Texas Evidentiary Foundations

David A. Schlueter is the Hardy Chair Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. Professor Schlueter has taught evidence, constitutional law, criminal procedure, and military law. He has authored, co-authored, or edited thirteen books and numerous articles on evidence and criminal procedure including five books on military procedure and evidence. His writings have been cited over 1500 times by both state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, and legal commentators. He served on active duty for nine years as an Army JAG Corps officer as a trial and appellate attorney and Associate Professor at the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. He served for another eighteen years as an officer in the Reserves. From 1981 to 1983 he served as legal counsel for the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1983, he started his
teaching career at St. Mary’s. He is a life fellow in the American Bar Foundation, a life fellow in the Texas Bar Foundation and is a life fellow in the American Law Institute. From 1988 until 2005, he served as the Reporter for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Advisory Committee. He currently serves as a consultant to the United States Court of Military Commissions Review.

Edward J. Imwinkelried is the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Professor of Law Emeritus at UC Davis School of Law. A nationally recognized expert on subjects such as DNA typing, forensic psychiatry, and laser techniques for fingerprint detection, Professor Imwinkelried is the author of more than 200 books and other publications. He is frequently called upon for advice on privileges and the admissibility of evidence of other crimes, and his treatise Scientific Evidence is considered authoritative. Professor Imwinkelried served as an army lawyer in the XXIV Corps and 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam in 1971–1972. He went on to become a lecturer on evidence, criminal procedure, crimes and trial advocacy in the Criminal Law Division of the Judge Advocate General’s School in Virginia, then a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and Washington University before coming to UC Davis in 1985. He has also taught as a Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University, the University of Illinois, University of Houston, and University College Dublin.