Course Title
Evidence A
Professor
Cordray
First Assignment
EVIDENCE
Spring 2013
Professor Cordray
The textbook for Evidence is Learning Evidence, Second Edition, by Deborah Jones Merritt and Ric Simmons, ISBN 978-0-314-27540-0. You will not need a rules supplement.
For the first class session, please skim pages 1-39, which provide valuable background information on how evidence is used, types of evidence, the Federal Rules of Evidence, and the structure of a trial. Please also read carefully pages 40-54.
The assignments for the first week are:
M 1/7 Introduction; 1-39 (skim)
Objections; Limited Admissibility 40-54
T 1/8 Relevance; 55-68
Rule of Completeness 287-291
Th 1/10 Prejudice 69-87