by John Floyd | Jun 14, 2025 | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Kim Ogg remains a sloppy, self-serving, unethical, and politicized hack, just as she was when she served as Harris County District Attorney. Beyond taxes and death, there is another certainty Houstonians can count on: former District Attorney Kim Ogg cannot keep her...
by John Floyd | Apr 27, 2025 | Criminal Law, Discovery 39.14, Prosecutorial Misconduct
Senator Joan Huffman (R-Houston) started her legal career as a prosecutor and morphed that prosecutorial background into a conservative, pro-prosecutor political career. At the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, she worked up to Chief Felony Prosecutor...
by John Floyd | Dec 13, 2024 | Appeals, Criminal Law, Discovery 39.14, Prosecutorial Misconduct
Discovery in criminal cases in Texas has a tortured history. The State’s discovery statute, Article 39.14 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, was enacted in 1965. As the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) has often noted, the statute did not confer upon...
by John Floyd | Dec 7, 2024 | Appeals, Criminal Law, Prosecutorial Misconduct
Last month, we posted a piece about a landmark decision, Heath v. State, in which the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that a prosecutor has an affirmative duty to determine if law enforcement has evidence in its possession and if it does, secure that evidence...
by John Floyd | Aug 17, 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform, Prosecutorial Misconduct
Missouri is a right-leaning state where the constitutional rule of law is too often usurped by the conservative political views of its public officeholders. Take the case of Sandra Hemme, for example. She was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the November...
by John Floyd | Feb 25, 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform, Prosecutorial Misconduct
Kim Ogg, once hailed as the “reform darling” in Texas Democratic political circles after she ousted Republican control of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in 2016, now faces a tough uphill battle in her attempt to be elected to the post for a third term....
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