Given all the recent media headlines and attendant copy churned out regarding a U.S. Department of Justice focus on shored-up enforcement and application of so-called mandatory minimum sentencing rules in criminal cases, the DOJ’s predominant crime-fighting emphasis going forward…

The following story might be reasonably construed as a near-seamless companion piece to the subject matter we presented in a recent blog post. That entry — our April 7 post — chronicled a recent large-scale Medicaid fraud case and…

A news report referencing a seemingly understated event taking place tomorrow in a college lecture hall far from Texas might seem to be testing the bounds of relevancy for its appearance in the criminal defense blog of a Houston-based…