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Every now and again a client wants to object to giving a DNA sample once at the Brig. Objections based on religion, the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and the Fifth Amendment, won't work.
Investigation ("FBI") established the Combined DNA Index System
This issue of journalists and privilege — and considerations of a Shield Law – is not new to military practice.
A proposed privilege is circulating around Congress and other high offices.
Here is a piece by Prof. Colin Miller of Evidence Prof Blog, writing this time for the Yale Law Journal's Pocket Part — A Public Privilege.
You have to love it, Thomas E. Ricks, Throwing money away from the problem, The New ForeignPolicy.com, 9 March 2009.
Remember, do not take fees in cash or by check from a client such as this. Get it on plastic, or from a relatives own funds.
There are several times in a trial when I might ask the judge for a no contact order, to sequester witnesses, or to prohibit witness contact during a break or recess in the trial.
I have a fairly standard format for rape and child abuse cases. These in my experience are the cases where the opportunity for witness contamination is at its apogee. Oftentimes you are arriving on the scene too late as the defense counsel because most of the damage has already been done. However, you should still be attempting to minimize damage. For the moment though I wanted to focus on what happens in trial when there is a break in the trial and a witness is still on the witness stand either for their direct, their cross-examination, their redirect, or might be back for rebuttal. And this point works both ways — for defense and for government.
My personal belief is that once someone has begun their testimony no-one should talk to them and they should be told by the judge not to talk with anyone, including talking with the lawyer who called them. I always ask that of the judge when a prosecution witness is involved, and I always tell that to my own witnesses if it happens to us. There are too many ways subtle and not so subtle that a person can respond to the "how am I doing question," for example.
Here’s a interesting reference to the Siegelman political prosecution case.
No Reversal Despite Juror Exposure To Internet Information, Media Accounts And E-mail, 10 March 2009.
The Supreme Court has decided Vermont v. Brillon.
The case is a Sixth Amendment speedy trial case.
The significant delays in the accused getting to trial were caused by Brillon's public defender counsel or himself. The bottom line issue is who is accountable for those delays — the government or the defense.
Prof. Colin Miller, Can I Get A(n Eye) Witness: 60 Minutes Story Exposes Problems With Eyewitness IDs, Evidence Prof Blog, 9 March 2009.
And the answer is, "Not very." The story detailed how Jennifer Thompson
Worth the read is Gustav Eyler, Gangs in the Military, 118 Yale L. J. 696 (2009).
Rod Powers, Gang Activity in the U.S. Military, About.com, 12 February 2008.
American Chronicle reports that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has proposed legislation called the Terrorist Detainees Procedures Act.
Here is the link to H.R. 1315.
Here is a link to the congressman's Guantanamo Detainees Procedures Act of 2005.
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