Court Opinion

ID: 9836808
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-02 03:15:07.767296+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:18.946589
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CRAWFORD, Chief Judge
(concurring in the result):
Mil.R.Evid. 707, Manual for Courts-Martial, United States (1998 ed.), like other rules of evidence, may be waived. It is similar to Fed.R.Evid. 410. United States v. Mezzanatto, 513 U.S. 196, 115 S.Ct. 797, 130 L.Ed.2d 697 (1995). When the Ninth Circuit held that Fed.R.Evid. 410 could not be waived, the Supreme Court stated:
The Ninth Circuit’s analysis is directly contrary to the approach we have taken in the context of a broad array of constitutional and statutory provisions. Rather than deeming waiver presumptively unavailable absent some sort of express enabling clause, we instead have adhered to the opposite presumption. . . . A criminal defendant may knowingly and voluntarily waive many of the most fundamental protections afforded by the Constitution.... Likewise, absent some affirmative indication of Congress’ intent to preclude waiver, we have presumed that statutory provisions are subject to waiver by voluntary agreement of the parties.
Id. at 200-01, 115 S.Ct. 797 (citations omitted). That rationale applies here.
*284Additionally, polygraph evidence may be admissible under the invited-error, curative-admissibility, or opening-the-door doctrine.