Forensic Evidence Errors and Las Vegas Criminal Cases

When defendants are charged with crimes in Las Vegas, prosecutors have the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants are guilty. In many criminal cases ranging from charges of impaired driving to charges of sexual assault or murder, forensic.

Why would African American defendants being prosecuted for in federal court on charges that could carry the death penalty adopt a bizarre defense developed by white supremacists, one that the trial judge himself  describes as legal "suicide"? The full story of the.

Jared Forgle: How People Get Arrested For Child Porn Crimes In August, the former spokesperson for the Subway sandwich chain, Jared Fogle, was arrested on federal charges. Fogle was accused of paying money to engage in explicit sexual acts with children. He.

The statute of limitations bars prosecutors from pursuing criminal charges against defendants for very old crimes. A statute of limitations is necessary for many reasons.  People should not be forced to spend their lives worried about being accused of wrongful behavior from.

The focus of many white-collar criminal offenses is fraud. However, fraud itself is not a crime, it is simply a “concept” that is an integral aspect of several criminal statutes. Fraud is at the core of a variety of federal criminal statutes:.

Despite the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' seeming to take district courts to task in other decisions for failure to consider factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) which tend to favor the government pursuant to Booker, Section 3553(a) mitigating factors which tend to.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, inc., will pay $2.3 billion to the Federal government and 49 States to settle allegations that it violated federal regulations in promoting several drugs, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The settlement is the largest in U.S. history to date.

This summer, the Las Vegas Justice Court released a new revised bail schedule , which became effective May 26, 2015.  The new schedule has since taken effect, which means that all bookings into the Clark County Detention Center and other local detention.

On May 2, 2015, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao fought at the MGM grand. The fight was billed as the “fight of the century,” as Mayweather was an undefeated five-division world champion and Pacquiao was an eight-division world champion.   The fight.

  Human trafficking is described as a “silent epidemic” because so many are unaware of the scope of the trafficking problem.  Those who are aware of human trafficking often have significant misconceptions regarding what it entails, who is targeted, and what trafficking.