Category Archives: Sex Crimes
Texas’ Statute Criminalizing Sexually Explicit Online Communications with Minors Declared Unconstitutional, Cases Dismissed
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TexCrimApp) this past October upset district attorneys and “tough on crime” legislators throughout the state when it declared…
Court Narrows Marital Communication Privilege in Illegal Porn Case
On January 6, 2014, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Breton narrowed the scope of the marital communications privilege. The…
Courts Reluctant to Find Actual Innocence
The maze of Federal post-conviction habeas corpus can be a procedural nightmare as illustrated in a February 13, 2014 decision by the Ninth Circuit…
Adam Walsh Civil Commitment Case Reversed After Appellate Court Rejects Finding of Dangerous Sexual Offender
The U.S. Justice Department has studied, and found, that a majority of the nation’s incarcerated offenders have experienced some type of physical or sexual…
Are Federal Sentencing Guidelines Substantively Unreasonable in Child Pornography Cases?
Are Federal Sentencing Guideline Substantively Unreasonable in Child Pornography Cases? In July 2011, Thomas King was indicted by a Federal grand jury in Maine…
Thin-Skinned Prosecutor in Woody Allen Case Jumps Into Fray
Dylan Farrow’s “open letter” accusations of sexual abuse against Woody Allen in the February 1 edition of the New York Times awakened the proverbial sleeping dog.…
Deferred Adjudication is Conviction for Federal Sex Registration Purposes
Deferred Adjudication is Conviction for Federal Sex Registration Purposes Article 42.12, § 3d(a) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure provides: “When in its…
Woody Allen Sees Renewed Allegations of Sexual Abuse
In a February 1, 2014 “Open Letter” to the New York Times, the adopted daughter of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, Dylan Farrow, reignited a…
Child Pornography Case Overturned After Extreme Police Interrogation
US Court of Appeals finds extreme police conduct, circumstances of search and length of interview place suspect in custody and trigger Miranda Child pornography…
Compelled Admissions Made During Court Ordered Sex Treatment Inadmissible
Richard Roosevelt Bahr, Jr. is an admitted sex offender. In 2003, he was convicted in Wasco County, Oregon of third-degree rape—a Class C felony…
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