Evidence: Cases and Materials

by Waltz, Jon R.

• ISBN13: 9781566627658
• ISBN10: 1566627656
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Foundation Pr

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION	v	(12)
TABLE OF CASES	xvii	(4)
TABLE OF FEDERAL EVIDENCE RULES	xxi	(2)
TABLE OF CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE CODE SECTIONS	xxiii
CHAPTER I Making the Record	1	(62)
CHAPTER II An Introduction to Relevance	63	(25)
A. Relevance to What?	64	(5)
The Judgement of Solomon	64	(1)
Hart and McNaughton, Evidence and Interference in the Law	64	(2)
James, Relevancy, Probability and the Law	66	(3)
B. Relevance and Inference	69	(4)
Morgan, Basic Problems of Evidence	69	(1)
McCormick's Handbook on the Law of Evidence	70	(1)
Knapp v. State	71	(2)
C. Probative Value Versus Prejudicial Effect	73	(15)
Old Chief v. United States	73	(10)
Ballou v. Henri Studios, Inc.	83	(5)
CHAPTER III The Hearsay Rule	88	(272)
A. Rationale and Meaning: Definitions	89	(47)
State v. English	90	(2)
Tribe, Triangulating Hearsay	92	(3)
McCormick's Handbook on the Law of Evidence	95	(1)
Estate of Murdock	96	(1)
Subramaniam v. Public Prosecutor	97	(1)
Vinyard v. Vinyard Funeral Home, Inc	98	(1)
Johnson v. Misericordia Community Hospital	99	(2)
Ries Biologicals, Inc. v. Bank of Santa Fe	101	(1)
Strahorn, A Reconsideration of the Hearsay Rule and Admissions	102	(1)
Fun-Damental Too, Ltd. v. Gemmy Industries Corp.	102	(2)
United States v. Hernandez	104	(2)
United States v. Zenni	106	(4)
Note	110	(1)
Commonwealth v. Knapp	111	(1)
Morton, The Rothschilds	112	(1)
McCormick, The Borderland of Hearsay	113	(2)
Silver v. New York Central Railroad	115	(1)
Morgan, Basic Problems of Evidence	116	(1)
United States v. Jaramillo-Suarez	117	(2)
United States v. Rhodes	119	(1)
Lilly, An Introduction to the Law of Evidence	120	(1)
United States v. Brown	121	(2)
Buck v. State	123	(5)
Parrot May Have the Answer to a Killing	128	(1)
Conversations With a Gorilla	129	(1)
City of Webster Groves v. Quick	130	(1)
Morgan, Hearsay and Non-Hearsay	131	(5)
B. Exceptions and Exemptions	136	(173)
1. Dying Declarations	136	(1)
Cairns, Law and the Social Sciences	136	(1)
King John	136	(1)
The Bedside of Lope De Vega	137	(1)
Soles v. State	137	(3)
Kaplan, Of Mabrus and Zorgs--An Essay in Honor of David Louisell	140	(4)
2. Spontaneous and Contemporaneous Exclamations	144	(1)
Hutchins & Slesinger, Some Observations on the Law of Evidence	144	(4)
Truck Insurance Exchange v. Michling	148	(2)
Booth v. State	150	(8)
Lira v. Albert Einstein Medical Center	158	(2)
State v. Jones	160	(5)
3. Admissions	165	(1)
Reed v. McCord	165	(1)
Note	166	(1)
United States v. Hoosier	167	(2)
La Buy, Jury Instructions in Federal Criminal Cases	169	(1)
Stephen Birmingham, "Our Crowd"	169	(1)
State v. Carlson	170	(4)
La Buy, Jury Instructions in Federal Criminal Cases	174	(1)
Mahlandt v. Wild Canid Survival & Research Center, Inc.	175	(4)
Big Mack Trucking Co., Inc. v. Dickerson	179	(4)
Sabel v. Mead Johnson & Co.	183	(2)
United States v. DiDomenico	185	(1)
United States v. Goldberg	186	(1)
United States v. Doerr	187	(3)
Bourjaily v. United States	190	(5)
4. Former Testimony	195	(1)
Travelers Fire Insurance Co. v. Wright	195	(4)
Note--Issue Preclusion	199	(1)
Note on the Concept of Predecessor in Interest	200	(1)
