Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Trial Calendar and Pretrial Information Exchange
Chapter 2: Selecting a Jury
Chapter 3: Jury Note Taking and Jury Questions
Chapter 4: Opening Statement
Chapter 5: Preliminary Hearing
Chapter 6: Conditional Evidence
Chapter 7: Judicial Notice
Chapter 8: Presumptions
Chapter 9: Relevance, Exclusionary Rules, Limiting Instructions, and Stipulations
Chapter 10: Character Evidence
Chapter 11: Privileges
Chapter 12: Lack of Personal Knowledge
Chapter 13: Order of Interrogation and Presentation of Proofs
Chapter 14: Refreshing Recollection and Past Recollection Recorded
Chapter 15: Questioning and Calling of Witnesses by the Trial Judge
Chapter 16: Sequestration of Witnesses
Chapter 17: Attacking Credibility
Chapter 18: Prior Inconsistent Statement Used to Impeach the Witness
Chapter 19: Prior Inconsistent Statements Admitted for Their Truth
Chapter 20: Prior Consistent Statements and Vouching
Chapter 21: Expert Testimony
Chapter 22: Use of Depositions and Prior Testimony at Trial
Chapter 23: Use of Interrogatory Answers at Trial and Requests for Admissions
Chapter 24: Hearsay
Chapter 25: Authentication of Trial Exhibits
Chapter 26: The Parol Evidence Rule
Chapter 27: Trial Objections
Chapter 28: Closing Statement
Chapter 29: Jury Charge and Verdict Sheet
Chapter 30: Trial Motions
Chapter 31: Punitive Damages
Chapter 32: Spoliation of Evidence
Chapter 33: Offer of Judgment
Chapter 34: Video Transmission of Trial Testimony
Chapter 35: Judge Recusal
Table of Cases
Table of Rules, Statutes and Jury Instructions
Index