by John Floyd | Feb 26, 2026 | Criminal Law, grand jury
Federal grand jury proceedings serve as the entry point for many serious criminal cases in the federal system. These proceedings take place behind closed doors, without a judge present for most of the process and without defense counsel participating in the room,...
by John Floyd | Dec 18, 2020 | Federal Criminal Law, grand jury
Federal criminal investigations may start in different ways. They often begin when a federal law enforcement agency, such as the FBI, receives information about criminal wrongdoing from a victim of a crime or a witness who knows a crime. The investigation results are...
by John Floyd | Dec 17, 2020 | Capital Crimes, grand jury
A capital felony is the most severe felony you can face in Texas. While carrying out death sentences has actually decreased in recent years, the federal government under the Trump administration, led by outgoing Attorney General William Barr, has accelerated its pace...
by John Floyd | Apr 22, 2019 | grand jury
We recently made this observation about justice following three controversial rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year: “Justice is dispensed, and laws are interpreted, by the Court today based more on ideology than on prior precedent with legitimate...
by John Floyd | Apr 22, 2019 | grand jury
We recently made this observation about justice following three controversial rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year: “Justice is dispensed, and laws are interpreted, by the Court today based more on ideology than on prior precedent with legitimate...
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