Evidence: Practice Under the Rules

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.