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Sexual assault is a category of crimes that involves performing sexual activities with another person without their consent. Each state has their own consent laws, with very few variances among them. In recent years, we’ve seen a greater awareness being brought to the topic of consent, in a large part due to media coverage of…
Any crime that involves sexual assault is considered a serious offense by the Texas judicial system. As a felony charge, sexual assault can carry severe penalties, including lengthy periods of incarceration and significant fines. When a person is convicted of sexual assault, how they are sentenced will depend on several factors, one of the most…
Hate crimes are rising in Texas and Dallas saw more than any other city in the state in 2018, according to recently-released figures. The Federal Bureau of Investigations’ statistics for 2018 showed the number of hate crimes committed in Texas rose by nearly 240% from 2017 to 2018. The figures in the Uniform Crime Prevention…
Whistleblowers play a tremendously important role in white-collar crime. Understand more about what a whistleblower is, and if they’re protected. Whistleblowers play an incredibly important role in the fight against white-collar crime. Because corporate crimes can be difficult to detect initially, whistleblowers help corporations protect their assets and spark investigations into possible illegal misconduct. The…
A few years ago, teens vaping was an alarming trend. Now vaping at their Texas schools could leave students facing felony charges. Schools are resorting to Draconian measures to deal with a dramatic rise in teen vaping. Some are using the criminal law to its full force. It’s an alarming development that could land some…
According to the Marshall Project, about 800,000 Americans are required to register as a sex offender. While society tends to think of people on the sex offender registry as serial predators or violent criminals, the reality is that about half are on the registry for offenses many people wouldn’t even consider crimes. How to Get…
Texas has seen some high-profile white collar crime cases in recent years. However, new data suggests prosecutions brought for corporate corruption is falling. According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research center at Syracuse University that tracks federal data, white collar prosecutions fell under the Trump administration. They are down 8.5% from a year…
Harassment in a term that’s used to describe actions that are intended to humiliate, embarrass or demean a person. However, the term is also one that contains a lot of gray areas in its definition – especially in the digital age we live in. Texas has a specific statute on its books that prohibits electronic…
Homicides in Dallas are on course to hit a 10-year high by the year’s end, sparking a demand by Mayor Eric Johnson for a plan to cut violent offenses. The Dallas Morning News reported Mayor Eric Johnson wrote a letter to City Manager T.C Broadnax highlighting the stark rise in violent crime in the Dallas…
People who have been convicted of a crime have a right to file an appeal. Because it can take several months or more for an appeal to make it to court, most people want to know if they can wait out this process at home or if they’re required to stay behind bars. There is…