United States v. Salerno	201	(6)
5. Declarations Against Interest	207	(1)
G.M. McKelvey Co. v. General Casualty Co. of America	207	(1)
United States v. Barrett	208	(9)
6. State of Mind	217	(1)
Adkins v. Brett	217	(4)
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hillmon	221	(3)
Shepard v. United States	224	(4)
United States v. Pheaster	228	(6)
Zippo Manufacturing Co. v. Rogers Imports, Inc.	234	(6)
7. Medical Diagnosis or Treatment	240	(3)
8. Prior Identification	243	(1)
Weinstein's Evidence	243	(1)
United States v. Owens	244	(4)
9. Past Recollection Recorded	248	(1)
Baker v. State	248	(6)
Adams v. The New York Central Railroad Co.	254	(5)
Note	259	(1)
10. Business and Public Records	259	(1)
Maryland--District of Columbia--Virginia Criminal Practice Institute Trial Manual	259	(1)
Johnson v. Lutz	260	(3)
Dean Jerome Prince, "The Hearsay Rule" In Trial Evidence	263	(2)
United States v. Duncan	265	(2)
Williams v. Alexander	267	(4)
Peritz, Computer Data and Reliability: A Call for Authentication of Business Records Under the Federal Rules of Evidence	271	(2)
Hahnemann University Hospital v. Dudnick	273	(3)
Palmer v. Hoffman	276	(2)
Lewis v. Baker	278	(3)
Yates v. Bair Transport, Inc.	281	(3)
Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey	284	(6)
United States v. Oates	290	(7)
United States v. Grady	297	(3)
11. Miscellaneous Exceptions	300	(1)
Treatises and Other Professional Literature Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination	301	(2)
McCormick's Handbook of the Law of Evidence	303	(1)
McCormick's Handbook of the Law of Evidence	304	(5)
C. The Future of Hearsay	309	(51)
McCormick, Law and the Future: Evidence	310	(1)
Turbyfill v. International Harvester Co.	311	(1)
United States v. Dent	312	(9)
Ohio v. Roberts	321	(5)
Lilly, An Introduction to the Law of Evidence	326	(3)
United States v. Inadi	329	(5)
Bourjaily v. United States	334	(1)
Idaho v. Wright	335	(6)
White v. Illinois	341	(6)
Chambers v. Mississippi	347	(9)
Note	356	(1)
Williams, The Proof of Guilt	357	(1)
Green v. Georgia	357	(3)
CHAPTER IV A Return to Relevance	360	(108)
A. Probabilistic Evidence	361	(14)
People v. Collins	361	(7)
Note	368	(2)
Kammer v. Young	370	(5)
B. Character, Habit, and Custom	375	(66)
1. Character in Issue	375	(1)
Cleghorn v. New York Central & H. River Ry. Co.	375	(1)
Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination	376	(2)
2. Character as Circumstantial Evidence	378	(1)
Michelson v. United States	378	(9)
Camus, The Stranger	387	(1)
A.L.I., Model Penal Code	388	(1)
Maryland--District of Columbia--Virginia Criminal Practice Institute Trial Manual	388	(1)
Theodore Roosevelt as Character Witness	389	(4)
McCormick's Handbook of the Law of Evidence	393	(4)
United States v. Carrillo	397	(4)
United States v. Beasley	401	(8)
United States v. Cunningham	409	(3)
Tucker v. State	412	(1)
Huddleston v. United States	413	(5)
James and Dickinson, Accident Proneness and Accident Law	418	(1)
Perrin v. Anderson	419	(4)
Note	423	(1)
Park, Leonard & Goldberg, Evidence Law	424	(3)
Note on Rape Shield Legislation	427	(1)
State v. Cassidy	428	(4)
Olden v. Kentucky	432	(3)
Note	435	(1)
United States v. Platero	435	(6)
C. Similar Happenings	441	(7)
Simon v. Kennebunkport	441	(3)
Halloran v. Virginia Chemicals Inc.	444	(3)
Morris, Studies in the Law of Torts	447	(1)
