78 - United States v Doroteo (AFCCA) and Sex Offender Registration as Mitigation

In today's episode we discuss the recent Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals case of United States v. Doroteo, where the court discussed three important issues for defensive litigation:  1) liberal discovery rules applicable to military justice, 2) the awesome power of R.C.M. 914, and 3) the excited utterance exception to the prohibition against hearsay.  The advocacy piece this week is just some thoughts on how to get sex offender registration under SORNA into the defense mitigation case in sentencing (rather than just in the unsworn) so as to avoid the Talkington instruction that essentially tells the members to disregard sex offender registration as a collateral consequence.  

Chapters

• 1:31 United States v Doroteo
• 28:38 Sex Offender Registration as Mitigation Evidence
• 36:30 Outro