Editor's Corner, 0920 ALBJ, Vol. 81 No. 5 Pg. 334 (September, 2020)
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WELCOME TO THE CRIMINAL LAW EDITION OF THE ALABAMA LAWYER.
First, a little housekeeping. You may have noticed-tell me you d¡d-that my "Editor's Corner" was absent from the last edition. I had a little unexpected surgery just when I was to get the column to Margaret Murphy, the bar's director of publications, and, since I could not get it in on time, I asked her to push the edition out without me. She obliged me, and her smile was a little too big. Margaret!
And what an edition it was. Our topic was military law, and if any edition ever gave us a national footprint, it was that one. It began with an introduction by Lt. Gen. Charles N. Pede, the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army. General Pede was so taken with the issue that he sent out a national link to it in the JAG Connector, and Col. Charles A. Lang ley, the Alabama National Guard Staff Judge Advocate (who is the exceptional Alabama lawyer who gets all of the credit for putting that issue together) has gotten accolades and contacts from all across the country. If Chuck Langley is what the United States military is made up of, we are well-served.
I think that was an issue we can all be proud of.
And now we turn our attention to criminal law.
Dean Charles Gamble, Professor Bob Goodwin, and Terry McCarthy are the formidable editorial team for McElro/s Alabama Rules of Evidence, probably the m ost regularly cited and routinely followed legal treatise in the state. They joined forces to give us an overview to the 2020 Amendments to the Alabama Rules of Evidence (page 350). How can you not read that? By the way, a new edition of McEI-roy's Alabama Rules of Evidence will be out shortly. Look for it.
Bill Smith received an LLM. from the prestigious program at the West Virginia University Law School in 2018 with an LL.M. in Forensic Justice. He gives us the benefit of his studies in "Assessing Reliability of Non-DNA Forensic Feature-Comparison Evidence in Alabama." It is easy to see why Bill is one of the most effective criminal defense lawyers in Alabama, and now he is one of the most knowledgeable about forensic science. Take a minute and read this one (page 357).
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