Wednesday, July 01, 2009
CAAF opinion alert
CAAF has issued its opinion in United States v. Paige, __ M.J. ___, No. 08-0805/MC (C.A.A.F. July 1, 2009).
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"The defense turned the trial into a referendum on the credibility of the Government's witnesses . . ." (Stucky, J., dissenting).
If the government is going to send me to jail I certainly want to question their credibility, whether it's characterized as a referendum or otherwise.
Not long before some overzealous TC cites this language in arguing to a military judge that we shouldn't have a "referendum on credibility." Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Two problems, Anon 1805:
1. (Most) trial counsel, and particularly the overzealous ones, don;t read appellate decisions.
2. Nobody cares at a court-martial what one judge said in a cioncurring/dissenting opinion.
Are you sure about that? Have personally seen TC's extol the virtues of Crawford, J., dissenting.
Uncontastjudidicated evidence. Good to see trial counsel can spell at a junior high school level.
Hey man-
"Uncontastjudidicated!"
I like it. But I am not sure I can use it in a sentence.
I like incontastjudicated too. I also like making fun of trial counsel. But I have no idea where this word, and thus the joke about trial counsel, came from.
Paige at 11-12. Not quite as bad as commentators made it out to be, but hey.
paige at 11-12 was a little overplayed.
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