D. Subsequent Precautions	448	(10)
Tuer v. McDonald	448	(9)
Maine Rules of Evidence	457	(1)
E. Offers in Compromise	458	(10)
Davidson v. Prince	458	(3)
Keeton, Trial Tactics and Methods	461	(2)
Ando v. Woodberry	463	(3)
Note	466	(2)
CHAPTER V Impeachment and Rehabilitation; Cross-Examination	468	(84)
A. The Rule Against Impeaching One's Own Witness and Other Forensic Problems	469	(13)
Kaplan and Waltz, The Trial of Jack Ruby	469	(1)
Mathew, Forensic Fables by O	470	(3)
Mathew, Forensic Fables by O	473	(1)
Keeton, Trial Tactics and Methods	473	(3)
Maguire, Evidence: Common Sense and Common Law	476	(1)
United States v. Hogan	477	(5)
B. Methods of Impeachment	482	(70)
1. Impeachment by Contradiction	482	(1)
State v. Oswalt	482	(2)
United States v. Copelin	484	(6)
2. Character of the Witness	490	(1)
a. Prior Bad Acts	490	(1)
United States v. Owens	490	(3)
Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination	493	(4)
House, Great Trials of Famous Lawyers	497	(1)
Note: Extrinsic Evidence Under Fed. R. Evid. 608(b)	498	(2)
United States v. Drake	500	(3)
b. Prior Convictions	503	(1)
United States v. Sanders	504	(5)
Note	509	(1)
United States v. Wong	510	(3)
United States v. Brackeen	513	(4)
Luce v. United States	517	(3)
c. Bad Reputation for Truth and Veracity	520	(1)
Mathes and Devitt, Federal Jury Practice	520	(1)
3. Psychiatric Condition	521	(1)
United States v. Lindstrom	521	(3)
1950 Annual Survey of American Law Evidence	524	(4)
Judson Falknor
4. Prior Statements to Impeach or Rehabilitate	528	(1)
Coles v. Harsch	528	(3)
Goldstein, Trial Technique	531	(1)
Park, Leonard, & Goldberg, Evidence Law	531	(2)
Morgan, Hearsay Dangers and the Application of the Hearsay Concept	533	(1)
Tome v. United States	534	(11)
5. Bias	545	(1)
United States v. Abel	545	(5)
Waltz, Introduction to Criminal Evidence	550	(2)
CHAPTER VI Confidentiality and Confidential Communication	552	(83)
A. The Attorney-Client Privilege	553	(29)
Jeremy Bentham, 5 Rationale of Judicial Evidence	553	(1)
Louisell, Confidentiality, Conformity and Confusion: Privileges in Federal Court Today	553	(3)
United States v. Woodruff	556	(3)
Upjohn Co. v. United States	559	(5)
Note on Federal Work Product Doctrine	564	(1)
City and County of San Francisco v. Superior Court	565	(3)
Clark v. State	568	(8)
United States v. Zolin	576	(6)
B. Physician-Patient and Psychotherapist-Patient Privileges	582	(25)
Prink v. Rockefeller Center Inc.	582	(3)
Jaffee v. Redmond	585	(14)
Menendez v. Superior Court	599	(8)
C. The Marital Privileges	607	(6)
Trammel v. United States	607	(6)
D. Miscellaneous Privileges	613	(22)
Church & State in the United States	613	(2)
Note, Functional Overlap Between the Lawyer and Other Professionals: Its Implications for the Privileged Communications Doctrines	615	(1)
In re Grand Jury	616	(19)
CHAPTER VII Governmental Privileges	635	(29)
United States v. Reynolds	635	(5)
Evidentiary Privilege of "State Secrets" In Contract Action	640	(2)
United States v. Nixon	642	(8)
Note	650	(1)
Roviaro v. United States	650	(5)
McCray v. Illinois	655	(5)
Non-Disclosure of Complainants' Names in School Desegregation Cases: Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964	660	(4)
CHAPTER VIII Writings	664	(15)
A. The Best Evidence Rule	665	(8)
McCormick, Evidence	665	(1)
Sirico v. Cotto	665	(2)
Case Note	667	(1)
