Evidence

A young white officer, bedevilled by the kidnapping of his girlfriend, leads a platoon of black soldiers along with irreplaceable construction experts and equipment across guerilla-infested mountains to build a critically needed airstrip on the west side of the Isle of St. Margaret's just days from its independence from Great Britain in 1973. on the way, he shoots his sergeant major to prevent a mutiny and the failure of the mission. The mission is ultimately successful but the political leadership determines to court martial him for the “murder of a noncommissioned officer whilst on a mission under arms”. The penalty is death by firing squad. This is the story of that court martial, its breathtaking conclusion and its impact on the unification of the various peoples that make up the new nation's population.

A young white officer, bedevilled by the kidnapping of his girlfriend, leads a platoon of black soldiers along with irreplaceable construction experts and equipment across guerilla-infested mountains to build a critically needed airstrip on the west side of the Isle of St. Margaret's just days from its independence from Great Britain in 1973. on the way, he shoots his sergeant major to prevent a mutiny and the failure of the mission. The mission is ultimately successful but the political leadership determines to court martial him for the “murder of a noncommissioned officer whilst on a mission under arms”. The penalty is death by firing squad. This is the story of that court martial, its breathtaking conclusion and its impact on the unification of the various peoples that make up the new nation's population.

Inspired by problems that spring from real life, Evidence presents the intricacies of evidence law in a way that law students will find both intellectually compelling and enjoyable. The author covers materials in detail, including relevance, reliability, and privileges. Whenever possible, problems are based on facts quoted from cases or news articles, complete with citations. This fact-based approach piques student interest, causing them to ask, How would a good lawyer attack this problem rather than What is the professor driving at. Written with the belief that students typically prefer to look at the courtroom world through the criminal law lense, the casebook emphasizes the criminal context, while using civil cases when illustrating rules that apply mainly in the civil context.

Highly successful, problem-based coursebook for the basic evidence course, currently adopted at over 100 law schools. Features:

• Clear organization structured around the Federal Rules of Evidence. The basics of evidence are covered clearly and succinctly in an understandable framework
• Combines textual explanations, numerous problems, and carefully edited cases in an accessible coursebook.
• Problems are engaging and effectively teach the intricacies of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
• Case excerpting skillfully employed to include only the portions of a case relevant to the evidentiary rule being reviewed.
• The book's organization is very flexible--professors can easily restructure the material to fit the organization of their course.
• Respected and well-known author team.
• This book is currently adopted at over 100 law schools

New to the Seventh Edition:

• Adopting professors get a new, expanded DVD of movie excerpts illustrating key evidence points
• Comes with a PowerPoint package that includes the Restyled Rules, which become effective December 1, 2011
• Material on the new FRE 502 and a problem based on it.
• Discussion of the new amendment to FRE 804(b)(3).
• Supreme Court's 2011 decision on the Confrontation Clause in Michigan v. Bryant, which expands the Davis "emergency" exception
• Supreme Court's earlier decisions in Melendez-Diaz (2009) and Giles (2007), now moved from annual supplements to the main volume
• Updated references to the Restyled Rules, in which all quotations in the text use language that is common to both the Restyled Rules and the prior federal version (which remain in force in many Rules states)
• Coverage of new Rule 502 on waiver of Attorney-Client privilege and work product protection, with a new Problem 12-F (The Disclosure Was Inadvertent), providing an application the new Rule
• Replacement Problem 2-I (Raid on the Cedar Woods Apartment) illustrating the workings of FRE 104 on judge-jury responsibility
• New Problem 5-J ("I Didn't Know They Were Stolen") illustrating the Huddleston approach to applying Rule 404(b)
• A new decision illustrating the issue of authenticating recordings (the Oslund case in Chapter 13)
• Many adjustments that are responsive to extensive comments collected by the publisher and conveyed to the authors, entered in this edition in an effort to make things clearer or more complete, and sometimes shorter

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The 11th edition of this intellectually challenging casebook provides a complete overview of evidence, including key U.S. Supreme Court and other court opinions, updated information on scientific evidence, new questions and hypotheticals, and common courtroom objections.

This pamphlet, which supports any classroom text, consists of the updated Federal Rules of Evidence and materials designed to aid in understanding, construing, and applying them. The Federal Rules of Evidence have been completely restyled, effective December 1, 2011, and the pamphlet provides a side-by-side comparison of before-and-after restyling of each Evidence Rule. It also contains relevant legislative history and Committee Notes, as well as the California Rules of Evidence. This edition of the pamphlet was prepared by Professor Daniel J. Capra, the Reporter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules. Professor Capra has included his own comments on many of the Restyled Rules--based on his role as Reporter to the Restyling Project--and also includes his article on case law that diverges from the text of the Evidence Rules.

Learning Evidence engages students by offering colorful courtroom examples, excerpts from trial transcripts, and lucid explanations of each evidentiary rule. The second edition has been fully updated to reflect the emergence of electronic media, the Supreme Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence, and the restyled Federal Rules of Evidence.

The #1 study guide for Evidence is now in its Seventh Edition. Examples & Explanations: Evidence is the go-to resource for any student struggling to understand the concepts and rules of evidence as described in their casebook. The Examples & Explanations pedagogy encourages students to read the text carefully, apply what they have learned, and test their understanding of the material.

A leader in its field, Examples & Explanations: Evidence features:

• clear and concise introductions to the concepts and Rules of Evidence
• examples with questions that start out simply and gradually build in complexity
• thorough explanations of how to analyze the questions in the examples
• a "plain language" version of the Federal Rules of Evidence, complete with new amendments to the Rules
• generous use of visual aidstables and charts that illustrate key concepts

Still fewer than 350 pages, the Seventh Edition includes:

• discussion of Giles v. California, concerning Hearsay and the Confrontation Clause
• analysis of newly-adopted Rule 502, regarding inadvertent waiver of the attorney-client privilege, with a plain-language explanation in the Appendix
• a flow chart that illustrates the proper sequence of analysis for relevance and hearsay exclusions & exceptions as applied to an out-of-court statement
• a new chart that illustrates character evidence with regard to the propensity inference

Examples & Explanations: Evidence, Seventh Edition, is a current and time-proven resource that you can recommend to your students with confidence.

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The No. 1 selling study aid in the field, Evidence: Examples and Explanations is the most clear, effective and concise text available for students today. Beautifully organized, with compelling examples and questions, this ancillary delivers exactly the right level of detail for a student's first introduction to evidence law.

The Eighth Edition has been updated to reflect the newly effective restyled Federal Rules of Evidence and includes the latest U.S. Supreme Court cases. Also included is an analysis of Confrontation Clause jurisprudence. Finally, a new Appendix covers the text of the rules, with concise highlights and references to treatment of the rules in the text.

Hallmark features of Evidence: Examples and Explanations:

No. 1 selling ancillary in Evidence.

Manageable length encourages student use.

Clear, well-organized presentation of material.

Plain-language version of the Federal Rules of Evidence.

Probing questions follow each chapter and compel students to read thoroughly.

Key concepts presented in tables and charts.

Thoroughly updated, the revised Eighth Edition:

Reflects language of newly effective and restyled Federal Rules of Evidence and amendments throughout.

Analyzes the ebb and flow of Confrontation Clause jurisprudence.

Includes latest U.S. Supreme Court cases.

Adds Appendix with text of rules, concise highlights of rules, and references to treatment of each rule in the text.