Evidentiary Foundations

Posted on April 15, 2008 by patrickgavin

Imwinkelried, Edward J. Evidentiary Foundations.Newwark, N.J.: LexisNexis, 2005.


Folks seeking a realistic glimpse at trial practice will be pleased with Imwinkelried’s Evidentiary Foundations. A gnawing terror of new trial attorneys is that they will be caught off-guard by an objection—that they will blank out, totally space and wind up standing there deer-like, gazing hopelessly into the headlights of crushing defeat. Evidentiary Foundations alleviates these fears by presenting realistic scripts for moving things into evidence. The end result is a fantastic tool for methodically working through evidence problems. It also provides a window onto a landscape seldom seen on TV: the specific problems associated with things offered to prove facts. Fascinating and surprisingly readable, the text also has value as an accessible primer on our basic societal values regarding how something is impartially determined to be real and to have actually happened.

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2 Responses

  1. steven markowitz, on May 4th, 2008 at 7:38 pm Said:

    Accurate review. I think everyone who practices in a courtroom should have this volume on their desk. I keep a copy of a “foundational script” in my trial notebook for each item I plan to offer into evidence . One less thing to worry about when the bell rings.

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  2. Cuspid, on June 19th, 2008 at 1:50 am Said:

    Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.

    cheers, Cuspid.

    Reply

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