First Assignment Spring 2021
Evidence
LAW 661 Section 61
David Neel
Assignment details
First assignment for my Evidence class is:
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. 75-84, 87-96, 100-01; 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; Hypotheticals 1-4