Evidence in a nutshell / / by Paul F. Rothstein, Myrna S. Raeder, David Crump

• Autore: Rothstein Paul F. <1938->
• Pubblicazione: Saint Paul, Minnesota : , : West, , 2007; ©2007
• Edizione: Sixth edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (538 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 347.736
• Soggetto topico: Evidence (Law) - United States
• Persona (resp. second.): RaederMyrna S.; CrumpDavid
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Summary Outline -- DETAILED OUTLINE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Chapter 1. Interpreting the Rules and Other Basics: Offers, Objections, and the Judge's Function -- I. From Common Law to Codification: How the Rules Are Interpreted -- The Sources of Evidence Law, From Common Law to F.R.E. 101 -- Evidentiary Policies in a Jury Trial System: The Common Law and F.R.E 102 -- The Policies Favoring Admissibility and Discretion in the F.R.E. -- Advantages and Disadvantages of a Discretion-Based Codification -- II. Offers, Objections, and Instructions -- The Necessity for Requesting Action by the Trial Judge: F.R.E. 103 -- Curative and Cautionary Instructions to the Jury: Common Law and F.R.E. 105 -- III. Preliminary Questions of Fact and Conditional Relevancy -- Preliminary Questions of Fact and F.R.E. 104(a): The Judge's Evidentiary Findings -- "Conditional Relevancy" and F.R.E. 104(b): Preserving Jury Decisionmaking When the Relevancy of One Piece of Evidence Depends on Another -- IV. Role of Rules Beyond Exclusion of Pieces of Evidence From Juries: Non-Jury & Administrative Trials -- Appeals -- Judge & Attorney Comment -- Non-Jury Trials and Administrative Hearings -- Harmless Error and Abuse of Discretion -- Judicial Comment on Weight of Evidence -- Argument by Attorneys to the Jury -- Chapter 2. Judicial Notice, Presumptions, and Burdens: Substitutes for Evidence -- I. Judicial Notice -- "Adjudicative" Facts Under F.R.E. 201 -- "Legislative" and "Evaluative" Facts -- II. Burdens of Proof -- The Burdens of Pleading, Production, and Persuasion -- The Burden of Production -- The Burden of Persuasion -- III. Presumptions -- Mandatory and Permissive Presumptions -- Criminal Presumptions and Their Restriction by the Constitution -- Evidence Rebutting the Presumed Fact: What Effect?. ; Presumptions Under the Federal Rules: F.R.E. 301 and 302 -- Chapter 3. Relevancy, Its Counterweights, and Related Exclusionary Rules -- I. Relevancy -- The Definition of Relevant Evidence: F.R.E. 401 -- Relevant Evidence Is Admissible Unless There Is an Exclusionary Rule: F.R.E. 402 -- Statistical Probabilities: A Particular Problem of Relevancy -- II. Counterweights to Relevance: Prejudice, Confusion, Time Consumption, Etc. -- Prejudice: Extreme Over-Valuation or Decision on an Improper Basis -- Other Counterweights in Addition to Prejudice -- Individual Versus Categorical Balancing -- F.R.E. 403 Creates an Unevenly Weighted Balancing Test, Which Is Loaded in Favor of Admissibility: Unless "Substantially Outweighed," Probative Value Supports Admissibility -- Illustration of the Balancing: Offering Replications: Results of Experiments That Attempt to Recreate a Litigated Event or Portion Thereof -- Re-enactments -- Simulations -- Models -- Photos -- Graphic Representations -- Illustration of the Balancing (Perhaps Tempered by Extrinsic Policies): Flight, Bribery, Spoliation (the Destruction of or Failure to Adduce Evidence) and Other Arguable Implied Admissions -- III. Exclusionary Rules for Remedial Measures, Compromise Negotiations, Withdrawn Guilty Pleas, and Insurance -- Subsequent Remedial Measures: F.R.E. 407 -- Compromises, Settlement Negotiations, and Medical Payments: F.R.E. 408-09 -- Withdrawn Guilty Pleas and Plea Negotiations: F.R.E. 410 -- Liability Insurance: F.R.E. 411 -- Chapter 4. A Special Relevancy vs. Counterweights Problem Area: Similar Acts, Character, Propensity -- I. An Overview of the Propensity-Related Rules -- The Theory of the Rules: Propensity Is "Relevant" But Sometimes Prejudicial, Misleading, Too Time Consuming, or Just Plain Not Fair -- The Evidentiary Rules: A Road Map to F.R.E. 404-406 and Related Rules. ; II. Permissible Uses of Character as Substantive Circumstantial Evidence -- Good Character, Offered at the Criminal Defendant's Option: F.R.E. 404(a)(2)(A) (restyled) and 405(a) -- The Defendant's Option to Offer Character Evidence on a "Pertinent Trait": the "Mercy Rule" Allowing "Good Guy" Evidence -- Impeachment of Character Witnesses by "Have You Heards" -- The Prosecution's Rebuttal of the Defendant's Character Evidence: F.R.E. 404(a)(2)(A) (restyled) -- Character of the Victim in Self-Defense and Other Cases: F.R.E. 404(a)(2)(B) & (C) (restyled) -- III. Similar Incidents Offered for Non-Character Circumstantial Purposes -- Intent, Identity and Other Factors as Shown by Similar Incidents: F.R.E. 404(b): "M.O.I.P.P.K.I.A.," the "Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts" or "Uncharged Misconduct" Principle -- Plan, as Shown by Similar Incidents: F.R.E. 404(b) Continued -- Identity: