Evidence Practice Under the Rules Unknown - 1999
by Kirkpatrick, Laird C.
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In this valuable tool for litigators, the authors provide a comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide to the Federal Rules of Evidence and their state counterparts. They explore a wide range of applications that are difficult or important in practice and suggest new approaches to surmount challenges. They provide practical, expert guidance on such crucial issues as: New standards governing the admissibility of scientific evidence
-- Testimony on social frameworks and syndromes-- The Confrontation Clause and the admissibility of hearsay
-- Admissibility of prior offenses-- The Rape Shield provision
-- Refreshing witnesses' memories-- Repair and rehabilitation of impeached witnesses
-- Non-conviction misconduct-- How a privilege must be claimed and how it can be waived
-- The scope of professional, familial, and governmental evidentiary privileges.
For each case cited you'll find a two-sentence summary, so you can quickly and effortlessly find those cases most relevant to the issues you're researching.
Details
- Title Evidence Practice Under the Rules
- Author Kirkpatrick, Laird C.
- Binding unknown
- Edition Second
- Publisher Aspen Law & Business Publishers
- Date June 1999
- ISBN 9780735504479
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