The dismissal of more than 90 additional drug convictions are expected in 11 years’ worth of cases involving a disgraced former Houston police officer. Prosecutors made the announcement in May regarding investigations led by ex-narcotics officer Gerald Goines. He has...
You have a drug problem. To support your habit, maybe you deal a little to your friends -- or maybe you carried a few packages between your dealer and someone else. Whatever happened, you got caught. Naturally, you're terrified -- but the police officer has just made...
You never dreamed that a federal agent would be calling your office. Your not sure what the whole thing is about. Are you being investigated? Maybe. The federal government seldom reveals all of its cards early in the investigation game, so you could be of interest to...
Cases involving Medicare fraud continue to occur, and many often involve years of alleged misbehavior. Take for instance the recent case of a Houston man. In early May, Ravinder Syal, 57, pleaded guilty to federal charges in a nearly $5 million health care fraud...
Does it really matter if you meant to commit a crime or not? Maybe. There are certain crimes, like homicide, that are punished more seriously depending on whether the perpetrator acted with malice aforethought. The mens rea, or mental state of the person who committed...
The cost of the average fix has been going up considerably, lately. The cost of illegal drugs, just like everything else on a consumer-driver market, rises according to the law of supply and demand. Right now, social, medical and economic situations are creating a lot...
Immigration violations have become the number one most common source of federal prosecutions in this country, surging well ahead of the second-most prominent contender: Drug crimes. According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission's annual report, immigration crimes surged...
