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Updated:
The tipsy judge? I don’t think so, but possibly an unfortunate meme
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Updated:
Not in the military – mostly
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Updated:
An unusual summary disposition
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Updated:
Just over the transom from NACDL
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Updated:
Retirees for courts-martial anyone?
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Updated:
A prosecutor’s duty
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Updated:
Leiber Code-this day in history
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Updated:
How to deal with–at all–devastating collateral consequences to combat operations
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Updated:
Social media problems
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Updated:
The title: Strengthening Children’s Safety Act closes loopholes
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Updated:
CAAF personnel moves
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Updated:
Backgrounders
:
Updated:
“Justice” Gorsuch-Worth-the-Read
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Updated:
Double jeopardy
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Updated:
A court-martial is not a gymkana
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Updated:
Case to watch–jury nullification
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Updated:
Finally, ACCA agrees that MRE 412 applies to the prosecution as well
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Updated:
Discovery (in Virginia)
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Updated:
Not much, but something
:
Updated:
Worth the Read for the weekend
:
Updated:
Two new case results
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Updated:
Chelsea Manning’s sentence commuted by the President
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Updated:
It does make you wonder . . . over to you
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Updated:
Three new SCOTUS grants of potential interest
:
Updated:
A fence a structure does not make
:
Updated:
Military justice news — from Arkansas
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Updated:
Deathly news
:
Updated:
A chilling thought for all Air Force sexual assault trials?
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Updated:
Today history is prologue
:
Updated:
Are searches of a suspects cellphone too broad
:
Updated:
Such Want of Ungentlemanly Conduct — Worth the Read
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Updated:
If true, a disturbing practice in AF courts-martial involving SVC’s.
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Updated:
Appellate (and trial) advocacy
:
Updated:
Supreme Court grants of interest to military justice practitioners
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Updated:
A military judge’s disqualification–always an issue?
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Updated:
by cherry-picking which facts to air, a producer can energize an ignorant populism fueled by illusory knowledge.
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Updated:
DoD 2016 Military Investigation and Justice Experience Survey
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Updated:
Supreme Court gossip
:
Updated:
Medical privileges overseas-WorthTheRead
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Updated:
Appellate advocacy CLE opportunity
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Updated:
It has to be pretty bad
:
Updated:
Nope, apparently not looking for Bergdahl the Army says
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Updated:
Hennis decided–findings and sentence affirmed
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Updated:
Odd specified issue at CAAF
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Updated:
Federal Register items of interest for SAPR issues
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Updated:
United States v. Hills applies to MRE 414 as well
:
Updated:
Sentence Relief-Worth the Read
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Updated:
Junk Science Reigns
:
Updated:
No surprise here
:
Updated:
Continuance denied
:
Updated:
Check the post-trial victim impact statements
:
Updated:
Check the warrant
:
Updated:
Why Do We Have No Clue How Often Rape Is Happening
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Updated:
Worth the read–false complaints
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Updated:
Worth the read–about UCMJ art. 32
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Updated:
New NMCCA cases worth the read
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Updated:
How can this happen
:
Updated:
Oooops
:
Updated:
If
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Updated:
Judicial umpiring-WTR
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Updated:
How broad is the evidentiary privilege in MRE 513
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Updated:
Prosecutors must disclose Brady-plus material about police misconduct
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Updated:
Don’t do it, but according to ACCA it may not be a crime
:
Updated:
Worth the read about false confessions and prosecutorial power
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Updated:
Military appellate court websites
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Updated:
Army Lawyer-WTR
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Updated:
Military Law Review-WTR
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Updated:
Hooray
:
Updated:
Sentencing in CP cases
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Updated:
It’s just sad
:
Updated:
Worth the Read on military prosecutors
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Updated:
Yes, Denedo, there really are collateral consequences
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Updated:
JPP on, on, on
:
Updated:
In Canada, sexual misconduct is inappropriate-is it?
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Updated:
Now what, the appeal is done
:
Updated:
In China they devalue currency. In the U.S. military they devalue your rights?
