Category Archives: Criminal Law

Police Detectives in False Confession Case Can be Sued

Four detectives (Joe Ryan Hartley, Ryan Wolff, Mike Duffy, and Heather Mykes) and one investigator (Michael Dickson) conducted an investigation into a 2009 burglary…

Pretense Protective Sweep between Mattress and Box Spring Leads to Firearms Conviction

Ivan Garcia-Lopez probably wishes he had taken his meal somewhere else on the evening February 5, 2014. He was living in a single-wide trailer…

“Porngate” – More than Just a Pennsylvania Judicial Scandal

Political scandals tend to always have a sordid beginning. That is the nature of the “porngate” scandal currently rocking Pennsylvania’s judicial and political systems…

Corrupt Police Office Found Guilty of Distributing Marijuana, Making False Statements, Sentenced to One Month?

Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip M. Stinson is recognized as probably the nation’s best authority on police misconduct. Over a ten-year period, beginning in 2005,…

Evidence Suppressed After Appeals Court Finds Cops Intentionally Lied About Existence of Search Warrant

In May 2013, Marguita Wills lived Charleston, West Virginia. She had a male companion named Kenneth Rush living with her in her apartment. He had been…

Prosecutor Banned from Court! Texas Disciplinary Rules Require Disclosure of Favorable Evidence Regardless of Materiality

William Allen Schultz, a Denton County prosecutor, has been banned from appearing in a state district court after the court found he purposefully withheld…

Loquan McDonald Executed by Police

There is an ever growing “hazy border” between excessive and acceptable use of deadly force by law enforcement.  This reality is demonstrated by the…

NON-U.S. CITIZENS MISTREATED IN FEDERAL FOR-PROFIT PRISONS

Calls for “prison reform” are now coming from every political corridor. The reason is obvious: American taxpayers cannot continue to bear the exorbitant costs…

Criminal Defense Attorney Humbled by Conviction, Sentenced to 15 Years

He was a flamboyant criminal defense attorney, well- known in the state criminal courts in Harris County for his courtroom theatrics and his contentious,…

Prosecutors Preventing Claims of Innocence Pervert Justice

In dismissing an ethics complaint against Fort Bend, County District Attorney John Healy, Denton County District Judge Jonathan Bailey ruled that the Texas Rules…

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