First Assignment Spring 2020
Evidence
LAW 661 Section 61
David Neel
Assignment details
First assignment for Evidence:
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.
1. Casebook, pp. 75-84, 87-96, 100; Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) 401-03 in Appendix A and related notes/history in Appendix B; Hart and McNaughton, Evidence and Inference; James, Relevancy, Probability and the Law; McCormick excerpt on relevancy; Note, Assessing the Entire Body of Evidence; Knapp v. State; Sherrod v. Berry; Old Chief v. United States; Ballou v. Henri Studios, Inc.; Questions 1 and 2 on p. 100.