by John Floyd | Jan 25, 2018 | Drug Crime, Drug Trafficking
A recent South Texas drug case involving multiple defendants illustrates the workings of concurrent/consecutive sentencing. The five defendants convicted in the case, including on drug trafficking charges, were sentenced to serve some of their sentences currently...
by John Floyd | Jan 25, 2018 | Drug Crime, Drug Trafficking
A recent South Texas drug case involving multiple defendants illustrates the workings of concurrent/consecutive sentencing. The five defendants convicted in the case, including on drug trafficking charges, were sentenced to serve some of their sentences currently...
by John Floyd | Jan 16, 2018 | Drug Trafficking, Federal Sentencing
Sentencing in federal drug cases can sometimes pose difficult challenges for the judges imposing sentence. This was illustrated in a December 12, 2017 decision, United States v. Collins, by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. There was nothing especially exceptional...
by John Floyd | Dec 27, 2017 | Drug Trafficking, Federal Criminal Law
More than two decades ago Pace Law School professor Bennett L. Gershman observed in a scholarly law review article that “rules of evidence are designed to bring about just and informed decisions. One of these rules, the hearsay rule, is designed to ensure that juries...
by John Floyd | Dec 8, 2017 | Drug Crime, Drug Trafficking, Medicare/Medicaid Fraud
The numbers are indeed alarming. 100 million Americans live with chronic pain. It is the most common cause of long-term disability in this country. Pain affects more people in the U.S. than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. According to the National...
by John Floyd | Sep 21, 2017 | Drug Crime, Drug Trafficking
Since becoming the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions has continually misrepresented to the American public that the nation is facing a violent crime wave that poses a threat to our national security. At the 63rd Biennial Conference of the National...
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