Information on Post Conviction Supervision for Cyber Crimes If an individual has been convicted of a cyber crime, the government may place restrictions on their use of computers and the internet in general. The amount and severity of restrictions placed on an individual are dependent on a variety of factors decided on a case-by-case basis. A Court May Need to Articulate Its Position for it To Be Valid It is generally not sufficient for a court to simply ban an individual from having access to a computer or to the internet. Courts have consistently held blanket bans or bans lasting for a long period of time serve to deprive a person of his or her liberty beyond a necessary scope.
Read more →Texas Criminal Legislative Update: April 19, 2015 The Texas Senate and House Committees continue to hold hearings to debate and flesh out the myriad criminal justice-related bills that have been filed this Session. Here are our notes on some of the important legislative pieces as they are passed out of their respective committees. HB 48 by Representatives McClendon, Leach, Herrero and Moody would create the Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission to review convictions after exoneration in order to make recommendations aimed at preventing further wrongful convictions. The same bill was filed (but was not passed into law) by Representative McClendon in the 2011 and 2013 Legislative Sessions. Timothy Cole, the bill’s namesake, was a student at Texas Tech in 1985
Read more →African Americans make up about 12 percent of the Texas general population. However, if you look at the percentage of male inmates from ages 20 to 24, you see that African Americans make up 42 percent of that prison population. Something is terribly wrong. Of course, I don’t believe its just one cause, but as a criminal defense lawyer I have to ask, “Is our criminal court system failing this group of our citizens?” I expect when this group is charged with a crime, most often they are represented by court appointed counsel. Some court appointed attorneys are fantastic and fight for their clients; however, some attorneys work simply as cogs in the machinery that conveys these people down to
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