:
Updated:
Is the “victim” a “party” to the proceeding so that MRE 801(d)(2) applies to her
:
Updated:
Can the prosecution violate MRE 412
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Updated:
Subject to interpretation–WTR
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Updated:
New Navy rules for Transition payments to abused dependents
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Updated:
News on mental health related administrative discharges
:
Updated:
Did DoD lie to Sen. Gillibrand
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Updated:
Otherwise unaware
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Updated:
Retaliation is bad, but what is it
:
Updated:
Another prosecution error in argument
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Updated:
A word to the unprepared
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Updated:
A word to the unwise
:
Updated:
Just a reminder–IAC possibly on sentencing
:
Updated:
Sexual assault and law of war-worth the read
:
Updated:
It’s hearsay-worth the read
:
Updated:
Borderline personality disorder
:
Updated:
2016 MCM Executive Order
:
Updated:
Thought for the day
:
Updated:
The minutiae and such
:
Updated:
Exhaustion
:
Updated:
Words of wisdom
:
Updated:
UCI is back in focus
:
Updated:
Members problems
:
Updated:
Troubling, very troubling
:
Updated:
New issues
:
Updated:
Best practices
:
Updated:
A decision from the 10th that might be applicable to military parolees
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Updated:
Pay issue on rehearing
:
Updated:
Change in the offing-again
:
Updated:
All too common, and potentially applicable to military investigators
:
Updated:
Why worry what’s on your phone
:
Updated:
Fraternization and GoD
:
Updated:
Its a question of reliability
:
Updated:
Getting the expert is just part of the process
:
Updated:
By the numbers
:
Updated:
Worth the Read
:
Updated:
Clemency from the Prez.
:
Updated:
Prosecutorial practice
:
Updated:
A powerful reminder
:
Updated:
On the wild side and off topice
:
Updated:
Brady points
:
Updated:
Some commentary to ALI proposed changes in sexual assault cases
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Updated:
Garcia not guilty on retrial
:
Updated:
Sex Offender Treatment-Miramar
:
Updated:
A positive result
:
Updated:
If
:
Updated:
WTR-Military Law Review articles
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Updated:
WTR-Military Law Review
:
Updated:
Sexual assaults and improper relationships
:
Updated:
Huuum.
:
Updated:
Military Justice Review Group-Part 1-UCMJ
:
Updated:
Bergdahl-trial item 1
:
Updated:
Who prosecutes
:
Updated:
Sue her–ahem, them
:
Updated:
Overbreadth in sexual assault laws
:
Updated:
Prosecutors and wrongful convictions-WTR
:
Updated:
Coaching of child witnesses-WTR
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Updated:
“How stories deceive” if we believe the storyteller.
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Updated:
Interrogation and False Confessions in Rape Cases
:
Updated:
Pardons and clemency
:
Updated:
Neglecting the rights of an accused–WTR
:
Updated:
Schloff v. United States–petition filed.
:
Updated:
Bergdahl and Serial Season 2
:
Updated:
Put pen to paper, or tap a few keys
:
Updated:
What do I say to you?
:
Updated:
Interesting AFCCA comment on adultery
:
Updated:
Interesting data?
:
Updated:
Private search of computers
:
Updated:
News of the Weird?
:
Updated:
In the Supremes
:
Updated:
A question of judge and jury impartiality–conflict
:
Updated:
Not CSI, but is it even close
:
Updated:
ALAS, POOR TRUTH, WE KNEW YOU
:
Updated:
Can DNA really prove much?
:
Updated:
Recording while having sex
:
Updated:
SAPR—suppression of dissent?
:
Updated:
NCIS violates the Posse Comitatus Act–no problem
:
Updated:
Pinkela update
:
Updated:
Transparency in military justice
:
Updated:
Bergdahl-CAAF-gov.response
:
Updated:
Bergdhal-NBC amicus
:
Updated:
New rules, maybe
:
Updated:
Burke v. Bergdahl litigation update
:
Updated:
WorthTheRead from Vanderbilt Law
:
Updated:
WorthTheRead-complexities of good time credit
:
Updated:
Bergdahl v. Burke update with latest CAAF filing
:
Updated:
WorthTheRead–apology made
:
Updated:
Interesting AF PTA case
:
Updated:
Even in Canada
:
Updated:
More AF certificates to CAAF
:
Updated:
Schloff update
:
Updated:
WorthTheRead-MRE 305
:
Updated:
WorthTheRead–OHCHR
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Updated:
Another get out of trouble note, or a good idea?
