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Conflict of interest–at The Supremes
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Shaken baby syndrome–WTR
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How to decide what was decided in split decision with multiple opinions
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Task Force Purple Harbor
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Deliberate ignorance?
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Getting the cell phone
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A good mixed result
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Updated:
The perils of sex offender registration for defense counsel
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Updated:
The BH-8 case continues to fizzle
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Updated:
Eyewitness identification for the defense and trial counsel
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Updated:
What do you think?
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Updated:
UCI in the jury box
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Updated:
The sager comes to an end
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Pretrial agreement terms
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Updated:
Discovery failures
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Updated:
CLE required in your state, come to Williamsburg, VA
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Prosecutor games
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Updated:
Worth the Read
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Updated:
Victim impact input prior to sentencing
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Updated:
Just interesting
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Updated:
Ongoing military death case
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Updated:
Military courts in the future
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Updated:
Ineffective assistance of counsel
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Updated:
Appellate deadlines and deadlines
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I quote
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CAAF at work
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Updated:
Andrew McCarthy writes in National Review
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Marine general officer–lawyer–sent to jail
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Updated:
Navy collisions at sea
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Updated:
Interesting view of courts-martial in federal court
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Updated:
Mens rea in military criminal statutes or charges
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Updated:
A rampant problem in courts-martial? — WTR
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Updated:
False rape accusations
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Updated:
A looooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time coming
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Are there perils in statutory interpretation at trial or on appeal
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Updated:
Two CAAF cases to watch
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Updated:
Judge Kopf ruminates on Brady and Giglio — Worth-The-Read
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Sentencing
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Updated:
An unguide to the perplexed
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Updated:
The Terlap sentencing issue
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Updated:
A piece of history
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Updated:
Dubay hearings in the news
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Sentence appropriateness on appeal
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Updated:
Government appeals
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Updated:
Federal incarceration Costs Significantly More than Supervision
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Updated:
Can there be a foul but no harm
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More cases coming?
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Updated:
Pending change to federal rules of evidence
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Updated:
DNA may be too good and convict the innocent
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Updated:
An interesting justification for a Brady violation
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Updated:
A resource for Virginia’s veterans
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Updated:
CAAF grants and sets-aside, with a remand
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Updated:
A possible new development with vet’s and PTSD
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Updated:
Two new Navy instructions of interest
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Updated:
Challenge to sex offender registration in Pennsylvania
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Updated:
UCMJ and MCM changes coming
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Updated:
Copious rations and heaping servings
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Updated:
Note for appellate counsel
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Updated:
Supreme Court invalidates ban on social media for sex offenders
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Updated:
How difficult is it to get a federal court to overturn a court-martial conviction
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Updated:
No, sorry
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Updated:
Collateral consequences
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Updated:
And now for something completely different
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Is there racial disparity in disciplinary actions within the Armed Services
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Outrageous prosecuting conduct leads to a reversal at NMCCA
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Updated:
U.S. ooops, Canadian, courts-martial
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Updated:
Supplement on investigations into law of war violations
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Updated:
Comparing a British Army court-martial
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Updated:
DNA may not be all it can be
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Updated:
Where is the SVC
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Updated:
Worth the Read
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Updated:
A Hills-Hukill trailer of interest
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Updated:
Who decides–a lawyer or a not a lawyer
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Updated:
More on Marine nude postings-Protecting the Rights of IndiViduals Against Technological Exploitation, or PRIVATE Act
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The tipsy judge? I don’t think so, but possibly an unfortunate meme
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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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How to deal with–at all–devastating collateral consequences to combat operations
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Social media problems
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The title: Strengthening Children’s Safety Act closes loopholes
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CAAF personnel moves
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Backgrounders
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Updated:
“Justice” Gorsuch-Worth-the-Read
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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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Discovery (in Virginia)
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Updated:
Not much, but something
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Updated:
Worth the Read for the weekend
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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
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Updated:
A fence a structure does not make
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Updated:
Military justice news — from Arkansas
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Updated:
Deathly news
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Updated:
A chilling thought for all Air Force sexual assault trials?
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Today history is prologue
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Updated:
Are searches of a suspects cellphone too broad
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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
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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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DoD 2016 Military Investigation and Justice Experience Survey
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Supreme Court gossip
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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
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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
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Updated:
Sentence Relief-Worth the Read
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Updated:
Junk Science Reigns
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Updated:
No surprise here
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Updated:
Continuance denied
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Updated:
Check the post-trial victim impact statements
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Updated:
Check the warrant
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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
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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
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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
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Updated:
In Canada, sexual misconduct is inappropriate-is it?
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Updated:
Now what, the appeal is done
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Updated:
In China they devalue currency. In the U.S. military they devalue your rights?
