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This is the reference your clients would ask you to purchase. Criminal Evidentiary Foundations tells you with precision how to lay foundations for your most critical evidence to be admitted in a criminal trial. Expert authors Edward J. Imwinkelried and Daniel D. Blinka guide you through converting abstract evidentiary doctrine into concrete lines of questioning, with phrasing of questions on direct and cross-examination explained in detail and hundreds of sample foundational questions adapted to specific criminal cases.
In this convenient single volume with a current supplement, you'll find your questions answered on witness competency, authentication, relevance, credibility, privileges, opinions, hearsay, suppression, the Best Evidence Rule, and more. Whether you are preparing for your first case or you are a seasoned veteran, this treatise will become your most indispensable tool after the Federal Rules of Evidence in your next trial.
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Featured Authors
Daniel D. Blinka
Daniel D. Blinka--Associate Professor of Law at Marquette University School of Law and former Assistant District Attorney in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
Edward J. Imwinkelried
Edward J. Imwinkelried is the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Professor of Law Emeritus at UC Davis School of Law. A nationally recognized expert on subjects such as DNA typing, forensic psychiatry, and laser techniques for fingerprint detection, Professor Imwinkelried is the author of more than 200 books and other publications. He is frequently called upon for advice on privileges and the admissibility of evidence of other crimes, and his treatise Scientific Evidence is considered authoritative. Professor Imwinkelried served as an army lawyer in the XXIV Corps and 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam in 1971-1972. He went on to become a lecturer on evidence, criminal procedure, crimes and trial advocacy in the Criminal Law Division of the Judge Advocate General's School in Virginia, then a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and Washington University before coming to UC Davis in 1985. He has also taught as a Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University, the University of Illinois, University of Houston, and University College Dublin.
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Related Procedures
Chapter 3 The Competency of Witnesses
Chapter 4 Authentication
Chapter 5 Rule 403 and Legal Relevance Limitations on Credibility Evidence
Chapter 6 Legal Relevance Limitations on Evidence that is Relevant to the Historical Merits
of the Case
Chapter 7 Privileges and Similar Doctrines
Chapter 8 The Best Evidence Rule
Chapter 9 Opinion Evidence
Chapter 10 The Hearsay Rule, Its Exemptions, and Its Exceptions
Chapter 11 Substitutes for Evidence
Chapter 12 Motions to Suppress Evidence
Index
