New grant

Here is the precise, albeit largely uninformative, issue on which CAAF granted in a daily journal entry posted today:

WHETHER THE MILITARY JUDGE COMMITTED PREJUDICIAL ERROR BY DENYING THE DEFENSE'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS AND HOLDING THAT CERTAIN STATEMENTS MADE BY THE APPELLANT TO HIS WIFE DID NOT FALL WITHIN THE PRIVILEGE FOR CONFIDENTIAL MARITAL COMMUNICATIONS.

United States v. Custis, __ M.J. ___, No. 07-0188/AF (C.A.A.F. May 29, 2007) (order). I am ecstatic to report that the opinion below was authored by Judge Mathews the Great. So Mathews Month comes to a somewhat appropriate close after all.