Court-Martial Trial Practice

Many years ago we sought to improve our counsel performance at NLSO Norfolk with developing checklists, protocols, and a PQS system. It seemed to work. Now here is an article, Darryl K. Brown, Defense Counsel, Trial Judges, and Evidence Protocols, Brown, Darryl K., Defense Counsel, Trial Judges, and Evidence Protocols, Texas Tech Law Review, Vol.…

The Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals is tragically behind in timely action on pending and future court-martial appeals. The military appellate courts, so far have declined to take action to release an appellant pending appeal. The Canadians set a the example. A Standing Court Martial today sentenced Captain Daniel Moriarity, a Cadet Instructors Cadre…

Maybe. It depends on state law – one party, all party permission; are you in a SCIF; or are you and the activity covered by 18 U. S. Code 2511?

Transition of the Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO) to the Department of Defense Central Adjudicative Facility (CAF) Effective Oct. 27, 2012, the Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO) will migrate to the DOD CAF [Central Adjudication Facility]. As a result of this migration a new version of the Joint Personnel Adjudication System (JPAS) will…

Federal evidence review brings us information about a proposed change to Fed. R. Evid. 803(10), which by operation of Mil. R. Evid. 1102, will become “law” for courts-martial absent Presidential action (18 months after the effective date of any FRE amendment). This is an occasional issue in fraud and some theft cases. [T]he draft amendment…

Here is a link to a useful site all about DNA. And here is a link to the NIJ forensics site.

For those interested in the history of the Constitution and its judicial interpretation, the George Washington Law Review has a: COMMEMORATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF FARRAND’S RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION edition. Volume 80, No. 5, includes: A Dialogue on Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation The Honorable Antonin Scalia & John F. Manning 80 GEO. WASH.…

The Supreme Court of Oregon has revisited its 30-year old rule that allowed for admission of eyewitness identification resulting from “unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedures.” State v. Lawson consolidates two cases on the same issue, and decides en banc to recognize significant changes in the understanding and science of eyewitness identification. The court discussed State…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

The November/December issue of The Jury Expert is out and online. There are three items which deal with false confessions. The first has the intriguing title of “Only the Guilty Would Confess to Crimes” : Understanding the Mystery of False Confessions This is followed False Confessions: “I Can’t Believe I Said That” by Diane Wiley,…