June 25, 2018

Jury Selection Case Law We going to talk about the very best cases from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals from the last term and a few of the worst and a few more to watch out for that are now pending on PDR and so we’re going to watch them for the next year […]

Case Law on Experts in Criminal Law Part 1 Let’s talk about experts for minute. The Blasdell cases, extremely important case on page 30 of the paper, decided by the court of criminal appeals. In that case, the defense wanted to put on a physiological expert to talk about the unreliability of the eye witness

Case Law on Experts in Criminal Law Polygraphs Part 2 Leonard the next case. I forget the exact facts of Leonard but Leonard was on probation for sex offense and he was required to take polygraphs and he objected to that and he failed the polygraph obviously and they revoked his probation and he objected

Case law on Experts in Sex Cases Ok, let’s talk about sex cases. Fleming is the most intriguing case I think out there. Its pending right now in the court of criminal appeals and in Fleming, the question now is; does the Texas constitution actually that’s not the question. In 2011, the case went up

Juror Disqualification in a Criminal Case That the jurors be convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony — that’s a disqualification that cannot be waived by other party – that the juror is under indictment or other legal acquisition for a misdemeanor theft or a felony and someone who’s on differed adjudication right now, is

Motions to Suppress Miller v. State! There’s two ways we often lose motion to suppress when we think we got to great case, all the police went in yea without a warrant but they went in under the ‘emergency doctrine’. Or two; it was consensual. Miller is a good case for us on both those

Computer Crimes The problem is most of the child pornography defendants your going to see, are a little bit tougher to work with. Now you can send them to the tanning beds so that they don’t look so quite so pasty white. Now you can get them to shave off their porn stash. But, we

Computer Crimes Child Pornography Sentencing Guidelines Demystify the guidelines; Quick example; Here is how the federal system started punishing for the number of images somebody has. This is representative Sensin Burner, Head of the House, Judicial Committee. He had somebody working for him. Alright now this person working for him had a pipelined introduced into