Military Evidentiary Foundations

Lee D Schinasi is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. He is author of numerous articles on criminal law practice and was a criminal law instructor at the Army's Judge Advocate General's School. He has also served in the Office of the Judge Advocate General, as well as at Army Government Appellate Division and in the field as a trial and defense counsel. He is currently attending the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.

David A. Schlueter is the Hardy Chair Emeritus and Professor of Law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. Professor Schlueter teaches evidence and trial advocacy and has served as both criminal trial and appellate counsel. He has authored, co-authored, or edited 12 books on procedure and evidence, including the Texas Rules of Evidence Manual and the Texas Rules of Evidence Trial Book. His writings have been cited frequently by state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, and legal commentators. Before joining the faculty at St. Mary's in 1983, he served on active duty as an Army JAGC and for two years as an in-house legal counsel for the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a fellow in the American Law Institute and a Life Fellow in the American Bar Foundation. From 1988 until 2005, he served as the Reporter for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Advisory Committee.

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.

Stephen Saltzburg is the Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, where he teaches trial advocacy, litigation, and professional responsibility. He is a former member of the Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Evidence, and former Reporter for and Member of the Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. He currently serves as an American Bar Association representative to the Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Evidence and as Chair of the Civil Justice Reform Act Committee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Professor Saltzburg served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and was an Ex-Officio Member of the United States Sentencing Commission. He also was the Director of the Tax Refund Fraud Task Force for the U.S. Treasury Department.