MICHIGAN RULES OF EVIDENCE HANDBOOK with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations

By: John Barkai

Updated in Jan. 2024 with restyled rules patterned after the Federal Rules of Evidence. The Michigan Rules of Evidence Handbook (6" x 9") was designed to be brought to court and be at your side in the office. This copy of the Michigan rules "added value" is a 16-page section on making and responding to common objections (including over 15 pages on 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. The author is a former Detroit criminal trial lawyer, a full-time law professor for 50 years - 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. For the past 50 years, he has taught a criminal clinic in which his students try traffic and minor criminal cases under the state student practice rule. He has published over 100 evidence handbooks similar to this one for all 50 states as well as over 30 other jurisdictions from Bangladesh to the United Kingdom. He also has evidence and negotiation & ADR cartoon books on Amazon as well as a book on effective communication for negotiation and mediation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08BRKDYHJ
• ISBN13: 9798647526168
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 133 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"