Blog Posts in March, 2011
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Posted on Mar 31, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
In California, a registered sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court to receipt and distribution of child pornography. In November, a printer repairman was fixing the defendant's printer when he ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
In 1984, John Thompson was convicted of murder and a car jacking. During the trial, prosecutors deliberately concealed a blood sample and police lab report that would have established his innocence. ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
An interesting article in The New York Times discuss the problems that States are having with minors' increasing propensity for sexting with each other. Also referred to" self-produced child ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Texas has eight different classifications of crimes and punishment ranges. Here are the different categories and punishment ranges. Capital Felony (capital murder): Death or Life Imprisonment. First ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Timothy James Chapek, a 24 year-man, called 911 after he broke into a home. Around 7 p.m. Chapek broke into the home and soon after the break-in, the homeowners returned home. Chapek then went into ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Jeffrey Bruteyn, former managing director of AmeriFirst Funding Corp, was sentenced to 25 years for a scheme that raised more than $50 million for more than 600 investors from Texas and Florida. Many ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Two sisters on the run in South America, who have been missing since 2007, were arrested Sunday in Columbia. They were on the federal most-wanted list for Medicare fraud. They are alleged to have ...
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Posted on Mar 21, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A University of Cincinnati student on his way to his grandfather's funeral decided to opt out of a search by TSA's new x-ray machines and asked for a pat-down, instead. he then proceeded to strip down ...
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Posted on Mar 21, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
The Texas Senate passed a bill that would require police in Texas to adopt written policies for conducting live and photo identification lineups of criminal suspects. According to the Houston ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A jury in San Saba, Texas convicted a 22-year old man on three felony counts aggravated sexual assault of a child. The victim in this case was a seven-year old family member who ultimately told her ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Currently, Texas colleges and universities are weapons-free zones. State Senator Jeff Wentworth, however, has proposed a bill which would allow the carrying of concealed weapons on college campuses, ...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A Denton man will face a capital murder charge in Dallas as a result of the death of a 76-year-old Dallas woman. Around 5:30 in the evening, Rogelio C. Belmonte approached the victim in a parking lot ...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Mel Gibson pleaded no contest to an assault charge that resulted from a heated argument with his ex-girlfriend. Gibson claims that he slapped her with an open hand, but said that he was concerned for ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
In Plano, Texas a couple facing federal charges for hiding a Sri Lankan woman in their home and forcing her to work for them through threats, have pleaded not guilty to the charges. Nagham Hasan ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
In 2009, Kimberly Kates was brutally murdered while in bed. Her killer used a machete, but he was not eligible for execution because it was not one of the enumerated types of murder eligible for ...
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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
deadly weapon Enough to kill Two-and-a-Half-Men. Besides providing train-wreck entertainment for the average television viewer, Charlie Sheen has also displayed a fake deadly weapon while drinking ...
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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
John Dawson, was charged with multiple indictments of theft and with two counts of sale/delivery of cocaine and a controlled substance. He was currently in the federal penitentiary and was transported ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Nineteen year old, Steven Demund McKnight was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for committing the offense of home invasion (burglary of a habitation) . McKnight broke into an 83-year-old man's ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A recently released investigation done by Sports Illustrated/CBS News found that approximately seven percent of the nearly 3,000 student-athletes in the Sports Illustrated preseason top 25 college ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Dr. Michael McCarty, 64, was charged with possession and promotion of child pornography located on a laptop in McCarty's Austin home. The police also located images at McCarty's work computer and ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
In 1993, Hank Skinner was arrested for the murder of a woman and her two adult sons. The woman was Skinner's girlfriend at the time. The prosecution used some of the evidence during trial, but did not ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A Dallas man was arrested for aggravated robbery last night. Terrance Hawkins, 24, is accused of shooting two men at an apartment complex in Dallas. After the shooting, Hawkins is then alleged to have ...
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Posted on Mar 6, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Santo Constancio III, 36, of San Antonio, pled guilty to intoxication manslaughter and was sentenced to sixteen years in prison. Constancio ran a red light and collided into the victim's, David Silva, ...
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Posted on Mar 5, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
On Tuesday, William Lee Currie pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated robbery in Weatherford, Texas. According to the Parker County District Attorney's office, in June ...
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Posted on Mar 4, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Texas is engaged in a battle with the federal government regarding the Adam Walsh Act. This a federal law aimed at creating a national sex offender registry. The federal law will divide those ...
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