Evidence

by Mueller, Christopher B.

• ISBN13: 9780735520028
• ISBN10: 073552002X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Summary

This best-selling outline - one of the most detailed on the market - leads you step-by-step through Evidence and is used alongside required course books to prepare for class and exams. The text offers: a casebook correlation chart policy, politics, and analysis incorporated in the text to help you apply and critique the rules - a feature not found in typical outlines compact and concise explanations of the law of Evidene chapter overviews that highlight key concepts examples and hypotheticals throughout the text that illustrate key points chapter review questions that reinforce understanding of the material covered exam tips that help you prepare for tests sample exam questions accompanied by model answers a summary outline of the entire book New To The Second Edition: new legislation on child witnesses' rights including alternatives to live in- court testimony important amendments To The Federal Rules of Evidence since 1997 - such as a new hearsay exception in FRE 804(b)(6); and FRE 407 which is now applicable to product liability cases

Author Biography

Christopher B. Mueller: Henry S. Lindsley Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law Laird C. Kirkpatrick: Hershner Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oregon School of Law

Table of Contents

Contents	vii
Casebook Correlation	xliii
Capsule Summary	1	(1)
Preliminary Matters: Overview of the Trial Process	1	(22)
Relevancy	23	(14)
The Definition of Hearsay	37	(38)
Hearsay Exceptions	75	(78)
Confrontation and Compulsory Process	153	(12)
Character and Habit Evidence	165	(22)
Relevancy: Specific Applications	187	(18)
Competency of Witnesses	205	(12)
Direct and Cross-Examination	217	(12)
Impeachment and Rehabilitation	229	(34)
Opinion and Expert Testimony	263	(18)
Authentication	281	(26)
Best Evidence Doctrine	307	(20)
Privileges	327	(54)
Burdens and Presumptions	381	(16)
Judicial Notice	397	(12)
Sample Exam Questions	409	(22)
Glossary	431	(18)
Table of Cases	449	(4)
Table of Statutes	453	(2)
Table of Federal Rules	455	(4)
Index	459