California Evidence Code Handbook with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations

Book Synopsis: Includes amendments effective Jan. 1, 2023. Recent Amendments: California Evidence Code sections 351.3., 351.4, 352.2, 782, 782.1, 1010, 1036.2, 1045, 1103, 107, and 157.7 were amended and became effective in 2022 and Jan. 2023.

The California Evidence Code Handbook (6" x 9") was designed to be brought to court and be at your side in the office. This copy of the California Evidence Code's "added value" is a 16-page section on making and responding to common objections (including the most common trial objections) and over 70 pages on evidentiary foundations and impeachment (including 25 examples of foundations for introducing physical, electronic, hearsay, and social media evidence, as well as a brief discussion on differing standards for authenticating digital evidence. Those unique sections make this handbook the best value of any California Evidence Code books.

The author is a former Detroit criminal trial lawyer, a full-time law professor for 50 years, and a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii for 45 years, and 5 years at Wayne State Law School in Detroit. 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. Since being a public defender in Detroit, for the past 50 years, he has taught a criminal clinic each semester in which his students try criminal cases under the state student practice rule. He is a member of the Hawaii Bar and has been a member of the California and Michigan Bars.