Examples & Explanations for California Evidence

by Goodman, Chris Chambers

• ISBN13: 9798892073622
• ISBN10: 8892073621
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-01-24
• Publisher: Aspen Publishing

Summary

A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples & Explanations (E&E) series provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures. Each E&E offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis.

Here’s why you need an E&E to help you study throughout the semester:

• Clear explanations of each class topic, in a conversational, funny style.
• Features hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with corresponding analysis so you can use them during the semester to test your understanding, and again at exam time to help you review.
• It offers coverage that works with ALL the major casebooks, and suits any class on a given topic.

The Examples & Explanations series has been ranked the most popular study aid among law students because it is equally as helpful from the first day of class through the final exam.

New to the Third Edition:

• More real-world hypotheticals, based on recent California court cases.
• Updated flowcharts and graphics.
• Expanded section on the Confrontation Clause, incorporating new USSCT authorities.
• New section on the racialization of character evidence and prohibitions on creative expressions.
• Updates from the USSCT on expert testimony and Sanchez error.
• New notes on the implications of AI on select evidentiary issues.

Table of Contents

Summary of Contents

Contents 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Chapter 1 Introduction to Evidence, Relevance, and Prejudice 
Chapter 2 The Character Evidence Exclusion Rules
Chapter 3 Other Policy Exclusions for Relevant Evidence 
Chapter 4 The Hearsay Rule 
Chapter 5 The Confrontation Clause and Unavailability 
Chapter 6 Hearsay Exceptions That Apply Only When the Declarant Is Unavailable 
Chapter 7 Hearsay Exceptions: Party Admissions and Prior Statements of Witnesses 
Chapter 8 Other Hearsay Exceptions 
Chapter 9 Witness Testimony Foundations 
Chapter 10 Opinion Testimony: Lay and Expert 
Chapter 11 The Burden of Proof, Presumptions, and Judicial Notice 
Chapter 12 Authentication and the Secondary Evidence Rule 
Chapter 13 Introduction to Privileges; Professional Relationship Privileges
Chapter 14 Personal, Relationship, Counseling, and Other Privileges 
Conclusion 

Table of Hearsay Exceptions with Crossover to the Federal Rules of Evidence 
Index