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How to Prepare for Your First Mock Trial

Jonathan Leach LLC

This includes case briefs, witness statements, exhibits, and relevant statutes or legal precedents. Summarize the facts, jot down key points from witness statements, and organize notes for easy reference later. Then, clarify the burden of proof for each side. Plan your direct and cross-examinations of witnesses.

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The Judge's Factfinding Rule (In Jury Trials)

Evidence at Trial

A preliminary fact is “a fact upon the existence or nonexistence of which depends the admissibility or inadmissibility of evidence.” Examples of preliminary facts include the qualification of a witness, the existence of a privilege, and the admission of evidence. ” Cal. Code § 400. See e.g. , Cal.

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Federal Rule of Evidence 702: A Useful Rule (When It's Followed)

Evidence at Trial

What is inadmissible character evidence (Rule 404(a)) to one judge might be admissible "other acts" evidence (Rule 404(b)) to another. But since the 2000 amendment, some courts have ignored Rule 702's requirements and read into the rule a presumption of admissibility. at 596 (emphasis added).

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The Rise of “Post-Truth” Litigation: ALM’s Isha Marathe on How Deep Fakes Threaten the Legal System (TGIR Ep. 209)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

So, you know, what steps do you think can be done on these things as well? Isha Marathe 21:32 I really think that starting education, or Hurley and I know, that’s always like an easy, just like an easy thing to say, because you can’t really touch it. I mean, do you have any thoughts on that?