In this valuable tool for litigators, the authors provide a comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide to the Federal Rules of Evidence and their state counterparts. They explore a wide range of applications that are difficult or important in practice and suggest new approaches to surmount challenges. They provide practical, expert guidance on such crucial issues as: New standards governing the admissibility of scientific evidence
-- Testimony on social frameworks and syndromes
-- The Confrontation Clause and the admissibility of hearsay
-- Admissibility of prior offenses
-- The Rape Shield provision
-- Refreshing witnesses' memories
-- Repair and rehabilitation of impeached witnesses
-- Non-conviction misconduct
-- How a privilege must be claimed and how it can be waived
-- The scope of professional, familial, and governmental evidentiary privileges.For each case cited you'll find a two-sentence summary, so you can quickly and effortlessly find those cases most relevant to the issues you're researching.