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Updated:
Is the “victim” a “party” to the proceeding so that MRE 801(d)(2) applies to her
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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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Otherwise unaware
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Updated:
Retaliation is bad, but what is it
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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
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Updated:
Just a reminder–IAC possibly on sentencing
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Updated:
Sexual assault and law of war-worth the read
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Updated:
It’s hearsay-worth the read
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Updated:
Borderline personality disorder
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Updated:
2016 MCM Executive Order
:
Updated:
Thought for the day
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Updated:
The minutiae and such
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Updated:
Exhaustion
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Updated:
Words of wisdom
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Updated:
UCI is back in focus
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Updated:
Members problems
:
Updated:
Troubling, very troubling
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Updated:
New issues
:
Updated:
Best practices
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Updated:
A decision from the 10th that might be applicable to military parolees
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Updated:
Pay issue on rehearing
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Updated:
Change in the offing-again
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Updated:
All too common, and potentially applicable to military investigators
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Updated:
Why worry what’s on your phone
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Updated:
Fraternization and GoD
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Updated:
Its a question of reliability
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Updated:
Getting the expert is just part of the process
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Updated:
By the numbers
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Updated:
Worth the Read
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Updated:
Clemency from the Prez.
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Updated:
Prosecutorial practice
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Updated:
A powerful reminder
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Updated:
On the wild side and off topice
:
Updated:
Brady points
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Updated:
Some commentary to ALI proposed changes in sexual assault cases
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Updated:
Garcia not guilty on retrial
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Updated:
Sex Offender Treatment-Miramar
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Updated:
A positive result
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Updated:
If
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Updated:
WTR-Military Law Review articles
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Updated:
WTR-Military Law Review
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Updated:
Sexual assaults and improper relationships
:
Updated:
Huuum.
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Updated:
Military Justice Review Group-Part 1-UCMJ
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Updated:
Bergdahl-trial item 1
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Updated:
Who prosecutes
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Updated:
Sue her–ahem, them
:
Updated:
Overbreadth in sexual assault laws
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Updated:
Prosecutors and wrongful convictions-WTR
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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
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Updated:
Pardons and clemency
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Updated:
Neglecting the rights of an accused–WTR
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Updated:
Schloff v. United States–petition filed.
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Updated:
Bergdahl and Serial Season 2
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Updated:
Put pen to paper, or tap a few keys
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Updated:
What do I say to you?
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Updated:
Interesting AFCCA comment on adultery
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Updated:
Interesting data?
:
Updated:
Private search of computers
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Updated:
News of the Weird?
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Updated:
In the Supremes
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Updated:
A question of judge and jury impartiality–conflict
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Updated:
Not CSI, but is it even close
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Updated:
ALAS, POOR TRUTH, WE KNEW YOU
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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
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Updated:
Pinkela update
:
Updated:
Transparency in military justice
:
Updated:
Bergdahl-CAAF-gov.response
:
Updated:
Bergdhal-NBC amicus
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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
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Updated:
Even in Canada
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Updated:
More AF certificates to CAAF
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Updated:
Schloff update
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Updated:
WorthTheRead-MRE 305
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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
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Updated:
Schloff update
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Updated:
A quick resolution of the sentence rehearing issue
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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
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Updated:
Sex assault-alcohol blackouts-and memory
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Updated:
A not uncommon question
:
Updated:
Worth-the-read
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Updated:
Spousal privilege
:
Updated:
Latorre redux
:
Updated:
Worth-some-study: Future effect of technology
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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
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Updated:
Worth the Read from Military Law Review
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Updated:
I thought prosecutors knew they couldn’t comment on exercise of right to silence
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Updated:
Worth the Read-Brady issues
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Updated:
Worth the Read
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Updated:
Motive to fabricate-a short explanation
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Updated:
Worth the Read–Cellphones
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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
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Updated:
Interesting FL case on SOR
:
Updated:
DOD IG semiannual report
:
Updated:
Today is leg day
:
Updated:
CAAF on jurisdictio
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Updated:
Worth the read
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Updated:
CAAF’s decision in Woods does not support MJIA
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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 –
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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
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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
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Updated:
NIMJ writing awards
:
Updated:
NCIS chief interviewed
:
Updated:
Up periscope under the radar
:
Updated:
Thinking upgrade
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Updated:
Test
:
Updated:
Military justice changes coming?
:
Updated:
Light-heavy-worth the read
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Updated:
Making an objection or motion
:
Updated:
French leave
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Updated:
Transparency
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Updated:
Bilged by a marine
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Updated:
Why have courts-martials-a worth the read
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Updated:
Free and unfettered speech-not
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Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Ban the ban on extrinsic impeachment evidence
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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
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Updated:
In the Supremes-Ohio v. Clark-watch for it
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Updated:
That’s him!
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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
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Updated:
Men are victims too
:
Updated:
Political prosecutorial overreach
:
Updated:
The best evidence is the best evidence
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Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Providence shines down or upon
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Updated:
Can victims limit prosecutorial discretion
:
Updated:
New CAAF grant
:
Updated:
LRM rises . . .
:
Updated:
The older the worse
:
Updated:
Benchbooks and Instructions
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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
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Updated:
More Grosty
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Leaders must watch their words on military sexual assault
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Updated:
An update on the Pendleton search case
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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
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Updated:
Trial craft
:
Updated:
Worth the read
:
Updated:
Comment on silence
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Updated:
Prior false reports?
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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
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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
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