Big Brother can help your case 
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: December 28, 2011
Tags: evidence, video evidence
With electronic surveillance at an all-time high and smartphones equipped with video cameras, video evidence is an increasingly common – and important – element of a case.
Asset transfer admissible to show consciousness of guilt
Published: November 18, 2011
Tags: evidence, manslaughter
Evidence that a vehicular manslaughter defendant transferred assets for less than fair value shortly after an accident could be admitted to show consciousness of guilt, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled in reinstating a conviction.
VHS copy of digital surveillance recording admissible
Published: October 13, 2011
Tags: "silent witness" rule, evidence
A videotaped copy of a digital surveillance camera recording was admissible in a theft case, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled in reinstating a conviction.
Text messages inadmissible in drug trial
Published: September 30, 2011
Tags: cell phone, evidence, hearsay, text messages
Prosecutors in a drug trial should not have been permitted to introduce text messages recovered from the defendant’s cell phone, a Pennsylvania appellate court has ruled in reversing a conviction.
S.C. jury awards $4.7 million in toxic chemical case
By:
Phillip Bantz
Published: August 15, 2011
Tags: chemical exposure, disability, evidence, nerve damage, South Carolina
A pair of South Carolina attorneys recently won millions in a personal injury case after rejecting a low ball settlement offer and overcoming a lack of medical evidence to prove the cause of their client’s life-altering disability.
Justices: Substitute analysts cannot introduce lab tests
Published: June 23, 2011
Tags: Confrontation Clause, evidence, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, Supreme Court
The Confrontation Clause does not permit laboratory test reports to be introduced through the in-court testimony of an analyst who did not personally perform or observe the performance of the test, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
CONFRONTATION CLAUSE
Published: June 23, 2011
Tags: Confrontation Clause, evidence, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, Supreme Court
The Confrontation Clause does not permit laboratory test reports to be introduced through the in-court testimony of an analyst who did not personally perform or observe the performance of the test.
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U.S. Supreme Court. Bullcoming v. New Mexico, No.
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MySpace evidence inadmissible
Published: May 3, 2011
Tags: evidence, MySpace, social networking
Prosecutors failed to sufficiently authenticate pages posted on a woman’s MySpace account that were introduced to show that she had threatened a witness in a murder case, Maryland’s highest court has ruled in reversing a conviction.
High Court confronts case of substitute lab analyst
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: March 2, 2011
Tags: Confrontation Clause, evidence, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – Nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lab reports used as evidence in criminal trials are testimonial evidence, and therefore the Confrontation Clause requires that the technicians who prepared them be made available to testify, the justices are still wrangling with the parameters of that rule.
App roundup: Trial apps, court rules and mileage tracking
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: February 3, 2011
Tags: Apple, child support, evidence, iPad, iPad apps, iPleading, Mac, mileage tracking, tablet computers, Tap2Track Mileage, technology, TrialPad
Now that lawyers are increasingly using tablet computers in and out of the courtroom, the latest Lawyers USA technology roundup takes a look at some new applications that can benefit practitioners:
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