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EVIDENCE FOR THE TRIAL LAWYER with Professor Faust F. Rossi DVD Seminar (R80-0731)EVIDENCE FOR THE TRIAL LAWYER with Professor Faust F. Rossi DVD Seminar (R80-0731)
$235.00

WVCLE is proud to present "Evidence for the Trial Lawyer" featuring Professor Faust F. Rossi, a national evidence expert. 
 
I.    Objections, Offers of Proof and Foundations
  • How timely and specific must objections be
  • Use of motions in limine
  • Preliminary fact questions
  • Doctrine of limited admissibility
  • The rule of completeness

II.   RELEVANCE: Its Definition and Limitations

  • Logical and legal relevance: Rules 401, 402 and 403
  • Background facts
  • Effect of stipulations
  • Subsequent remedial measures

III.  WITNESS Examination

  • The difference between refreshing and recorded recollection
  • Impeachment by contradiction - collateral matters
  • Limitations on impeachment of own witness
  • Prior convictions to impeach the corporation
  • Impeaching the hearsay declarant
  • The missing witness presumption
  • Summation comment on witness testimony
  • Sequestration of witnesses
  • Summaries of witness testimony

IV.  EXPERT Witnesses

  • History: periods of liberal admissibility; retrenchment and uncertainty
  • The subject matter of expert testimony
  • Proper basis for expert opinion
  • Foundation formalities
  • Ultimate issue testimony
  • Pretrial discovery of the expert
  • The Daubert - Joiner - Kumho revolution
  • The impact of amendments to Federal Rule 702 and 703 criteria for admissibility of expert testimony
  • Learned treatises

V.   Hearsay

  • Definition: what it is and what it isn’t
  • Privity admissions
  • Statement against interest
  • Prior consistent statements
  • Public records
  • Residual hearsay exception
  • Confrontation: Crawford and its progeny
(Includes DVD seminar and 388 pages of written material on a word-searchable CD)
 
This seminar is worth 6.3 WV MCLE credits.
 
DVD's must be returned within three weeks from date of mailing. An overdue fee of $10.00 per week will be charged for DVD's not returned within three weeks.