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California Evidence Code with Objections

California Evidence Code with Objections

This complete pocket-size guide to California evidence travels easily to the courtroom or classroom, with thumb tabs to quickly reference codes, objections and responses to the California rules of evidence through January 2009.


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Publisher :NITA
Format: Third Edition, Perfect Bound , BOOK

ISBN: 9781601560063

2009
 
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    At 4-by-6 inches, this complete guide to California evidence travels easily to the courtroom or classroom. This handy pocket-size book lets you:

    • Quickly reference objections and responses during trial through the use of thumb tabs
    • Instantly consult the relevant California rule
    • Gain insight from crucial practice tips and legal interpretations
    • Access the rules when you need them most--this pocket-size guide is always at hand

    The new edition reflects the changes made to the evidence code by the California legislature through January 2009.

    CONTENTS

    Preface

    Ambiguous/Unintelligible Questions

    Argumentative Questions

    Asked and Answered

    Assuming Facts Not in Evidence

    Authentication of Writings

    Best Evidence Rule

    Best Evidence Rule Exception: Proof of Writings by Secondary Evidence

    Burden of Proof

    Character Evidence
    Generally
    Prior Bad Acts
    Sexual Offenses
    Victim or Accused in Criminal Trials

    Competence to Testify

    Compound Questions

    Cross-Examination
    Generally
    Scope

    Exhibits
    Demonstrative
    Illustrative
    Tangible Objects
    Writings

    Expert Opinions
    Generally
    Foundation

    Habit and Custom

    Hearsay
    Generally
    Credibility of a Hearsay Declarant
    Multiple Hearsay

    Hearsay Exception
    Absence of Business Record
    Absence of Official Record
    Business Records
    Church Records
    Commercial Lists
    Confessions and Admissions
    Contemporaneous Statements
    Dying Declaration
    Entries in Family Records
    Excited Utterances
    Finding of Death, Capture, etc. by Federal Official
    Judgment of Felony Conviction
    Learned Treatises
    Marriage, Baptismal, and Similar Certificates
    Official Records
    Past Recollection Recorded
    Preliminary Hearing
    Previously Existing Mental or Physical State
    Prior Identification
    Prior Statements of Witnesses
    Prior Testimony
    Reputation as to Character
    Reputation Concerning Community History and Property Interests
    Reputation Concerning Family History
    Statements against Interest
    Statements Relating to Wills
    Then Existing Mental or Physical State
    Vital Statistics
    Writings Affecting Property

    Impeachment
    Generally
    Bias, Prejudice, Interest, or Improper Motive
    Character Evidence
    Memory or Perception
    Prior Criminal Convictions
    Prior Inconsistent Statements

    Judicial Notice

    Lay Opinions

    Leading Questions

    Misquoting Testimony or Misstating the Evidence

    Narratives

    Nonresponsive Answers

    Objections

    Offers of Proof

    Presumptions
    Generally
    Presumptions Affecting Writings

    Privileges

    Refreshing Present Recollection

    Relevance
    Generally
    Conditional Admissibility
    Limited Admissibility
    Rule of Completeness

    Relevance Exception
    Liability Insurance
    Offers of Compromise or Settlement Pleas, Offers of Pleas, and Related Statements
    Prejudice, Confusion, Time
    Subsequent Remedial Conduct

    Speculation/Personal Knowledge

    Appendix: California Evidence Code

    October 13, 2010

     

    Allen C. Snyder


    Allen Snyder is a law professor at the University of San Diego School of Law where he teaches primarily in the live client clinics and related skills classes, such as interviewing and counseling, negotiations, trial skills and mediation. He has received awards and recognition for his law school teaching throughout the years. Professor Snyder has taught with NITA and directed NITA programs for over fifteen years. In addition he has taught trial and other legal skills to lawyers, judges and law students in numerous international settings including the UK, Italy, Australia, China (PRC), China (HK), Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain. Snyder received his bachelor's degree from Washington and Jefferson College and a law degree from Northwestern University. He worked in private practice, doing commercial litigation, then in poverty law with the San Diego Legal Aid Society before entering teaching.

    Anthony J. Bocchino


    Professor Anthony Bocchino is an honors graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law after which he was a Bradway Fellow at the Duke University School of Law. He served as a full time faculty member at both the University of Connecticut School of Law and the Duke University Law School before joining the Temple University Beasley School of Law faculty in 1979. At the Beasley School of Law for the period 1979 -1989 he was Director of Temple's Trial Advocacy and Clinical Programs. He has designed the program, written materials and taught in the law school's Integrated Trial Advocacy Program which has been twice awarded the Gumpert Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy from the American College of Trial Lawyers, in addition to receiving the Gambrell Award for Teaching Professionalism from the American Bar Association. In 1997 he was named by Temple University as the Jack E. Feinberg Professor of Litigation.

    Professor Bocchino has been honored with teaching awards from Duke University School of Law where he received the Mordecai Society Award and the Beasley School of Law where he was the first recipient of the George P. Williams II Memorial Award. In addition, he has received the Oliphant Award from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the Richard S. Jacobson Award from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America for excellence in teaching the art and science of trial advocacy.

    In addition to his law school duties Professor Bocchino has served as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) since 1974, served as NITA's Director for five years and served as the organization's Editor in Chief. Bocchino has written materials and designed programs for trial, deposition, fact investigation, motion practice and appellate advocacy programs for more than 30 law firms and numerous public agencies. He has also conducted needs analyses and designed litigation skill curricula for numerous law firms. His CLE materials and program designs are among the most frequently utilized by those organizations. In addition, he has and will customize materials to the specific needs of individual clients.

    Professor Bocchino is the author of over 60 books and articles, predominantly in the fields of Evidence, Trial Advocacy, Civil Litigation and Professional Responsibility. His trial advocacy and/or deposition practice materials are used in a majority of the law schools in America, as well as in CLE litigation skills training in the public and private sectors.

    Professor Bocchino has been elected as a member of the American Law Institute, and named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Litigation Counsel of America and the International Society of Barristers.

    David A. Sonenshein


    David A. Sonenshein is the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at Temple University. He has also been a faculty member at George Washington University National Law Center, DePaul University College of Law, and Boston University School of Law, teaching civil procedure, criminal procedure, evidence, professional responsibility, trial advocacy, and complex civil litigation. He has received the Outstanding Professor Award at both DePaul and Temple Law Schools a total of six times. He is a nationally recognized lecturer on the law of evidence in the courtroom. As a consultant to the Federal Judicial Center, he leads seminars for all new Federal District Court Judges on the law of evidence, as well as offering seminars for experienced U.S. District Court Judges. He has served as an instructor on evidence and trial advocacy for NITA, AILTO (of which he is the Director), ALI-ABA, and the National Practice Institute. Professor Sonenshein earned the Francis E. Rawle Award from the American Law Institute and American Bar Association for his outstanding contributions to the field of post-admission legal education. He received his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.

     

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