:
Updated:
WorthTheRead-Schlueter on Commanders and Sex
:
Updated:
Schloff update
:
Updated:
A quick resolution of the sentence rehearing issue
:
Updated:
Need we say more
:
Updated:
Bergdahl v. Burke
:
Updated:
Add this to concerns about EMDR
:
Updated:
Oh please. . .
:
Updated:
It took how long?
:
Updated:
Those pesky OSI/NCIS/CID/agents are lying, or not
:
Updated:
Is that government testifying about reliable psychological testimony
:
Updated:
Sex assault-alcohol blackouts-and memory
:
Updated:
A not uncommon question
:
Updated:
Worth-the-read
:
Updated:
Spousal privilege
:
Updated:
Latorre redux
:
Updated:
Worth-some-study: Future effect of technology
:
Updated:
Ancient effect of technology
:
Updated:
Latorre rising aborted
:
Updated:
Yes they can–yes the CCA can order a sentence-only rehearing
:
Updated:
A prosecutor’s duty
:
Updated:
Quote of the day-week-year
:
Updated:
Worth the Read from Military Law Review
:
Updated:
I thought prosecutors knew they couldn’t comment on exercise of right to silence
:
Updated:
Worth the Read-Brady issues
:
Updated:
Worth the Read
:
Updated:
Motive to fabricate-a short explanation
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Updated:
Worth the Read–Cellphones
:
Updated:
Interesting reading on drunk sex accusations
:
Updated:
An interesting civil action
:
Updated:
New CAAF grant
:
Updated:
New CAAF grant
:
Updated:
An interesting confrontation issue
:
Updated:
Interesting FL case on SOR
:
Updated:
DOD IG semiannual report
:
Updated:
Today is leg day
:
Updated:
CAAF on jurisdictio
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
CAAF’s decision in Woods does not support MJIA
:
Updated:
An interesting perspective
:
Updated:
Opening the door-or keeping it closed
:
Updated:
Manual for Courts-Martial-new
:
Updated:
I wonder if Sen. G knows?
:
Updated:
Prosecution misconduct
:
Updated:
Did your lawyer tell you about clemency and parole?
:
Updated:
Another one bites the dust`
:
Updated:
How extensive is the Brady obligation
:
Updated:
False reports and false claims
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
A long trail
:
Updated:
This is important to today as well
:
Updated:
A collateral effect of the “new” Article 32 PH
:
Updated:
Sergeant Captain may have some major issues
:
Updated:
When process is due–you might get a little more
:
Updated:
USvPlant oral argument
:
Updated:
Can you succeed on appeal in a sexual assault case?
:
Updated:
DD214 numbers
:
Updated:
Heads up on soliciting donations-recruiters-instructors beware
:
Updated:
Is there an SVC crisis?
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Maoist indoctrination?
:
Updated:
Quick note about Quick sentence reassessment
:
Updated:
Recovered memory-or-making it up?
:
Updated:
More on prosecutorial discretion-and why discovery is important
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Government charging-lack of preparation and caring
:
Updated:
Army 32 Procedures
:
Updated:
Distinguish between volition and memory-lack of memory doesn’t mean lack of volition
:
Updated:
Cell tower positioning
:
Updated:
Collateral consequences of being Titled
:
Updated:
Overcharging conspiracy
:
Updated:
Using SVC statements against. . .
:
Updated:
More refusniks to be deported
:
Updated:
Soft precedent or something else
:
Updated:
An interesting certification
:
Updated:
A history note
:
Updated:
I have to wonder
:
Updated:
The Burris trial
:
Updated:
Less rapes nationwide
:
Updated:
A reminder to appellate counsel
:
Updated:
Prosecutor discipline?
