by John Floyd | Jul 29, 2022 | Cyberstalking, Uncategorized
The internet is now woven into the fabric of everyday life, making electronic communication commonplace an easy way to stay in touch with others. However, not all communications via the internet or on social media are wanted – and some may, in fact, be a crime. A...
by John Floyd | Jun 12, 2022 | Drug Trafficking, Federal Criminal Law, Guns, Uncategorized
This past February, Houston’s city officials allocated 44 million dollars to combat increasing violence in the state’s largest city. At a news conference announcing the allocation of the violence-fighting funds, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner stated : “Violent crime...
by John Floyd | May 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
White hatred of people of color is a permanent fixture in American history. The violence done to people of color by White Americans cannot be undone, nor the historical recordings of that violence erased from the chronicles of history. Racial hatred was brought to...
by John Floyd | May 25, 2022 | Presidential Commutation, Uncategorized
Presidential clemency, most often a commutation of a criminal sentence, is a last-ditch effort to have a reduced because of its harshness or an inordinate amount of time served by the offender. Presidential clemency powers are rarely exercised and it happens only...
by John Floyd | Apr 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
In October of 2019, the Texas Civil Rights Project(TCRP) issued a report , “ Torture by Another Name: Solitary Confinement in Texas ,” that showed there were (as of May 2019) 4,165 inmates housed in long term solitary confinement in the Lone Star State. The number of...
by John Floyd | Feb 27, 2022 | Corruption, Death Penalty, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Uncategorized
The continuing march by the State of Texas to execute George Edward McFarland adds to the often-repeated phrase associated with death penalty cases, “only in Texas.” Texas has probably executed at least ten innocent people (far more than any other state). The Lone...
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