Herzig v. Swift & Co.	668	(1)
Meyers v. United States	669	(2)
People v. Enskat	671	(2)
B. Authentication	673	(6)
McCormick, Evidence	673	(1)
United States v. Dockins	674	(2)
Note	676	(1)
First State Bank of Denton v. Maryland Casualty Co.	676	(2)
Note	678	(1)
CHAPTER IX Competency of Witnesses	679	(34)
Hill v. Skinner	679	(2)
Tracy, Handbook of the Law of Evidence	681	(5)
New York Civ. Prac. Act & Rules, XXX 4519	686	(2)
State Ex Rel. Collins v. Superior Court	688	(11)
Rock v. Arkansas	699	(8)
Tanner v. United States	707	(6)
CHAPTER X Judicial Notice	713	(23)
A. Adjudicative Facts	714	(10)
Varcoe v. Lee	714	(4)
State v. Lawrence	718	(5)
Comment, Judicial Notice by Appellate Courts of Facts and Foreign Laws Not Brought to the Attention of the Trial Court	723	(1)
Lilly, An Introduction to the Law of Evidence	723	(1)
B. Legislative Facts	724	(3)
McCormick's Handbook of the Law of Evidence	724	(3)
C. Jury Notice	727	(9)
Higgins v. Los Angeles Gas & Electric Co.	730	(6)
CHAPTER XI The Burden of Proof and Presumptions	736	(37)
A. Civil Cases	737	(26)
James, Civil Procedure	737	(4)
Smith v. Rapid Transit, Inc.	741	(1)
Hart & McNaughton, Evidence and Inference in the Law	742	(1)
Dyer v. MacDougall	743	(7)
Maguire, Evidence: Common Sense and Common Law	750	(3)
Legille v. Dann	753	(3)
Note	756	(1)
Degnan, Syllabus on California Evidence Code	757	(3)
Atkinson v. Hall	760	(3)
B. Criminal Cases	763	(10)
People v. Roder	763	(10)
CHAPTER XII Opinion, Expertise and Experts; Scientific and Demonstrative Evidence	773	(184)
A. Opinion, Expertise and Experts	774	(67)
Maguire, Evidence: Common Sense and Common Law	774	(2)
Commonwealth v. Holden	776	(2)
Government of the Virgin Islands v. Knight	778	(2)
Waltz, Introduction to Criminal Evidence	780	(11)
Waltz & Inbau, Medical Jurisprudence	791	(1)
Note: Objections to the Form of Expert Testimony	792	(8)
State v. Odom	800	(6)
United States v. Scop	806	(5)
Ingram v. McCuiston	811	(7)
Waltz, The New Federal Rules of Evidence: An Analysis	818	(1)
Brunner v. Brown	818	(4)
United States v. Tran Trong Cuong	822	(4)
People v. Gardeley	826	(7)
Minnesota Rules of Evidence	833	(1)
United States v. Kristiansen	833	(3)
Expanded Use of Expert Witnesses Poses New Problems for Counsel	836	(5)
B. Scientific and Demonstrative Evidence	841	(116)
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	841	(8)
Kumho Tire Company, Ltd. v. Carmichael	849	(11)
United States v. Starzecpyzel	860	(14)
State v. Porter	874	(12)
United States v. Piccinonna	886	(5)
United States v. Scheffer	891	(5)
The Case Against Expert Witnesses	896	(4)
Langbein, The German Advantage in Civil Procedure	900	(1)
State v. Chapple	901	(11)
Harlan Levy, And the Blood Cried Out	912	(14)
Jonathan J. Koehler, DNA Matches and Statistics: Important Questions, Surprising Answers	926	(12)
Margaret A. Berger, Laboratory Error Seen Through the Lens of Science and Policy	938	(10)
Note	948	(1)
Houts, Photographic Misrepresentation	949	(2)
Waltz, Introduction to Criminal Evidence	951	(6)
APPENDICES	957	(356)
A. Federal Rules of Evidence for United States Courts and Magistrates	957	(32)
B. Comments to the Federal Rules of Evidence for United States Courts and Magistrates	989	(156)
C. Appendix of Deleted and Superseded Materials With Notes	1145	(38)
D. Evidence Code of the State of California	1183	(130)
INDEX	1313