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Attorney’s words come back to haunt him

POSTED: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 9:33 am

BY: David Ziemer, david.ziemer@wislawjournal.com

Attorneys need to be careful what they tell their witnesses, lest it come back to haunt them in the form of impeachment evidence.

09-4056 U.S. v. Vasquez (access required)

POSTED: Monday, March 14th, 2011 at 12:23 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Evidence Relevance; harmless error Although it was error to admit jail recordings that concerned defense counsel’s opinion of the case, the error was harmless. “The admission into evidence of the MCC recordings themselves, however, is a horse of a different color. The government argues that the judge did not err because it never sought to [...]

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