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SEC Enforcement Action Results in Five-Year Ban on Acting as Officer or Director in Any Public Company 21 Aug 2013 | 09:49 pm
A former chief financial officer (CFO) for a public corporation agreed to a judgment with the Securities and Exchange commission (SEC) that bars him from serving as a director or officer in a public c...
Facebook Boasts Aid Federal Prosecutors in Tax Fraud Case 16 Aug 2013 | 04:39 am
A Florida woman was sentenced to nearly twenty years in prison and ordered to pay more than $3.1 million in restitution after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. United States...
Evading Arrest is a "Violent Felony," According to Court, for Purposes of Federal Firearms Statute 13 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
A state-court conviction for evading arrest constituted a "violent felony" that required a sentencing enhancement in a federal firearms case, according to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. United St...
Constitutional Challenges to Civil Forfeiture Meet with Only Limited Success 3 Aug 2013 | 04:51 am
Civil forfeiture cases involve a strange combination of civil and criminal law. They typically occur in connection with some sort of criminal investigation, but the law allows a civil forfeiture even ...
State and Federal Governments Use Civil Forfeiture to Seize Assets Outside of the Criminal Court System 27 Jul 2013 | 02:39 am
Law enforcement at the state and federal level may use civil forfeiture proceedings to take ownership of property allegedly connected, however tangentially, to criminal activity. Because such a procee...
DA's Use of Private Contractor in Highway Drug Seizures and Forfeitures Causes Controversy 26 Jul 2013 | 08:21 pm
A district attorney in Oklahoma has drawn substantial criticism for his use of a private company, whose primary business is law enforcement training, in seizures of drugs and alleged drug money along ...
Texas Court Rejects Entrapment Defense in Drug Case 20 Jul 2013 | 03:50 am
A trial court committed harmless error by giving a jury instruction on the entrapment defense that did not identify a confidential informant ("CI") as a "law enforcement agent," according to the Texas...
Marijuana Smell Not Enough to Justify Warrantless Entry into Home, According to Texas Court of Criminal Appeals 18 Jul 2013 | 04:05 am
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that probable cause to suspect that a home contained marijuana, a clear marijuana odor coming from inside the home, and the knowledge of the home's occupant t...
SEC Uses Facebook to Identify Insider Trading Suspect's Alleged Source 26 Jun 2013 | 08:24 pm
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has frozen the assets of a Thai man after filing a complaint alleging insider trading. The civil complaint, filed in a Chicago federal court, charges ...
Supreme Court Allows Prosecutors to Use Silence as Evidence of Guilt - Salinas v. Texas 21 Jun 2013 | 04:03 am
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling recently that challenges many perceptions of the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The court held that prosecutors did not violate a defendant's ...
