Two New Filings

Today, the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic is filing this cert. petition in Pinks v. North Dakota. At issue in the case is whether the Confrontation Clause allows a prosecutor to introduce a forensic examiner’s crime lab report against the defendant in lieu of the examiner’s live testimony as long as the defendant has the ability to subpoena the examiner as part of his defense. Our co-instructor in the Stanford clinic, Jeff Fisher, took the lead on the petition and is counsel of record; his team at Stanford included students Jameson Jones, David Moscowitz, and Fred Smith. Our co-counsel in the case are Michael R. Hoffman and Kent M. Morrow, both of Bismarck, North Dakota.

In an unrelated filing that was made yesterday, Tom is counsel of record on this reply brief in the matter of Davis et al. v. United States (06-160); the petition can be found here and brief in opposition here. Others who worked on the reply brief include Chris Egleson and Steven Wu of Akin Gump; Jameson Jones of the Stanford Clinic; Richard Gaines in Knoxville, Tennessee; and Peter Strianse and R. Price Nimmo in Nashville.