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This article aims to contribute to the discourse on the development of a system of international criminal justice. The paper discusses the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), in particular, certain of its rules of evidence and their role in ensuring just, fair and expeditious trials for breaches of international humanitarian and international human rights law during the Sierra Leone conflict which lasted between 1991 and 2002. In the conclusion, the author considers whether the manner in which the SCSL interpreted and applied specific rules of evidence helped it to meet and contribute to the objectives of a system of international criminal justice. These objectives include holding violators of international norms accountable; guaranteeing procedural proprietary; giving legitimacy to ...
HUNTINGTON - Digital devices are making life easier for most people - including criminals. But the Marshall University Forensic Science Center is trying to stay a step ahead of them.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Tome v. United States ruled that prior consistent statements of a witness are admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B), only if made before an alleged 'motive to fabricate' occurred. The decision is a narrow one, but it indicates a troubling desire to gain certainty by establishing bright-line exclusionary rules, instead of relying on general rules applied to the specific facts of each case. Furthermore, neither the majority nor the dissent used the best arguments available to them, although the dissent's argument was basically correct. Admissibility should be based on the evidence's rehabilitative significance.
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