LEGAL
It discusses admissibility rules, including relevance, hearsay, privileged communications, authentication and identification, best evidence issues, and burdens of proof. The authors include major Supreme Court criminal evidence decisions. The text also:
• Provides step-by-step guidance through evidentiary issues encountered in criminal cases
• Offers guidance for conducting direct-examination, cross-examination, and re-examination of witnesses as well as procedures for objecting
• Identifies circumstances in which infancy, mental illness, intoxication, or witness's psychological state may render witness incompetent to testify
• Examines witness impeachment for bias or motive, based on prior inconsistent statements or prior convictions; rehabilitating impeached witnesses
• Explains hearsay rule and exceptions, interplay of Confrontation Clause when prior statements may be admitted as substantive evidence
• Includes steps for when witnesses fail to appear or refuse to testify; circumstances in which courts may exclude witnesses
• Reviews attorney-client privilege, attorney work product doctrine, marital communications privilege, doctor-patient privilege, and informant's privilege
• Analyzes admissibility of real and demonstrative evidence, types of expert testimony used, burden of proof, and reasonable doubt
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