California Evidence Code With Objections

California Evidence Code with Objections, at just 4" x 6", is packed with all the crucial details. When you are in court you need to know whether a hearsay exception is governed by common law alone or if a special statute applies. You need to know whether California distinguishes between civil and criminal cases for that exception you’re looking at, and you need to know now. With this text, you will have the law at hand whenever you want to know the requirements that apply to your case.

Are there separate unavailability requirements that apply?

Does the exception about the absence of an entry in a public document apply to a private document as well?

Is there room for interpretation on a certain point of evidence or is the law in California clear?

How is California law different from the federal rule when it comes to dying declarations?

California Evidence Code with Objections has the answers to these questions and many others, with alphabetical thumb tabs on the side and a statute index in the back. Traditional, straightforward statements of objections and responses are provided for everything from Ambiguity and Experts to Presumptions, Privileges, and Relevance. Each chapter provides the applicable California case law and statutes, an explanation giving the reason for the law, and the current understanding of it.

Professor Snyder has worked extensively with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and serves on the board of the San Diego Volunteer Lawyers Program. He is also a judge pro tempore in the Small Claims Division of the San Diego Municipal Court. He teaches in the areas of interviewing and counseling, negotiation, and trial skills. He is the co-author (with Professor Morris) of Mental Disorder in the Criminal Process (Greenwood Press).

He specializes in discrimination law, civil trial law, and civil rights history. Principal spokesperson for the Campaign to Defeat Proposition 209. Clerked for Chief Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court. Worked as a civil rights prosecutor for the State of California. Serves on the board of directors and the litigation committees of the ACLU of Northern California, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, Equal Rights Advocates, and the American Jewish Congress, Pacific Northwest Region. Author of numerous law review articles in the field of discrimination law.