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
- Nonconviction 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.