Thanks to CAAFLog here’s a link to a short article in the Florida Courier about Phillip Mills the errant DNA examiner at USACIL and some impacts of his shoddy, lazy, and possibly manipulative work. Some highlights. In a 2001 Navy case, for instance, Mills didn’t examine a knife presented as…
Courtesy of CrimProfBlog: Jesse J. Norris (Beloit College) has posted Who Can Testify About Lab Results after Melendez-Diaz? The Challenge of Surrogate Testimony to the Confrontation Clause (American Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a…
Military.com reports: The top military commander in Afghanistan has suspended a commander and a helicopter crew during an investigation into possible civilian casualties in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar. DOD Sexual Assaults report for FY 2010. Fascinating information. Of 1759 alleged cases: 243 were unfounded by the investigative agency.…
21 March 2011 will see oral argument in Tolentino v. New York (linked to SCOTUSBlog). Issue: Whether pre-existing identity-related governmental documents, such as motor vehicle records, obtained as the direct result of police action violative of the Fourth Amendment, are subject to the exclusionary rule? SCOTUSBlog has an argument preview…
A lurker put me on to this blog, because of an item: Federal Government Compares Seminoles to Al Qaeda in Military Commissions Case.
United States v. Hartman. On Appellant’s petition, we granted review of the following issue: WHETHER APPELLANT’S CONVICTION UNDER ARTICLE 125, UCMJ, FOR CONSENSUAL SODOMY IN THE PRESENCE OF A THIRD PERSON VIOLATES THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse the decision…
Marine Corps Times reports: Thirty-five percent of first lieutenants vying for promotion this year were instead sent packing by a board tasked with tightening junior-officer ranks. . . . The February Career Designation Officer Review Board, the first of two that met in 2011, offered 449 first lieutenants, or 65…
Air Force Times reports a case of reach for the stars: Allan Poulin Jr. dreamed of flying a fighter and landed a job interview with an F-16 reserve unit. The squadron leadership didn’t want him. The wing commander offered Poulin a job anyway. Poulin struggled at Officer Training School. The…
It’s over. This years series of presentations was much better than previous years. The topics and speakers were much more relevant, while being sufficiently edgy at the same time. Gone are the days where a “prof” from TJAGSA would go through slides reporting the school’s view of “this years” military…
The court is gradually putting the handouts up on the website.