Criminal Evidentiary Foundations

A detailed and practical guide to getting your evidence admitted at trial, written by subject matter experts and organized in a straight-forward, convenient single volume.
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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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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