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Evidence Law by Leonard Niehoff
An opening chapter offers a broad conceptual framework for understanding evidence. This framework is then used throughout the text to help the reader achieve a firm grasp of the essentials: relevance, character, hearsay, impeachment, opinion, privileges, and non-conventional forms of evidence. The book also includes an appendix that explains the mechanics of finding, offering, and objecting to evidence.
Publication Date: 2016
McCormick's Evidence by Edward Imwinkelried; David Kaye; Eleanor Swift; Robert Mosteller; Kenneth Broun; George Dix
his single-volume treatise is largely free of citations to authority, but retains the most notable footnotes. Topics covered include preparing and presenting evidence, cross-examination, and the procedure for admitting and excluding evidence. Discusses privilege against self-incrimination, privilege concerning improperly obtained evidence, scientific evidence, and demonstrative evidence. Reviews authentication, the hearsay rule, burdens of proof, and presumptions. Text also identifies current issues.
Publication Date: 2020
Principles of Evidence by Daniel Capra; Stephen Saltzburg
This text examines all topics typically covered in a three- or four-hour course in evidence. Emphasis is on the Federal Rules of Evidence, now adopted in most states. The work is concise but complete. Should the reader desire additional material, ample footnotes provide easy access to leading cases, articles, and standard reference works. This volume contains dozens of illustrations, with answers, designed to make the rules come to life. The ninth edition contains the restyled rules and all the new developments on the Confrontation clause, and covers recent amendments, including those taking effect in 2019 and the 2020 amendment of Rule 404(b). Dan Capra is the reporter, Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence, and Stephen Saltzburg served as a consultant.
Publication Date: 2022
Massachusetts Materials
Massachusetts E-Discovery and Evidence (MCLE) by Daniel K. Gelb, Richard M. Gelb
This definitive guide examines the evolution of e-discovery, including the touchstone Sedona Principles for Electronic Document Production, the seminal Zubulake and Morgan Stanley cases, and much more. Metadata, technological schematics, and infrastructure are also explained in easily understood terms.
Publication Date: 2020
Massachusetts Guide to Evidence (MCLE
MCLE has published the new Massachusetts Guide to Evidence in a handy new format designed to assist lawyers in accessing and using the guide while in court. Notes are keyed directly to the section numbers, indicating whether a section is taken verbatim from or derives from a federal rule, a Massachusetts Proposed Rule of Evidence, a statute, or from the language of a specific case. In addition, MCLE's table of authorities provides full citations to the primary sources referenced by the notes, for your quick reference and easy access to the sources you need to cite.
Publication Date: 2021
Pocket Guide to Massachusetts Evidence (MCLE) by MCLE
MCLE's Pocket Guide to Massachusetts Evidence is a powerful tool for courtroom excellence, with references to the Supreme Judicial Court's Massachusetts Guide to Evidence and cutting-edge developments in the case law.
Publication Date: 2021
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Evidence Law by
An opening chapter offers a broad conceptual framework for understanding evidence. This framework is then used throughout the text to help the reader achieve a firm grasp of the essentials: relevance, character, hearsay, impeachment, opinion, privileges, and non-conventional forms of evidence. The book also includes an appendix that explains the mechanics of finding, offering, and objecting to evidence.
Evidence Law, a Student's Guide to the Law of Evidence As Applied in American Trials by
This volume can serve as background for beginning students and as a one-stop refresher for those taking advanced courses.
McCormick's Evidence by
his single-volume treatise is largely free of citations to authority, but retains the most notable footnotes. Topics covered include preparing and presenting evidence, cross-examination, and the procedure for admitting and excluding evidence. Discusses privilege against self-incrimination, privilege concerning improperly obtained evidence, scientific evidence, and demonstrative evidence. Reviews authentication, the hearsay rule, burdens of proof, and presumptions. Text also identifies current issues.
Courtroom Criminal Evidence by
Learn about the latest developments in evidence law, including evidentiary issues posed by fax and e-mail, scientific and polygraph evidence, and more.
Scientific Evidence by
A comprehensive resource for learning about the latest forensic techniques and scientific concepts used in collecting and evaluating evidence.
Exculpatory Evidence: The Accused`s Constitutional Right to Introduce Favorable Evidence by 
