Understanding criminal evidence
Subtitle: a case method approach
By: Samuel P. Newton, Teresa L. Welch
Contributors: Welch, Teresa L.
Series: Aspen college series
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; Aspen Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9781454802259
Subjects: Criminal Evidence; Burden of proof
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why and how we have rules of evidence; title: The stages of a criminal case and how to read the legal documents associated with a  criminal case; title: Burden of proof and alternatives to formal proof : judicial notice, presumptions, inferences, and stipulations; title: Relevance : probative value and materiality and exclusion of relevant evidence; title: Constitutional exclusion of evidence; title: Character evidence; title: Privileges; title: Witnesses and competency; title: Opinions, experts, and scientific evidence; title: Examination, impeachment, and  rehabilitation of witnesses; title: Hearsay and hearsay exceptions; title: Authentication, identification, exhibits, and the best evidence rule.