:
Updated:
Worth your read-pretrial agreements
:
Updated:
Worth the watch –
:
Updated:
Is it IAC
:
Updated:
More bullets for you less for the enemy
:
Updated:
Worth the read for your weekend
:
Updated:
Social media as evidence
:
Updated:
Worth the read for a coming weekend
:
Updated:
An important reminder of what is inconsistent
:
Updated:
Sexual misconduct in the Brig
:
Updated:
Military justice humour
:
Updated:
For your calendar
:
Updated:
NIMJ writing awards
:
Updated:
NCIS chief interviewed
:
Updated:
Up periscope under the radar
:
Updated:
Thinking upgrade
:
Updated:
Test
:
Updated:
Military justice changes coming?
:
Updated:
Light-heavy-worth the read
:
Updated:
Making an objection or motion
:
Updated:
French leave
:
Updated:
Transparency
:
Updated:
Bilged by a marine
:
Updated:
Why have courts-martials-a worth the read
:
Updated:
Free and unfettered speech-not
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Ban the ban on extrinsic impeachment evidence
:
Updated:
Being drunk and being incapacitated aren’t the same
:
Updated:
Prosecutorial error and best practices
:
Updated:
IAC by not filing motions
:
Updated:
Erotic asphyxiation-the choking game
:
Updated:
In the Supremes-Ohio v. Clark-watch for it
:
Updated:
That’s him!
:
Updated:
Stacked deck
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
A mixed but really good result?
:
Updated:
CP distribution?
:
Updated:
They’ve already made up their minds
:
Updated:
Prosecutors favorite-we’ve always done it that way
:
Updated:
The ambiguity of consent or lack of consent in sexual assault cases
:
Updated:
An interesting military medical benefits case
:
Updated:
Up periscope
:
Updated:
Men are victims too
:
Updated:
Political prosecutorial overreach
:
Updated:
The best evidence is the best evidence
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Providence shines down or upon
:
Updated:
Can victims limit prosecutorial discretion
:
Updated:
New CAAF grant
:
Updated:
LRM rises . . .
:
Updated:
The older the worse
:
Updated:
Benchbooks and Instructions
:
Updated:
The Military Rules of Evidence
:
Updated:
It’s not a privilege children have
:
Updated:
A new trial gained
:
Updated:
Searching cell phones, even of the arrested requires a warrant
:
Updated:
Reversal rate on appeal
:
Updated:
I object, well I thought I did
:
Updated:
Drug induced psychosis as a defense
:
Updated:
More Grosty
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Leaders must watch their words on military sexual assault
:
Updated:
An update on the Pendleton search case
:
Updated:
Grosty
:
Updated:
A resource
:
Updated:
Conviction at CM can qualify under the ACCA
:
Updated:
The Bergdahl Affair? ils accusent
:
Updated:
A broader definition of CP?
:
Updated:
Grostefon issues win – sometimes – sort of
:
Updated:
Real and to be expected?
:
Updated:
An appeals court cannot take judicial notice of an element of the offense
:
Updated:
Confrontation confrontation
:
Updated:
Navy self reporting–Redux
:
Updated:
Enlisted retired grade-after a grade reduction event
:
Updated:
Prosecutorial discretion
:
Updated:
To be expected
:
Updated:
Human Lie Detector’s-Not!
:
Updated:
Interesting AF stats on military justice
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Statute of limitations
:
Updated:
Improvements in eyewitness identification
:
Updated:
Why wrongful convictions
:
Updated:
Center for prosecutor integrity-a resource and concerns
:
Updated:
There is an impact
:
Updated:
On consent to sexual activity
:
Updated:
Some evidence notes
:
Updated:
Still in flux?
:
Updated:
It’s a privilege
:
Updated:
Trial craft
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Comment on silence
:
Updated:
Prior false reports?
:
Updated:
Keeping up
:
Updated:
Members selection
:
Updated:
Forensic science reform news
:
Updated:
Just in – LOL
:
Updated:
Merely a collateral consequence?
:
Updated:
Not a surprise
:
Updated:
Is there an argument here?
:
Updated:
Biased brains
:
Updated:
Should you believe the statistics
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
What’s good for the police might be good for you
:
Updated:
Is it harder?
