Monday, October 15, 2012

Three decisions from the California Supreme Court on forensic reports

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The California Supreme Court issued three decisions today on the Confrontation Clause and forensic reports.  Two of them divided the court a...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Source of the "targeted individual" test?

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I hope to be offering more commentary on Williams within a few days.  Meanwhile, perhaps I can offer a solution to one mystery.  Justice Ka...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Thoughts on Williams, Part I: Reasons to Think the Impact May be Limited

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Here is a first installment of preliminary thoughts on Williams . Obviously, I think the result is unfortunate; I think Williams should hav...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Petition in Rose denied

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I hadn't seen the order list before, but now I have. The etition for certiorari that I filed in Rose was indeed denied. So I guess th...
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Opinions in Williams

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You can read the opininos in Williams v. Illinois by clicking here . Commentary from me later.
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Williams affirmed without majority opinion

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Scotusblog reports that Williams was affirmed 5t-4, with Justice Alito writing for four justices (the Melendez-Diaz and Bullcoming dissenter...
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Friday, June 01, 2012

BIO and reply brief in Rose v. Michigan

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I've been tied up, in large part with grading, but now I'm going to try to catch up on some postings I've been meaning to make o...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Petition for certiorari on procedure for child testimony

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I'm sorry for the delay, but I am posting now a petition for certiorari that I filed on March 8, in Rose v. Michigan , raising issues co...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

The latest from the European Court of Human Rights

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Last month, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights decided Al-Khawaja and Tahery v United Kingdom . This is an obviously i...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

A (mostly) bad decision from the Fourth Circuit

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Several readers have pointed me to a decision made on Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, U.S. v. Summers , 2011 W...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

The Cellmark report, and what it shows

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Here is the Cellmark report, taken from the public files of the United States Supreme Court in Williams v. Illinois . A few points about i...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

On posting the Cellmark report

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I will soon post the Cellmark report, which a friend has gotten for me from the publicly available files of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before d...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Fifth Circuit allows testimony under pseudonyms

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Once again I'm writing on the question of where the Confrontation Clause should be treated categorically and where as a balance. In Unit...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

Hardy v. Cross -- Supreme Court decision on required efforts to find an unavailable witness

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The Supreme Court issued a summary decision today in a Confrontation Clause case, Hardy v. Cross . Cross was tried on charges of kidnapping...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

The niqab and the structure of the confrontation right

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A few years ago, I posted a couple of messages on the issue of whether Muslim women should be allowed to testify while wearing a niqab, cove...
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Friday, December 09, 2011

The Cellmark report

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Because the Cellmark report was never formally introduced at the Williams trial, it was never made part of the record. But it is, of cours...
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Thursday, December 08, 2011

Cellmark's record

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I have no doubt that Cellmark runs very proficient labs. But blog reader Patsy Myers points out that if you do a search for "Cellmark ...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The Williams argument

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On Tuesday, I attended argument of Williams v. Illinois in the Supreme Court. Here are some reactions. You can find the transcript by cli...
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Monday, December 05, 2011

Thoughts on the brief of the New York DA and OCME in Williams

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I am going to try over the next several days to post (rather belatedly) a series of entries analyzing some of the arguments made by the stat...
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Sunday, December 04, 2011

Anticipating the Williams argument

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Williams v. Illinois will be argued on Tuesday. Here is a link to a piece on it by Erwin Chemerinsky, and here is a link to an Op Ed pie...
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