Political Wires reports: A federal judge has said that "injustice" was done to a former Navy officer who was wrongly convicted with the help of a discredited military lab analyst, but he also concluded that the court can’t do anything about it. House had been a highly regarded officer, tapped…
Stars & Stripes reports: The number of reports of family violence within the military, which had been in decline over several years, has been rising over the last two years, and reports of abused children and spouses increased significantly last year, a report by the Defense Department’s Family Advocacy Program…
Here, courtesy of the great Professor Berman, is a case from Ohio, ruling that a state sex-offender registration law intended to comply with SORNA is unconstitutional under the state constitution. In a ruling with potential national implications even though based only on state law, the Ohio Supreme Court this morning…
The Confrontation Clause states that In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him… But does the Confrontation Clause cover only analytical and conclusory statements, or does it also cover "routine and descriptive and objectively ascertained and reliable facts?" According to a…
In a self-defense case it is proper, if available to introduce evidence that the alleged victim was the aggressor, etc. There are two general ways to do that. One of the most common issues to come up is specific instances of the alleged victim’s prior assaultive behavior. federalevidence blog has…
No, normally the best course of action is to persist with either the objection or what you are doing. In that situation it is hard or harder for an appellate court to later apply waiver. We make objections during a trial. Or an objection is made to something we are…
Temple Daily Telegraph reports: The attorney for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan has requested that Hasan face military court martial in March 2012. Hasan’s attorney John Galligan has also asked that Hasan be arraigned on Fort Hood on July 20.
Here is Professor Friedman The Great with initial thoughts.
Here is an advert for “Officer’s Oath” to be published by LTC Lakin in concert with Jack Cashill. I found this to be a curious assertion. [T]he handful of Terry’s detractors have been dwarfed by the mountain of supporters. Not all agree with his methods, but none have faulted his…
Army Times reports: Sgt. Mitchell Streeter was overwhelmed. Twice deployed, he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, unable to sleep, stressed out by his job as a recruiter, and now he was being forced out of the Army after a drunken-driving arrest. The story is much larger than that unfortunately.