A
Abandoned Pleadings
Absence of Similar Accidents
Absent or Missing Evidence
Absent Witness
Accident Reconstruction
Accident Reports
Acknowledged Documents
Actual Cash Value
Administrative Proceedings
Admissibility
Admission of a Party Opponent
Admission, Silence as an
Admissions, Adoptive
Admissions of Agents
Adverse Inference
Adverse or Pecuniary Interest
Adverse Parties
Adverse Possession
Affidavits
Agency Rules and Regulations
Alcohol Tests
Alias
Almanac
Amendment of Pleadings
Ancient Documents
Answers to Interrogatories
Appellate Review
Appraisals
Arguments of Counsel
Arrest
Attorneys
Attorney & Client Privilege
Attorney Fees
Audiotapes
Authentication
Autopsy Reports
Aviation Accident Investigation

B
Bad Acts
Battered Spouse
Best Evidence Rule
Bias and Prejudice
Birth Certificate
Blackboard
Blind Persons
Blood Alcohol Content
Blue Book
Boats
Bodily Condition
Boundaries, Land
Breath Tests
Burden of Proof
Business Customs and Usage
Business Record Statute

C
Capias
Causation
Certificates and Certification
Certified Copies
Chain of Custody
Chance, Loss of
Character Evidence
Character Evidence, Impeachment
Charts
Chiropractors
Church Records
Circumstantial Evidence
Civil Commitment
Clear and Convincing Evidence
Coconspirators' Exception
Collateral Estoppel
Collateral Issues
Collateral Source Rule
Company Rules
Compensation of Expert Witnesses
Competency of Child Witness
Competency of Witnesses
Complaints of Pain
Computer Records
Computer Simulation
Conditional Admissibility
Conditions
Connecting It Up
Continuing Objections
Contradictory Statements
Control and Possession
Conviction of Crime
Copies
Corporate Records
Costs of Litigation
Course of Dealing
Court-Appointed Experts
Court Reporters
Courtroom Writings, Drawings and Sketches
Court's Discretion
Credibility
Credibility, Evidence in Support of
Credibility of One's Own Witness
Crimes, Impeachment by
Crimes, Proof of in Civil Actions
Criminal Records
Cross-Examination
Cross-Examination of Experts
Cumulative Evidence
Custom and Habit

D
Damages
Daubert Rule
Day-in-the-life Film
Dead Man's Statute
Deaf Witness
Death Certificate
Deceased Physician
Decedent's Income
Declaration Against Interest
Declaration Against Penal Interest
Declaration of Deceased Persons
Deeds and Conveyances
Definitions
Delay, Exclusion of Relevant Evidence
Demonstrations
Demonstrative Evidence
Depositions
Destruction of Evidence
Diaries
Dictionary
Direct Evidence
Direct Examination
Direction
Directories
Disability
Disbelief
Discovery, Use of
Discretionary Rulings
Distance
DNA
Doctor-Patient Privilege
Documentary Presumption
Documents, Production of in Court
Double and Treble Damages
Double Hearsay
Dram Shop Act
Drug Abuse
Duplicate Original
Duplicates
Dying Declarations

E
Earning Capacity, Loss of
Economist
Electronic Signatures and Records
Employee/Employer
Encyclopedia
Enlargements
Equitable Estoppel
Erroneous Rulings, Correction of
Estimates
Evading Responsibility
Evidence After Admission of Liability
Evidence Taken to Jury Room
Evidentiary Admissions
Examination of Witness by the Court
Excited Utterance
Exclusion of Relevant Evidence
Exclusion of Witness
Exemplary Damages
Exhibits
Exhibits for Identification Only
Exhumation
Experiments
Expert Opinion
Expert Witness, CrossExamination
Expert Witness, Eyewitness Identification
Expert Witness, Failure to Disclose
Expert Witness, Need for
Expert Witness, Not Needed
Expert Witness, Qualifications of
Expert Witness, Records and Reports
Expert Witness, Reliance on Hearsay
Eyewitness, Competency
Eyewitness Identification

F
Failure to Call Witness
Fair Market Value
Family Car Doctrine
Family History (Pedigree)
Federal Official Records Statute
Fifth Amendment Privilege
Fingerprints
Flight
Foreign Laws
Former Testimony
Foundation
Frye Test
Funeral Expenses
Future Medical Bills and Expenses

G
Genealogy
General and Special Acts
Genetic Tests
Graphs
Guilty Plea

H
Habeas Corpus
Handwriting
Hearsay
Hearsay Exceptions
Hearsay Within Hearsay
Historical Facts or Data
Hospital Records
Hostile Witness
Husband and Wife
Hypnosis
Hypothetical Question

I
Illustrations
Impeachment
Impeachment by Inconsistent Conduct
Impeachment-Conviction of Crime
Impeachment of One's Own Witness
Impeachment, Prior Inconsistent Statements
Income Tax Returns
Incompetent Witness
Incrimination, Privilege Against
Independent Medical Examination
Inferences
Insane Persons as Witnesses
Insurance
Interest in the Litigation
Interlocutory Examination of Witness
Interpreter
Interrogation of a Witness by the Court
Interrogatory Answers
Intoxication

