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Minns Law Publications
Publications from Michael Minns and the Minns Law Trial Law firm are available for download here. Learn about how Minns Law can help you with your lax litigation cases.
A Brief History of Willfulness as it Applies to the Body of American Criminal Tax Law
An article describing the history of the willfulness requirement in criminal tax law, with a goal of demonstrating that willfulness is an important legal standard.
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A Brief History of Willfulness as It Applies to the Body of American Criminal Tax Law
Cross-Examination of the Government’s Witness in a Criminal Tax Defense Case
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury and to be confronted with the witnesses against him. That impartial jury decides the ultimate question of guilt or innocence based, often in large part, on confrontation by cross-examination of witnesses hostile to the defendant —the ultimate tool to test the witnesses’ truth-telling. The Confrontation Clause requires the witness who is adverse to the defendant “to submit to cross-examination, the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. The central concern of the Confrontation Clause is to ensure the reliability of the evidence against a criminal defendant by subjecting it to rigorous testing in the context of an adversary proceeding before the trier of fact.
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Tax lawyer- Cross examination of the governments witnesses in a crimial tax defense case