Category Archives: Federal Criminal Law
Reversal of Conviction for Appearance of Judicial Bias
Socrates once said, “Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to listen wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.” The federal…
Recanted Testimony Fails to Meet “Extraordinaily High” Burden for Claim of Actual Innocence
Probably the most difficult constitutional claim to establish in a federal habeas corpus proceeding is one of “actual innocence.” This premise was reinforced by…
File Sharing Not Necessarily Distribution
File sharing permits the public or private sharing of computer data in a network that allows multiple people to read, view, modify, copy, print,…
Gov. Perry Gives “Banana Republic Politics” a Bad Name
Gov. Rick Perry and his defense team have characterized his recent two felony abuse of power indictments by a Travis County Grand Jury as…
Indicted Governor Still Haunted by Wrongful Execution and Political Cover-up
Cameron Todd Willingham was executed by the State of Texas on February 17, 2004. He was the seventh person put to death that year…
Pentagon Pipeline Turning American Streets into Militarized War Zones
The recent confrontations between the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department and the city’s African-American community have served at least one purpose: it has shown the…
Nervousness Provides Little Weight in Reasonable Suspicion Calculus
Kentucky is often a state of distinction for the wrong reasons. It ranks in the top ten of the two of the worst categories:…
There is No Humane Method of Execution
On July 21, 2014, Arizona convicted murderer John Rudolph Woods became the fourth condemned inmate this year to die in a “botched” lethal injection…
RELIABILITY OF VIDEOTAPED CONFESSIONS IN DEBATE
Courts generally consider the evidentiary power of confessions to be uniquely persuasive of guilt. In 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court Arizona v. Fulminante found…
Texas Court Sets Hurdles in Intentional Forensic Misconduct Cases
In January 2012 the Texas Department of Public Safety realized it had a major problem with one of its employees—a forensic scientist named Jonathan…
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