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CRIMINAL TRIAL EVIDENCE - VOLUME 1 OF 5.: From the First Motion to the Last Appeal — Volume One: THE RULES AND THE BURDEN - Softcover

Buch 1 von 2: CRIMINAL TRIAL EVIDENCE

HARTMAN, DAVE F.

 
9798192221396: CRIMINAL TRIAL EVIDENCE - VOLUME 1 OF 5.: From the First Motion to the Last Appeal — Volume One: THE RULES AND THE BURDEN

Inhaltsangabe

What counts as evidence and what does not. Who carries the burden of proof and what that burden actually requires. How the rules of evidence are built and how to find your own state's version of any rule in this book. Relevance and the balancing test that excludes more evidence than any other rule in the code. The ban on proving guilt by character, and how to fight an other-acts offer. And the whole law of disclosure — what the prosecution must turn over, when, and what to do when it does not.

Written for three readers at once: the person facing a charge, the defense lawyer who needs a fast organized reference, and the advocate or family member helping without a law license. Every rule is quoted exactly as written and then restated in plain language. Every case carries its full citation and an explanation of how the defense actually uses it.

This volume includes fill-in record-audit worksheets, a forms and motions library, a glossary, a master action-item checklist, a complete table of authorities, and six separate indexes — including a trigger-phrase index organized by what a prosecutor actually says out loud. Every index covers all five volumes of the set, so a reader holding one volume can find anything in the whole work.

The Federal Rules of Evidence are quoted as amended to December 1, 2025, including new Rule 107 on illustrative aids.

This book is information about the law, not legal advice.

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