State of Mississippi executed Dale Leo Bishop for his involvement in the beating death of 22-year-old Marcus James Gentry. The Bishop execution…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Terrorism Criminology
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair
How would you feel if you had never been a member of any nation’s military, had never fought alongside any nation’s armed forces, and had never borne arms…
Category: Drug Crime
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John T. Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair+
Fabens, Texas is located thirty miles southeast of El Paso just across the Rio Grande from Mexico. 95 percent of the people living in the town of 8,000…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Sex Crimes
By: Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd
and Mr. Billy Sinclair
The grand jury is a powerful weapon in the hands of state and federal prosecutors. An old legal adage says that a prosecutor can get a grand jury…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Mr. Billy Sinclair
The International Court of Justice recently issued an order staying the execution of five Mexican nationals held on Texas’ death row in response to a petition filed by the…
Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd Discusses FBI’s Push to Legitimize Racial Profiling
On July 3, 2008 the Associated Press reported that the United States Justice Department was considering adoption of new rules that would allow the FBI to investigate persons…
Category: Terrorism Criminology
Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd Discusses Scalias Blistering Dissent Accusing Justices of Aiding Terrorist
The Supreme Court on June 12, 2008 issued a decision that marked the first time in the nation’s history that the constitutional right to the…
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…
Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd Discusses the Tragedy of the John Horn Case and the Implications of Grand Jury No Bill
It was a highly-charged emotional case from the beginning. It had all the social ingredients for stirring controversy:…