Author: John Barkai

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-18

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13:

Updated in January 2022, the Vermont Rules of Evidence Handbook with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations (6" x 9") was designed to be brought to court and be at your side in the office. The "added value" to this book is a 16 page section on making and responding to common objections (including a discussion of the 15 most common objections and a list of 60 common trial objections) and over 60 pages on evidentiary foundations and impeachment - including 25 examples of foundations for introducing physical, electronic, hearsay, and social media evidence, a discussion on differing standards for authenticating digital evidence, and sample impeachment transcripts. The author is a former Detroit criminal trial lawyer, a full-time law professor for over 45 years, and a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii for over 40 years. His students, under his supervision, at Wayne State and Hawaii have represented real clients in real cases every year he has been teaching. He has taught evidence since 1981 and has been the Director, and now Co-Director, of the Law School's Clinical Program since 1978. He has been a member of the Hawaii Supreme Court's Standing Committee on the Rules of Evidence since 1993. For the past 48 years, he has taught a criminal clinic in which his students try traffic and minor criminal cases under the state student practice rule.