I’ve noted before that people get nervous when stopped and questioned by the police. Being nervous is not by itself a sign that the person is lying or a criminal or doing something wrong. Although of course NCIS/OSI/CID will often say it is so.
As the writer notes here,
The very presence of a police officer is, in most cases, enough to unnerve the general public. Think about how you respond when a police car appears in your rearview mirror.
The National District Attorney Association has a pending Third Edition to the National Prosecution Standards pending. You need a key to read it, gosh forbid the public might be allowed to know the standards, and perhaps comment on them.
Recruiters and fake high school graduation and home schooling certificates, and now this:
The U.S. Army is investigating soldiers who bought degrees from an illegal diploma mill that was based in Spokane and resulted in prison time for its operators.
The Army’s Human Resources Command is using a list of customers of the diploma mill operated by Dixie and Steve Randock obtained and posted online last summer by The Spokesman-Review.
Talking to a group of relaxing Soldiers former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld reiterated that you have to go to war in what you’ve got.
Military.com, 22 May 2009.
“Any soldier who goes into battle against the Taliban in pink boxers and flip-flops has a special kind of courage,” Rumsfeld Robert Gates said, adding that Specialist Zachary Boyd may have hit on a new kind of psychological warfare. “I can only wonder about the impact on the Taliban.
Wife Doubts PTSD Bigamy Excuse, Military.com, 22 May 2009.
A Missouri woman whose husband was cleared of bigamy said she does not believe his claim that post-traumatic stress disorder made him forget his marriage.
This week my technology item is PhoneTag.
PhoneTag is a fee based system to receive voicemails as a written email.
While on a business trip to Los Angeles in 2003, James Siminoff was out to dinner with friends. Before they could sit down, William had to sort through a 20 minute backlog of voicemails gathered during a day filled with meetings. Jesse commented to James, "Wouldn’t it be easier if you could just read your voicemail?" At the time, James was working with voice recognition technologies and had a creative idea on how to build a system that would enable people to stop listening to voicemail and READ IT. …and with that, PhoneTag was born.
United States v. Crabtree, No. 08-4411, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 10720(4th Cir. May 19, 2009).
In a published opinion the Fourth Circuit sides with the majority of federal circuit courts of appeal that there is no government “clean hands” exception to the receipt into evidence of unlawfully taped telephone calls.
Daniel Crabtree was sentenced to twenty-four months imprisonment for violating the terms of his supervised release. The government established some of the violations by introducing into evidence certain audio tapes that were made by Crabtree’s girlfriend in violation of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 2510 – 2522 (West 2000 & Supp. 2008). We agree with Crabtree that although the government was not involved in the interception of Crabtree’s conversations, Title III nonetheless prohibited the government from introducing evidence of the intercepted conversations. We therefore vacate the district court’s judgment and remand for further proceedings.
Here is Prof. Colin Miller’s comment on United States v. Yammine, decided by the NMCCA recently.
David Kocieniewski, Lawyer’s Ways Spelled Murder, U.S. Is Charging, NY Times, 20 May 2009.
He spent a decade as a top prosecutor, trying murder cases in New Jersey, drug cases in federal court and a wide range of offenses in the military justice system.
He went on to become one of the state’s most prominent defense lawyers, representing clients as varied as Abu Ghraib defendants,. . .
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Repeal, Don’t Defend:
In today’s WSJ, Brian Hughes, a former Army Ranger twice awarded the Commendation Medal, makes a powerful case for ending "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
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