Military Rules of Evidence Handbook with Common Objections and Evidentiary Foundations

Download or read book Military Rules of Evidence Handbook with Common Objections and Evidentiary Foundations written by David Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: The Military Rules of Evidence Handbook (6" x 9") was designed to be brought to court or be at your side in the office or classroom. It is a complete copy of the Military Rules of Evidence with amendments through December 2019, but without the Discussion notes after various rules which are unlikely to need to be consulted in the heat of trial. The "added value" of this handbook is the 15 plus pages on common trial objections and 60 plus pages of evidentiary foundations, including for impeachment. It also briefly describes the history of the Federal Rules of Evidence, which is the basis for the Military Rules. The foundations section includes more than 25 sample foundations for the most common foundation used in the courtroom or mock trials, including foundations electronic, digital evidence such as emails, text messages, and social media sites. The primary author is a former Detroit criminal trial lawyer, a full-time clinical 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. 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 and has published rules of evidence handbooks for Hawaii and several Pacific Island jurisdictions, and is now publishing Rules of Evidence Handbooks for many states (all available exclusively on Amazon). He is also the author of Humor in Trial Evidence: Cartoon Contest Caption Winners and Challenges from My Evidence Class and Humor in Negotiations & ADR: Cartoon Contest Caption Winners from the ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine, both available on Amazon. David Nguyen is a research assistant for Professor Barkai, will receive his J.D. in 2021, and has a summer clerkship with the Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps in 2020.