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Cryptocurrency Fraud Schemes on the Rise During COVID-19 Pandemic

With shelter in place orders still in effect as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity for online fraud has never been greater.…

Commit a Crime During a Declared Disaster? Face Higher Penalties in TX

Law enforcement agencies and state officials around the country are doing their best to maintain order during this unprecedented time. In the state of…

Houston Council Member Kubosh Needs a History Lesson

A pandemic brings out the best in most people and the worst in some. In 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic, Oklahoma City public…

Texas Laws That Gun Dealers Need to Keep in Mind Right Now

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, gun sales have soared. In Texas, the state’s Attorney General has deemed gun stores essential, meaning they…

Joe Exotic’s Federal Sentence of 22 Years? It Could Have Been Worse!

With the widespread attention of the recent Netflix documentary, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness, Joe Exotic (given name Joseph Maldonado-Passage) has become an…

SCOTUS Says Officer’s Assumption Enough to Stop Vehicle

On April 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an 8-1 opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas that gives law enforcement greater discretionary latitude in…

Has the President Committed Negligent Homicide?

In a recent podcast interview with Mehdi Hasan, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirscher posed the interesting possibility that President Donald J. Trump could face…

Gov. Abbott Fights Judges Over COVID Compassionate Release

Gradually, inevitably, the COVID 19 virus is working its way through the Texas jail and prison systems. There are roughly 7,500 to 10,000 inmates…

TX Governor Halts Jail Release During Pandemic

Each year worldwide, some 30 million people spend time in a prison or some other form of detention. Eleven million people are incarcerated around…

Hotze and Cabal Use COVID to Proselytize Their Religion

Governmental and political incompetence has infected the COVID 19 crisis at virtually every level in the official response to it. Thousands of people have…

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