Carlsons' Guide to Evidence Authentication: Essential Foundations for Georgia Advocates

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Carlsons’ Guide is a concise, streamlined companion to Carlson on Evidence. Designed to go to court, Carlsons’ Guide features an alphabetical organization and is structured by key evidence terms. Carlsons’ Guide focuses on succinct analysis of crucial evidence concepts under Georgia’s current Evidence Code and the Federal Rules of Evidence.

For a host of vital evidentiary concerns, Carlsons’ Guide provides authentication fundamentals, sample evidentiary foundations, exemplary applications, critical case precedent, and practical “Q&A’s.” Even with its more compact size, Carlsons’ Guide is thoroughly researched, delivering the type of incisive interpretation and guidance users of Carlson on Evidence have come to expect for years.

Carlsons’ Guide addresses analyzes both Georgia and federal evidence authority pertaining to the subjects Carlsons’ Guide addresses. Carlsons’ Guide accordingly adheres to the declared intention of Georgia’s General Assembly “to adopt the Federal Rules of Evidence” when enacting Georgia’s current, 2013 Evidence Code. Georgia appellate decisions have likewise directed judges and attorneys to consult federal opinions, along with Georgia cases under Georgia's current Evidence Code, when arguing evidentiary principles, making Carlsons’ Guide a highly useful asset for Georgia’s bench and bar.

Just some of the subject matter examined in Carlsons’ Guide includes:

• Admissions;
• Best and Secondary Evidence;
• Business Records;
• Character and Reputation: Truthfulness;
• Experiments and Demonstrations;
• Habit or Custom;
• Insurance Information;
• Motions in Limine;
• Opinion by Lay and Expert Witness;
• Prior Impeaching Statements;
• Summaries; and
• Uncharged Misconduct.

Carlsons’ Guide is primarily aimed towards Georgia lawyers and judges who seek critical authority to quickly resolve evidence disputes in Georgia's state and federal courts. Given the high-quality content presented in Carlsons’ Guide, trial and appellate jurists and advocates who practice outside of Georgia will also benefit from Carlsons’ Guide.
Keep on the cutting edge of Georgia authentication and foundation law! Make sure the latest edition of Carlsons’ Guide is in your trial notebook, appellate binder, and law library.

The previous edition's ISBN is 9781663397126.

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