Are Veterans Serving as Mentor Coordinators and Volunteer Mentors in Veteran Treatment Courts Equal?
(Click on the above arrow to listen to the audio.) An Interview with Leadership from the TASC In this episode, Justice Speaks continues its series about State Treatment Court Associations and interviews Mary Covington who represents the Texas Association of Specialty Courts (TASC). This episode is sponsored by Reconnect. In the Beginning Ms. Covington is
Frye v. United States[1] set the orgininal federal standard for the admission of scientific evidence in the courtroom. That standard lasted for several decades before the Supreme Court In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993) held the Frye standard was superseded by Federal Rule of Evidence 702 (FRE 702).[2] As part of it’s opinion, the court expanded
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