Federal evidence review brings us information about a proposed change to Fed. R. Evid. 803(10), which by operation of Mil. R. Evid. 1102, will become “law” for courts-martial absent Presidential action (18 months after the effective date of any FRE amendment). This is an occasional issue in fraud and some…
Here is a link to a useful site all about DNA. And here is a link to the NIJ forensics site.
For those interested in the history of the Constitution and its judicial interpretation, the George Washington Law Review has a: COMMEMORATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF FARRAND’S RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION edition. Volume 80, No. 5, includes: A Dialogue on Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation The Honorable Antonin Scalia & John…
The Supreme Court of Oregon has revisited its 30-year old rule that allowed for admission of eyewitness identification resulting from “unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedures.” State v. Lawson consolidates two cases on the same issue, and decides en banc to recognize significant changes in the understanding and science of eyewitness…
The November/December issue of The Jury Expert is out and online. There are three items which deal with false confessions. The first has the intriguing title of “Only the Guilty Would Confess to Crimes” : Understanding the Mystery of False Confessions This is followed False Confessions: “I Can’t Believe I…
Here is a piece from Stars & Stripes about a Marine accused of sexual behavior with dogs as well as having child pornography.
Here is Bill Henderson on secession “petitions” and security clearances. DSS personnel have recently received questions from security personnel at cleared contractors about whether contractors should file adverse information reports pursuant to NISPOM paragraph 1-302 regarding cleared persons who sign petitions to allow a state to withdraw or secede from…
AP reports the following. Johnathan Montgomery spent the past four years in a Virginia state prison saying the same thing a lot of inmates do: He was innocent. Convicted in 2008 of molesting a 10-year-old girl outside her grandmother’s Hampton home when he was 14, he insisted the alleged 2000…
David Frum has this post in todays The Daily Beast. “The hard decisions are not not the ones you make in the heat of battle. Far harder to make are those involved in speaking your mind about some hare-brained scheme, which proposes to commit troops to action under conditions where…