This text examines all topics typically covered in a three- or four-hour course in evidence. Emphasis is on the Federal Rules of Evidence, now adopted in most states. Should the reader desire additional material, ample footnotes provide easy access to leading cases, articles, and standard reference works. The sixth edition contains the restyled rules and all the new developments on the Confrontation clause. Dan Capra is the reporter, Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence, and Steven Saltzburg served as a consultant.
R v Campbell (2007) FACTS: The defendant was charged with false imprisonment and assault against a woman with whom he had a sexual relationship. The prosecution was permitted to adduce evidence of recent crimes of violence against ...
An illustration of the application of section 74(1) may be found in R v Robertson. Robertson was charged with conspiring with Poole and Long to commit burglaries. Poole and Long pleaded guilty to relevant substantive counts of burglary, ...
He argued that Officer Moore was mistaking him for a man named David Bailey, with whom he was playing dice around the time of the sale. Mr. Copelin and his corroborating witnesses testified that they had seen Mr. Bailey repeatedly leave ...
Hallmark features of An Analytical Approach to Evidence: Text, Problems, and Cases: An opening transcript from an actual criminal law case illustrates how evidence is admitted and excluded in practice--Chapter Two on the trial process can ...
In Powell v. State,266 the accused was charged with indecency with a child. The prosecution introduced testimony from six witnesses to the effect that they too had been victims of the accused's acts, on the argument that the evidence of ...
Lowery , 6.9 n.255 Turner v . Safley , 5.3 n.267 ; 6.2 n.262 6.12 nn.26 , 169 , 195 , 263 , 430 Tornay v . United States , 6.7 nn.77,96 Torres v . INS , 5.4 n.51 Torres v . Kuzniasz , 6.12 nn.272 , 276 Torres v .
As the prosecution points out , Sullivan's direct testimony raised the issue of his credibility to the jury . Sullivan's credibility was in fact the central issue litigated in the case , as the defense presented only Sullivan and the ...
Maryland Evidence Handbook
Maryland Evidence Handbook
Evidence of Opinion and Expert Evidence