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Earlier comments on this subject are here and here. In particular here is the new NCIS policy. NCIS video/audio taping is not new as this report suggests — Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Fraud Interview Policies Similar to Other Federal Law Enforcement Agencies (Letter Report, 04/07/97, GAO/NSIAD-97-117). In fiscal year 1996, NCIS agents videotaped 56 interviews…

Courtesy of CAAFLog the agenda is online. You can register and pay your $50.00 online here at the JAA website. Unfortunately they have not yet posted specifics of the location of the Symposium at GMU Law.

2010 Judicial Conference and Continuing Legal Education Program March 10 – 11, 2010 The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law 3600 John McCormack Rd, NE Washington, DC

September 17, 2009 The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue A Look at 2008 and October 2009 Terms 10:30 am – 7:00 pm, Cato Conference To celebrate Constitution Day and the publication of the eighth volume of the annual Cato Supreme Court Review. DC Conference on the SCOTUS certiorari process The Yale Law School Supreme Court…

Uncertified drug dog was still qualified by track record The government [just barely] showed that the drug dog and the handler were “well qualified” (Illinois v. Caballes). While the dog was certified through 2006, it was not certified since, but its general reliability was enough. [Essentially, the handler can make the dog qualify by testifying…

The Air Force says an Alaska-based airman has been sentenced to 90 days confinement and 90 days hard labor for malingering — intentionally hurting oneself to avoid deployment. Army Times, 3 September 2009.

Here is a link to the brief in Briscoe v. Virginia. The case is a follow on to Crawford and Melendez-Diaz. Here is the Issue as reported by SCOTUSWiki. Briscoe v. Commonwealth of VA: If a state allows a prosecutor to introduce a certificate of a forensic laboratory analysis, without presenting the testimony of the…

For whatever reason it appears the military will stop (or reduce) profiling of journalists covering matters in Afghanistan. Here’s: Kevin Baron, Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition, Monday, August 31, 2009 RELATED STORIES: Army used profiles to reject reporters Pentagon: Reporter profiling under review Files prove Pentagon is profiling reporters Journalists’ recent work examined before embeds…

A decorated U.S. Soldier, from the State of Texas, filed suit today in U.S. Federal Court in Washington DC against a British Contractor for injuries sustained during a reckless shooting incident in Iraq. Former U.S. Army Sergeant Kadim Alkanani is suing London-based Aegis Defence Services Limited, for an incident on June 3, 2005, in which…

NMCAA’s decision in United States v. Johnson, NMCCA 200900141 (N.M. Ct. Crim. App. 25 August 2009), nicely sets out the courts view of when and how bad language is subject to prosecution as indecent. A totality of the circumstances factual and contextual test must be used it seems. The precise parameters of what constitutes indecent…