Richard Gabriel was the defense jury consultant in that case. Here is his piece on the case. Many of the hosts and regular guests of the HLN have admitted that they believed Casey Anthony to be guilty either before or during the trial. And it was with this prejudgment that…
Brown v. United States. Petitioner sought relief for insufficiency of proof on a rape conviction and recalculation of some sentence credit. Petitioner now claims his pretrial confinement was 230 days instead of 210, and seeks adjustment by this court of his military sentence. As respondents point out, however, petitioner failed…
The new online edition of The Jury Expert has several articles of interest to the trial practitioner. Narrative Persuasion in Legal Settings. The authors note the extensive research on rhetorical or argument based communications to the “jury” with narrative communications. While the research into narrative argument is relatively young, there…
San Antonio News-Express reports: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan won’t go on trial until March, but the Army already has selected 12 potential jurors. The jury, however, isn’t coming from Fort Hood, where Hasan is accused of gunning down 45 people in a 2009 shooting spree. In what attorneys say is…
Navy Times reports the issuance of another Secretarial letter of censure: In a slap at the fading and officially out-of-favor tradition of racy, sarcastic and irreverent aviation call signs, a just-retired Navy fighter squadron commanding officer was censured by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Wednesday for failing to halt and subsequently…
Here are some thoughts from Professor McElhaney, in the ABA Journal on examining experts at depositions. It is not too hard to replace “deposition” with “Article 32.” I know, I know, it’s not often the expert shows up at a 32. But other witnesses do. Some of the same principles…
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Navy Times reports: The commanding officer of Navy Recruiting District Nashville was fired Wednesday, the 15th CO relieved this year and the second in two days. The other day I posted an item about Army tattoo policy. Here is one for the Air Force reported in Time. Army Times reports: …
It appears the Major Hasan is releasing Mr. Galligan as his attorney. Had this from a journalist who called asking for “why?” Politico reports however: The lead attorney for Maj. Nodal Hasan, the man charged in the 2009 shooting rampage at Ft. Hood in Texas, says he is temporarily stepping…
UPI Asia reports: A key White House report is being kept from the lawyer for the Army psychiatrist charged in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military base, his lawyer says. The Army has also not provided all e-mails between suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and radical Muslim cleric…