by John Floyd | Feb 20, 2017 | Internet Sex Crimes
Sentencing disparity in child pornography cases is an infectious virus undermining the integrity of the federal judiciary. We discussed this problem as far back as 2010. The problem has gotten worse. This horrific federal sentencing problem was created, and has been...
by John Floyd | Feb 5, 2017 | Criminal Law, Illegal Pornography, Internet Sex Crimes
Texas Penal Code § 21.15(b)(1) made it a crime to photograph someone “without the person’s consent” and “with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.” In 2014, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Ex parte Thompson declared the statute facially...
by John Floyd | Nov 14, 2016 | Illegal Pornography, Internet Sex Crimes
Aaron Wikkerink had an extensive criminal history that included a conviction for a sex offense (aggravated incest that had resulted in an eight-year prison sentence) when he was arrested again in February 2014 in Shreveport, Louisiana on 41 counts of possession of...
by John Floyd | Sep 27, 2016 | Federal Criminal Law, Internet Sex Crimes
The FBI has a sordid history of being cavalier about the Constitutional protections guaranteed the people of this country, a reputation that lingers since the days of J. Edgar Hoover. This famed “crime-fighter” believed a citizen’s constitutional protections,...
by John Floyd | Aug 12, 2016 | Federal Criminal Law, Internet Sex Crimes
In 1984, the U.S. Congress established the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The organization was reauthorized by the Congress and the President in 2013 with $40 million in government funding. The group calls itself a “private, non-profit...
by John Floyd | Jul 31, 2016 | Federal Criminal Law, Illegal Pornography, Internet Sex Crimes
There is this rule of law—dating back to 1932 when the U.S. Supreme Court first pronounced it—that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits multiple punishments for the same criminal offense. Double Jeopardy The double jeopardy test as the Supreme...
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