Evidence
LAW 661 Section 61
David Neel
Required Text:
EVIDENCE
Author: PARK
ISBN: 978-1609301385
Publisher: FOUND; Edition: 12
First Assignment:
Making The Record, Trial Objections
Read Chapter One of the Casebook during the first half of the semester. This assignment will be relevant to class discussion, but will not be discussed on a page-by-page basis.
Relevancy and Its Counterweights
1. Casebook, pp. 80-100[except for “The Judgment of Solomon”]; Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) 401-03 in Appendix A and related notes/history in Appendix B; Questions 1 and 2 on p. 100; Hart and McNaughton, Evidence and Inference; James, Relevancy, Probability and the Law; Note, Assessing the Entire Body of Evidence; McCormick excerpt on relevancy; Knapp v. State; Sherrod v. Berry; Old Chief v. United States; Ballou v. Henri Studios, Inc.
Attached is the class syllabus.