http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/ en-us 2008-02-29T10:42:24-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2008/02/conspiracy_laws.html Title 18, Section 371 of the United States Code sets forth a separate crime for Conspiracy to commit any offense listed in the U.S. Penal Code. Conspiracy has a maximum punishment of Five years. So if someone is charged with... Texas Criminal Law Glossary Michael J. Brown 2008-02-29T10:42:24-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2008/02/white_collar_crimes.html The term "White Collar crime" is a generic one; that is, it refers generally to crimes committed by the use of the pen rather than the sword. There is no legal definition of the word, whose origin is probably journalistic... Texas Criminal Law Glossary Michael J. Brown 2008-02-26T16:22:38-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2008/02/indictment.html Article 21.01 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure states that an indictment "is the written statement of a grand jury accusing a person therein named of some act or omission which, by law, is declared to be an offense."... Texas Criminal Law Glossary Michael J. Brown 2008-02-26T16:00:27-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2008/02/subpoena_1.html Subpoena comes from the Latin "Sub" (under) and "poena" (penalty). Black's Law Dictionary defines the word as " A process to cause a witness to appear and give testimony, commanding him to lay aside all pretenses and excuses, and appear... Texas Criminal Law Glossary Michael J. Brown 2008-02-26T15:13:07-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2008/02/texas_criminal_law_glossary.html Hearsay is what somebody else told the witness. "She told me that...." I heard that...." Simply put, hearsay is something somebody else said, rather than what the witness saw or did. It can be quite complicated, and many volumes have... Texas Criminal Law Glossary Michael J. Brown 2008-02-18T14:41:45-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2008/01/a_federal_grand_jury_serves_tw.html A Federal Grand Jury can be used by a United States Attorney to return indictments on cases presented through agents of various Federal investigative agencies, such as the FBI, DEA, AT&F, Secret Service, and other agencies charged with the... Federal Crimes Michael J. Brown 2008-01-29T14:49:29-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2007/12/federal_mortgage_fraud_prosecu.html Along with the acceleration of foreclosures in the rapidly falling real estate market comes the inevitable increase in Mortgage Fraud Indictments by Federal Grand Juries in Texas and other Federal Districts throughout the United States. Federal Mortgage Fraud ranges from... Federal Crimes Michael J. Brown 2007-12-31T15:10:11-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2007/12/ussupreme_court_strengthens_se.html The United States Supreme Court returned two decisions this week which should result in more discretion for sentencing judges. Before these decisions, Federal District Judges were required to justify departure from The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which were passed by Congress... Federal Crimes Michael J. Brown 2007-12-13T15:15:50-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2007/12/sean_taylor_the_washington_red.html Sean Taylor, the Washington Redskins all pro safety recently shot and killed in his home during the course of a burglary, was shot by only one of the four individuals arrested in connection with the crime. However, all four men... Arrest Michael J. Brown 2007-12-06T15:30:28-06:00 http://www.texascriminallawyerblog.com/2007/11/the_texas_court_of_criminal_ap.html There is a big ruckus being raised in Austin against Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Chief Judge Sharon Keller's refusal to hear the last-minute appeal of Death Row inmate Michael Richard which was filed 15 minutes late because of... Criminal Appeals Michael J. Brown 2007-11-26T13:34:34-06:00