Posted on July 16, 2009. Tags: Blood Tests, Breath Test, Breath Tests, Calibrations, Case In Fact, Chain Of Custody, Confrontation Clause, Cuccinelli, Defendant, Del Shannon, Delegate, Democratic Candidate, Dissent, Dwi Cases, Equipment Maintenance, Footnote, Ibid, Lott, Nice Job, Prosecution, Sandy Sanders, Special Session, Test Bill
I now understand that the Democratic candidate for Attorney General seeks to accuse Sen. Cuccinelli of not supporting his breath test bill and thus heading off this legal system crisis caused by the Melendez-Diaz decision. The Jaded JD does a nice job of answering many objections at his blog entry on this matter. But I […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on July 11, 2009. Tags: 5th Amendment Rights, 6th Amendment, Blog, Confrontation Clause, Couns, Couple Of Days, Criminal Prosecutions, Democrat, Drunk Drivers, Dui Case, Dui Cases, Failure, Fiscal Restraint, Foresight, Free Transportation, General Assembly, Governor Kaine, Grants, Ineffective Counsel, Ken Cuccinelli, Lab Technician, Lab Technicians, Lawyer, Lead, Legalize Drugs, Massachusetts, Obama, Prosecutors, Republican Attorney, Retrial, Rights Of The Accused, Sandy Sanders, Sanity, Scotus, Special Session, Steve Shannon, Supreme Court Ruling, Virginia Law, Virginians
The Supreme Court made a ruling last month that has prosecutors everywhere trying to figure out what to do. In the case of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, SCOTUS ruled that that the accused has the right to face their accuser. In this case, the Lab Technicians. Elwood “Sandy” Sanders wrote a guest blog which was published […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on June 28, 2009. Tags: Acceptable Balance, Circuit Courts, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Confrontation Clause, Cuccinelli, Dna Testing, Evidence Law, Forensic Evidence, Forensic Scientist, Forensic Scientists, Governor Kaine, Lab Analyst, Laboratory Reports, Law States, Pg 21, Procedural Rules, Supreme Court Of The United States, Supreme Court Ruling, Trial Delay, Virginia Law
The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday effectively struck down the Commonwealth of Virginia’s criminal lab report statute as violative of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. The case not from Virginia, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, held that lab reports cannot be admitted against a defendant but rather the actual lab examiner has […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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