Professor Friedman has posted the States’ amicus brief in Bullcoming v. New Mexico, along with some rather trenchant dissection of their sky-is-falling and we-are-the-government arguments.
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Prof. Friedman links to the respondents’s brief in Bullcoming v. New Mexico.
Continue reading ›Here is an observation by federalevidence.com: One issue raised by the new case concerns whether a majority of the Court still supports the Confrontation Clause analysis established under Crawford v. Washington in 2004, and Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts in 2009. Two Justices who voted in the majority (John Paul Stevens and David H. Souter) have since…
Continue reading ›United States v. Blazier was argued at CAAF and you can hear the oral argument at this link. The U. S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Bullcoming v. New Mexico. Courtesy of CAAFLog here is the granted issue: Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce testimonial statements of a nontestifying forensic analyst…
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