Meraz v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that local rules of practice may not override the rules established by the President in the Mil- itary Rules of Evidence
• holding that local rules of practice may not override the rules established by the President in the Mil- itary Rules of Evidence
• holding that “[h]owever laudable [the] objectives [of an Army judiciary’s local rule] may be, they do not permit overriding Rules prescribed by the President in the Manual for Courts-Martial”
• holding that “[h]owever laudable [the] objectives [of an Army judici- ary’s local rule] may be, they do not permit overriding Rules prescribed by the President in the Manual for Courts-Mar- tial”
• precluding use of an unwarned statement to rebut evidence presented on behalf of an accused who has not opened the door through his or her in-court testimony
• precluding use of an unwarned statement to rebut evidence presented on behalf of an accused who has not opened the door through his or her in-court testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).