F.R.E. 404(b) Continued -- Intent or Knowledge: F.R.E. 404(b) Continued -- Motive: F.R.E. 404(b) Continued -- Opportunity: F.R.E. 404(b) Continued -- Preparation: F.R.E. 404(b) Continued -- Absence of Mistake or Accident: F.R.E. 404(b) Continued -- IV. Special Rules for Sexual Assaults and Related Offenses -- The "Rape Shield": The Common Law and F.R.E. 412 -- The Wide-Open Admissibility of Sexual Misconduct Against Sexual Offense Defendants: F.R.E. 413 through 415 -- V. Procedural Issues Raised by Similar Acts Evidence -- The Coverage of F.R.E. 404(b) -- The Standard of Proof for 404(b): Evidence to "Support a Finding": F.R.E. 104(b) -- Acquittal as Not Excluding 404(b) Evidence -- VI. Character and Similar-Acts Evidence in Civil Cases -- Similar Acts Evidence in Civil Cases: F.R.E. 404(b) -- Substantive Use of Character-Propensity Not Allowed in Civil Cases: F.R.E. 404(a)(1) and (a)(2) -- These Civil Case Rules Applied to Negligence Cases. ; VII. Habit and Routine Practice: F.R.E. 406 -- VIII. Character as an "Essential Element" and the Like: F.R.E. 405(b) and Related Notions -- IX. Credibility as Affected by the Witness' Character -- Impeachment by Opinion, Reputation, Criminal Conviction, and Bad Acts: F.R.E. 608 and 609 -- Character Impeachment by Opinion or Reputation Evidence: F.R.E. 608(a) -- Character Impeachment by Criminal Convictions: F.R.E. 609 -- F.R.E. 609: The Current Rule -- Impeachment by Non-Convicted-For Misconduct "Probative of Untruthfulness": F.R.E. 608(b) -- Character or Propensity for Incredibility of Victim and Perpetrator in Sex Cases -- X. Some Recurring Themes Cutting Across This Entire Propensity Chapter -- Balancing and Instructions -- Remedies for Introduction of Impermissible Propensity Evidence: Fighting Fire With Fire -- Two Helpful Questions -- Concessions, Offers to Stipulate -- Chapter 5. Privileges -- I. Policies, Procedures, and General Principles Underlying Privileges -- Privileges as Narrow Exceptions to Everyone's Duty to Give Evidence (Testimony, Documents, Etc.) -- Policies Underlying Privileges -- Common Themes Concerning Assertion and Waiver of Privilege -- The General Concept of Confidentiality: Third Persons as an Illustration -- The General Concept of "Communication" -- The Benefits of Privileges Versus Their Costs: An Unknowable Balance -- II. Privileges Under the F.R.E.: State Rules or Federal Common Law: F.R.E. 501 -- State Privilege Law as Applicable in Some Federal Cases -- Evolution of a "Common Law" of Federal Privileges Under Rule -- III. Attorney-Client Privilege -- Definition and Limits of Attorney-Client Privilege -- Attorney-Client Privilege in a Corporate Setting -- Assertion and Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege -- Other Common Attorney-Client Privilege Issues. ; Work Product Protection as Distinguished From Attorney-Client Privilege -- Refreshing Recollection With Privileged Information: The Potential for Waiver -- IV. Marital Privileges: Two Separate Privileges Distinguished -- The "Confidential Communications" Privilege in the Marital Context -- The "Adverse Spousal Testimony" Privilege (as Distinct From the Communications Privilege) -- The Adverse Spousal Testimony Privilege: Who Holds It? -- V. Physician-Patient and Psychotherapist-Patient Privileges -- Definition of the Physician-Patient Privilege -- Exceptions and Limits -- Evolution or Adoption of a Psychotherapist Privilege and Its Limits -- VI. Other Claimed Privileges, Established or Not -- VII. Governmental Privileges -- Policies Underlying Required Reports Privileges -- Coverage and Limits of Required Report Privileges -- Governmental Privileges for State and Military Secrets, Informers, Intra-Agency Communications, Etc. -- VIII. The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination -- Definition of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination -- Limits, Exceptions, and Waiver of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination -- IX. Exclusionary Rules Premised on Deterrence Rationales -- Illegally Seized Evidence -- Evidence Obtained as a Result of Other Misconduct -- X. Rules That Prevent Invocation of Privilege From Implying Guilt or Fault -- Chapter 6. Witnesses: Competency, Examination, and Impeachment -- Introduction: The Order of Presentation at Trial: Examinations, Arguments, and Charge (Jury Instructions) -- I. Incompetency (or Disqualification) of Witnesses -- General Rules of Witness Competency: From Common Law to F.R.E. 601 -- "Dead Man's Rules" Under State Law -- The Competency of Jurors to Impeach Their Verdicts: F.R.E. 606(b) -- The Competency of Hypnotically Refreshed Testimony -- II. Impeachment: Some General Principles. ; Who Can Impeach Whom, and When?: Common Law and F.R.E. 607.
• Sommario/riassunto: This succinct overview presents accurate law, policy, analysis, and insights into the evidentiary process.
• Titolo autorizzato: Evidence in a Nutshell
• ISBN: 1-62810-620-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136683503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Nutshell series.