Florida Evidentiary Foundations

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.

The Hon. Michael J. Frank is the chief magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Prior to his judicial appointment, Judge Frank served in the U.S. Department of Justice as an Associate Deputy Attorney General and counsel to the Deputy Attorney General. He was the Justice Department's national coordinator to combat human trafficking and child exploitation crimes. Judge Frank also previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Northern District of Florida. He was assigned to the national security section and the major crimes section. Prior to that, he was a federal prosecutor in the Criminal Section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Judge Frank served as a law clerk to the Hon. Daniel A. Manion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.