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Impeachment with prior inconsistent
:
Updated:
who is the victim
:
Updated:
Beware trial defense counsel
:
Updated:
In the Supremes
:
Updated:
Good character is admissible
:
Updated:
A resource
:
Updated:
Two years of federal evidence
:
Updated:
Humor in uniform
:
Updated:
National Prosecution Standards
:
Updated:
A little more on forensics
:
Updated:
I don’t remember
:
Updated:
You got mail*
:
Updated:
More like them
:
Updated:
Labs again?
:
Updated:
It depends
:
Updated:
State dependent
:
Updated:
A cautionary tale
:
Updated:
On the confrontation front
:
Updated:
Tool box update
:
Updated:
The SVC said it
:
Updated:
More from King Hercules
:
Updated:
There is an epidemic of Brady violations abroad in the land. Only judges can put a stop to it.
:
Updated:
Center for Prosecutor Integrity
:
Updated:
Grab a headline
:
Updated:
A small nit about sealed records
:
Updated:
You lied to me
:
Updated:
Give them to the civilians
:
Updated:
Not wanted —
:
Updated:
No CSI here
:
Updated:
Prosecutor misconduct data bank
:
Updated:
No bar
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Human error
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
He lied, he lied, he lied
:
Updated:
The continuing problems of law enforcement testimony
:
Updated:
Spoilation of evidence
:
Updated:
Testimony too far
:
Updated:
Preserving error
:
Updated:
I could have sworn*
:
Updated:
Non curative instructions
:
Updated:
Forensic junk science
:
Updated:
But sir, it wasn’t me!
:
Updated:
Sexual assault counsellors in the news
:
Updated:
Failure to investigate
:
Updated:
Submission to authority
:
Updated:
Eyewitness testimony resource?
:
Updated:
Time on your hands
:
Updated:
Encrypted files and drives
:
Updated:
Filed today
:
Updated:
UCMJ amended
:
Updated:
Collateral effects
:
Updated:
False-Coerced confessions while medicated
:
Updated:
Trust us with your life and career
:
Updated:
The terminal element
:
Updated:
How good is DNA
:
Updated:
JAGs in the news
:
Updated:
Is there a reporter’s privilege
:
Updated:
Duh, why the surprise
:
Updated:
Gosh, who would have guessed
:
Updated:
Ooooops
:
Updated:
Different needs
:
Updated:
Thumb on the keys
:
Updated:
Unimpeachable source
:
Updated:
Object I say. . .
:
Updated:
The Marine UCI
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Crawford-not a surrogate
:
Updated:
Do women lie about rape
:
Updated:
Right to present a defense
:
Updated:
Allowance frauds
:
Updated:
Over-egging the argument
:
Updated:
Prosecutorial misconduct
:
Updated:
History in the making
:
Updated:
Most recent Manual changes
:
Updated:
Sexual assault legislation
:
Updated:
Enforcing Brady?
:
Updated:
More on Brady
:
Updated:
Ask the members
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Reasonable expectations
:
Updated:
No probation? Why not?
:
Updated:
Resource
:
Updated:
Confrontation and lab reports
:
Updated:
Circumstantial evidence
:
Updated:
Crawford and forensics
:
Updated:
Who is the proponent
:
Updated:
Always worth the read
:
Updated:
Confrontation on court records
:
Updated:
Appellate judicial notice
:
Updated:
Intoxiliezer
:
Updated:
Of course they are nervous
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Prior inconsistent
:
Updated:
Unpublished opinions
:
Updated:
Improper trial counsel argument
:
Updated:
Got a forensic science issue
:
Updated:
Instructions-withdrawal from a conspiracy
:
Updated:
Changes in prior consistent statements
:
Updated:
Is a complaining witness’s prior sexual misconduct admissible
:
Updated:
Hashing
:
Updated:
A reminder
:
Updated:
Amendments to Sec. 8, MRE
:
Updated:
404(b)-403-Oh, never mind-it comes in
:
Updated:
Not a surprise
:
Updated:
The Perils of Eyewitness Testimony
:
Updated:
Notice under MRE 404(b)
:
Updated:
Warning and reminder
:
Updated:
Evidence issues for 2013
:
Updated:
But your honor!
:
Updated:
You must have the right witness
:
Updated:
CP and 414
:
Updated:
More on eyewitnesses
:
Updated:
Rights waivers
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