J
Judges as Witnesses
Judge's Comments on Evidence
Judge's Questions of Witness
Judgments in Criminal Cases
Judicial Admissions
Judicial Notice
Jurors as Witnesses
Jurors' Notes
Jurors' Questions
Jury View
Juvenile Court Records

L
Law of the Case
Lay Opinion
Leading Questions
Legislative History and Intent
Letters
Lie Detector Tests
Life Expectancy Tables
Limited Admissibility
Liquor Analysis
Loss of Evidence

M
Maps
Marital Communications
Marital & Family Therapist Privilege
Market Reports
Materiality of Evidence
Mediation
Medical Bills
Medical Charts
Medical Examination, Independent
Medical History
Medical Illustrations
Medical Malpractice Screening Panel
Medical Peer Review and Medical Review Committee
Medical Reports
Medical Texts
Medical Treatment Exception
Memory, Refreshing of
Mental Capacity
Mental Suffering
Mentally Deficient and Ill Persons
Misconduct
Mistrial
Mitigation of Damages
Models
Moral Turpitude
Mortality Tables
Motion Pictures
Motions in Limine
Motor Vehicle Reports
Movies
Municipal Ordinances and Regulations

N
Newly Discovered Evidence
Newspapers
Nolo Contendere Plea
Nonassertive Conduct

O
Oaths and Affirmations
Objections
Offer of Compromise
Offer of Proof
Opening the Door
Oral Concessions
Order of Witnesses
Original Documents
OSHA Regulations
Overheard Conversations
Owner's Opinion of Property Value

P
Pain and Suffering
Parol Evidence Rule
Partners, Vicarious Admissions
Past Recollection Recorded
Payment of Medical and Similar Expenses
Perjury
Permanent Injury
Personal Notes and Records
Photocopies
Photographs
Physical Evidence
Physician & Patient Privilege
Plea of Guilty
Pleadings, Admissions
Pleadings, Examination from
Pleadings, Superseded
Police Officer, Expert
Police Reports
Possession and Control
Post-Accident Changes
Prejudicial Effect
Present Recollection Refreshed
Presumption of Due Care
Presumptions
Pretrial Memoranda
Priest-Penitent Privilege
Prior Consistent Statements
Prior Convictions, Impeachment
Prior Inconsistent Statements
Prior Misconduct
Prior Pending Action Doctrine
Privileges
Property Damage
Property Owner's Opinion of Value
Prostitute
Proximate Cause
Psychiatrist-Patient Privilege
Psychologist-Patient Privilege
Public Records and Reports
Punitive Damages

Q
Questions by Jurors

R
Real Evidence
Rebuttal Evidence
Rebuttable Presumptions
Recorded Conversations
Recordings
Redirect Examination
Refreshing Memory and Recollection
Rehabilitating a Witness
Release of Tortfeasor
Relevancy
Remainder of Statements
Remarriage of Surviving Spouse
Repairs
Repairs, Cost of
Reputation
Requests for Admissions
Requests for Production
Res Gestae
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Res Judicata
Residual Hearsay Exception

S
Safety Standards
Scientific Evidence
Seals
Seat Belts
Sequestration of Witnesses
Settlement Agreement
Settlement Negotiations
Shop Book Rule
Silence as an Admission
Similar Accidents
Similar Accidents, Lack of
Sketches and Plans
Slide Presentations
Social Worker-Patient Privilege
Speculative Evidence
Speed
Spoliation
Spontaneous Utterance
Spousal Privileges
State of Mind Exception
State of the Art Evidence
Statements of Counsel
Statements That Are Not Hearsay
Statements Under Belief of Impending Death
Statutory Presumptions
Subpoena
Subsequent Inconsistent Statement
Subsequent Remedial Measures and Repairs
Summaries of Voluminous Records
Superseded Pleadings
Surveillance Films

T
Telephone Communications
Testimony from Another Hearing
Threats Against Witnesses
Toxicology Reports
Treatises
Trial Management Order
Trial Stipulations

U
Ultimate Question
Unavailability of Witness
Uniform Acknowledgment Act
Uninsured/underinsured Motorist Insurance
Usage of Trade

V
Value
Verbal Acts
Videotaped Depositions
Videotapes
Visual Aids
Voir Dire Examination
Voucher Rule

W
Weather Reports
Witness, Arguing with
Witness, Bias
Witness, Character
Witness, Competency of
Witness, Credibility
Witness, Deaf
Witness, Examination by the Court
Witness, Expert
Witness, Impeachment
Witness, Late Disclosure
Witness, Physically Disabled
Witness, Questions Calling for Legal Conclusions
Witness, Re-Direct Examination
Witness, Unavailable
Witness, Vague Questions
Work Product Doctrine
Worry About Possible Future Conditions
Writings, Admission of Execution
Written Statements of Parties

Connecticut Trial Notebook Authors

Dale P. Faulkner and Shelley L. Graves are the principals of Faulkner & Graves, P.C., in New London. Their practice is devoted to personal injury and wrongful death litigation.

Attorney Faulkner received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Providence College and his L.L.B. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Attorney Faulkner taught Trial Practice for twenty-two years at the University of Connecticut School of Law and is a past editor of CTLA FORUM, published by the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Attorney Graves received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Connecticut in 1990. In 1994, she graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law and was admitted to practice. She is an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association.