Tag Archive ‘Venue’

 

Gregory L. Poe Sep 25th, 2009Venue, Prejudice, and Science in Criminal Trials

Any time a federal court of appeals states that a district court is not required to consider evidence, without any qualifying statement concerning the reliability of that evidence, one tends to take notice. Earlier this week, the Eighth Circuit held (in a case involving grisly and heartbreaking facts) that a district court is not required even [...]