California Evidence Code Handbook with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations

Author: John Barkai
Publication date : December 15, 2020
Language : English
Print length : 251 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8652694395
Item Weight : 13.4 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.57 x 9 inches
Updated in Jan. 2025. Includes amendments to sections 1106 and 1157 for Jan. 1, 2025.
Previous Amendments: Sections 801.1, 1156.5, 1227, and 1285 as of Jan. 1, 2024. sections 351.3., 351.4, 352.2, 782, 782.1, 1010, 1036.2, 1045, 1103, 107, and 157.7 in 2022 and 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 a unique value compared to other California Evidence Code books.
Professor Barkai is a former Detroit Michigan criminal trial lawyer, a fulltime law professor for more than 50 years - a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii for 45 years and taught at Wayne State University for 5 years. 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. He has a B.B.A, M.B.A, and J.D, all from the University of Michigan. 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 135 evidence handbooks for all 50 U.S. states, territories, and affiliated jurisdictions, the federal and military rules of evidence, Asian, South Asian, Pacific Island and African countries, Australian states, Canadian provinces, and the United Kingdom. This handbook, and other similar handbooks, were inspired by handbooks he created in 2019 for a workshop for Pacific Island Judges from American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap. He has also published two cartoon captioning contest books on the topics of trial evidence and negotiations & ADR. And don’t miss his book on breaking impasses in negotiation and mediation, called Negotiation and Mediation Communication Gambits for Breaking Impasses and More.