There’s no question that Des Moines, Iowa resident David Anthony Tumea had serious mental health problems in 2012. There is also no question that…
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…
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,…
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The official website for DHS says its mission is “to…
In 1996, Congress enacted the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA). The Act is codified as amended in 18 U.S.C. § 3563A. This statute requires…
Sentencing the federal court is a mess. 1984 was a bad year for the federal criminal justice system. The U.S. Senate, by a vote…
John Bradley, the once stout and irreplaceable district Attorney of Williamson County, is like the inexorable march of time—he keeps moving and moving, never…
Mens Rea is a legal term that refers the mental state of “criminal intent.” It is the state of mind that an individual must…
In a major speech at New York City University this past September, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates announced that the U.S. Justice Department…
According to FBI statistics, there were 11,961 murders committed in the U.S. in 2014. 8124 of the murders were committed using handguns. 262 people were…
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